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KushiAudio HISTORY OF KANNADA CINEMA
January 29, 2014
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1913 India joined the ranks of the first few countries to have made feature films. The first full-length motion picture in India was produced by DAdasaheb Phalke, Dadasaheb is the pioneer of Indian film industry. The Film Industry in Karnataka referred as Sandalwood and as Chandanavana in Karnataka is a part of Indian cinema where films are produced in Kannada language.

A QUICK LOOK AT THE GLIMPSE OF 80 YEARS OF KANNADA CINEMA:
In 1934, the first Kannada talkie Sati Sulochana was appeared in theatres followed by Bhakta Dhruva. Both Sati Sulochana and BhaktaDhruva were major successes. Gubbi Veeranna could be considered the doyen of Kannada cinema during the mid to late forties. The rise of Dr.Rajkumar in the early 1950’s encouraged the Kannada film industry to make more historical movies. Bedara Kannappa(1954) was the first Kannada movie which completed 365 days at the theatres and it received a letter of appreciation from the central government.

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The late 60’s saw the emergence of famous Kumar trios Rajakumar, Kalyankumar, Udaykumar who ruled the industry from 60’s to 70’s with majority of the films during this decade were either mythological or historical in nature. Dr Rajkumar considered as the greatest actor that Kannada cinema has seen mainly because of the ease with which he enacted historical, mythological, social, adventurous and comedic roles.

Top actress:
B.Sarojadevi, Arathi, Bharathi, Jayanthi, Manjula, Kalpana, Bhavya, Sudharani, Malashri, Shruthi, Geetha, Prema, Ramya, Rakshitha.

Top Directors:
Girish Kasaravalli, Puttanna Kanagal, G.V. Iyer, Girish Karnad, Bhargava, Dorai-Bhagavan, V.somashekhar, T. S. Nagabharana, Yograj Bhat, Soori and Upendra(17th place in worlds 100 most popular directors).

Music composers :
T. G. Lingappa, G.K. Venkatesh, Vijaya Bhaskar, L. Vaidyanathan, Rajan-Nagendra, C. Ashwath, Upendra Kumar, M. Ranga Rao, Ilaiyaraaja, Hamsalekha,harikrishna, Gurukiran.

Playback Singers:
T. G. Lingappa, P. B. Srinivas, Dr. Rajkumar, P. Susheela, P. Leela, K. J. Yesudas, S. Janaki, S. P. Balasubramanyam , L. R. Eswari, Vani Jayaram,Chitra, B. R. Chaya, Manjula Gururaj, Rajesh Krishnan, Nanditha.

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