G.V.Iyer
| Ganapathi Venkatrama Iyer | |
|---|---|
| Native name | ಗಣಪತಿ ವೆಂಕಟರಮಣ ಅಯ್ಯರ್ |
| Born |
3 September 1917 Nanjanagud, Kingdom of Mysore, British India |
| Died | 21 December 2003 (aged 86) Mumbai, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Other names |
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| Occupation | Actor, film director, screenwriter |
| Known for | Sanskrit film direction |
| Notable work |
Adi Shankaracharya (1983) Bhagavad Gita (1993) Swami Vivekananda (1998) |
Ganapathi Venkataramana Iyer (3 September 1917 – 21 December 2003), popularly known as G. V. Iyer, was a well-known Indian film director and actor. He was nicknamed "Kannada Bheeshma", and was the only person who made movies in Sanskrit. His movie Adi Shankaracharya (1983) won four National Film Award, including Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Audiography. His films were well known for their spiritual themes. He was born in 1917 in Nanjanagud in Mysore district of Karnataka state in South India. His most critically acclaimed films Bhagavad Gita (1993), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and was nominated for Best Film at the Bogotá Film Festival. And Swami Vivekananda (1998), Mithun Chakraborty won national award for Best Supporting Actor.
He started his career at the age of eight when he joined the Gubbi Veeranna theatre group. His first role as an actor in cinema was in the film Radha Ramana. Besides this he acted in a number of other movies such as Mahakavi Kalidasa, Sodhari, Hemavati, Hari Bhaktha and Bedara Kannapa. He is credited with providing breaks to two of the greatest Kannada actors, Dr Raj Kumar and Narasimha Raju in the movie Bedara Kannappa. Though Raj Kumar had acted in a single scene in a movie previously, the movie Bedara Kannappa where Mr Iyer cast him as the hero is where he got his break and is regarded generally as his first movie. Iyer also produced another critically acclaimed move Vamsha Vriksha. Based on an acclaimed novel by S L Bhairappa, it was jointly directed by B V Karanth and Girish Karnad.
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