The Natya Shastra, the ancient Indian treatise on theatre, refers to a prototype character that needs to be present in …
Bunnu K. Endo Maye
Broadly speaking there are, perhaps, two types of cinema/films. The first variety, also the dominant one, is a kind of …
Director’s Note: Bunnu K. Endo Maye
It is now more than two and a half decades since I graduated from the Film & Television Institute of …
Thithi
Highly acclaimed at various International film festivals and a National Award winner for Best Kannada film, Thithi is an extremely …
Hamsageethe
After a great deal of hardships, a brilliant rookie singer Venkatasubbaiyya (Anant Nag) manages to convince a reluctant but enigmatic …
Girish Kasaravalli
Girish Kasaravalli is one of the pioneers of the New Wave Movement in Kannada cinema and arguably one of Kannada …
Rajkumar
Like MG Ramachandran (MGR) and Sivaji Ganesan in Tamil Cinema, NT Rama Rao (NTR) and A Nageshwara Rao in Telugu …
Ghatashraddha
Udupa (Ramaswamy Iyengar) runs a run down Vedic school, operating from his house in a village. Apart from his uncontrollable …
BV Karanth – Baba
At a very young age BV Karanth ran away from his house in Babukodi village near Mangalore in Karnataka, South …
The Last Kannada Superstar
When I had first heard about a film actor called Vishnuvardhan, I was already a die hard fan of ‘our’ …