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Ganapathi Venkatrama Iyer (known as G. V.
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December 21, 2003) was a well known Indian film
Born 3 September 1917
Wikimedia Shop director and actor. He was nicknamed "Kannada
Nanjanagud, Mysore, India
Bheeshma",[1] and was the only person who
Interaction Died 21 December 2003 (aged86)
made movies in Sanskrit, Adi Shankaracharya
Help Mumbai
(1983) and which won four National Film Award,
About Wikipedia Othernames G. V. Iyer
including Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best
Community portal Kannada Bheeshma
Recent changes Cinematography and Best Audiography.[2][3] His
Occupation Actor, film director,
Contact page films were well known for their spiritual themes. screenwriter
He was born in 1917 in Nanjanagud in Mysore
Tools Knownfor Sanskrit film direction
district of Karnataka state in South India. His
Notable work(s) Adi Shankaracharya (1983),
Print/export most critically acclaimed film was Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita (1993),
(1993) (1993), which won the National Film
Award for Best Feature Film and was nominated Swami Vivekananda (1998)
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for Best Film at the Bogot Film Festival.
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1 Career
2 Filmography
2.1 Director
2.2 Actor
2.3 Writer
3 Awards
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Career [edit]

He started his career at the age of eight when he joined the Gubbi Veeranna theatre group.[4]
His first role as an actor in cinema was in the film Radharamana. Besides this he acted in a
number of other movies such as Mahakavi Kalidasa, Sodhari, Hemavati, Hari Bhaktha and
Bedara Kannapa.

He soon started directing his own movies. The movie Hamsageethe (music by Dr.

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Balamuralikrishna, B. V. Karanth and T.G. Lingappa) was extremely well received and made
him famous. Iyer wrote scripts, lyrics and produced and directed many commercial Kannada
movies. Iyers biggest effort was Ranadheera Kanteerava. He continued making commercial
movies until 1970.

He was proficient in both Kannada and Sanskrit and was soon to make the first movie in
Sanskrit, about the famous philosopher Adi Shankara (1983). The movie received the National
Film Awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Audiography and has
been known as a master piece. It is believed that the movie made a great impact on Iyer. It was
remarked that he stopped wearing footwear after making the movie.

He later went on to make a film on Madhvacharya in Kannada and Ramanujacharya in Tamil.

He also made a remarkable Sanskrit movie Bhagavad Gita (1993), which won Best Film at the
National Film Awards of 1993.[5] The film was also nominated for Best Film at the Bogot Film
Festival.

He also produced a television series Natyarani Shanthala,[6] a historical, on the Hoysala Jain
queen Shanthala, who was married to a Vaishnava King. It was re-made in Hindi as well as in
Kannada. It was based on several works by Samethanahalli Rama Rao in Kannada.

He later went on to make a movie Swami Vivekananda. It was an attempt to portray Swami
Vivekananda, realistically. Though it had many famous actors such as Mithun Chakraborty,
Hema Malini and Sarvadaman Banerjee, the movie failed to become a commercial success.

He was planning a film based on the Hindu epic Ramayana, with Sanjay Dutt playing the role of
Ravana, before his sudden death on December 21, 2003 at the age of 87. His last rites took
place at his Bharadhwaja Ashrama, near Dodda Aladamara, on the outskirts of Bangalore, near
Kengeri.[1][7]

Filmography [edit]

Director [edit]
1962 Bhoodana
1962 Thai Karulu
1962 Thayin Karuna
1963 Bangari
1963 Layaru Magalu
1964 Postmaster
1966 Kiladi Ranga
1967 Rajasekara
1968 Mysore Tonga
1968 Nane Bhagyavathi
1969 Chowkada Deepa
1969 Vichitra Samsara
1975 Aakhri Geet
1975 Hamse Geethe
1976 Nalegalannu Maduvavaru
1977 Kudre Motte

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1983 Adi Shankaracharya

1986 Madhvacharya
1989 Ramanujacharya
1989 Wall Poster
1993 Bhagvad Gita: Song of the Lord
1998 Swami Vivekananda

Actor [edit]
Bedara Kannappa (1954)
Sodari (1955)
Bhakta Mallikarjuna (1955)
Sadarame (1956)
Jagajyothi Basveshwara (1959)
Ranadheera Kanteerava (1960)
Kantheredu Nodu (1961)
Vamsha Vriksha (1971)
Hemavathi (1977)

Writer [edit]
1954 Bedara Kannapa
1960 Ranadheera Kanteerava
1962 Gaali Gopura (lyrics)
1967 Gange Gowri
1983 Adi Shankaracharya (screenplay)
1993 Bhagvad Gita: Song of the Lord (writer)
1998 Swami Vivekananda (screenplay)

Awards [edit]

1983: National Film Award

Best Film: Adi Shankaracharya
Best Screenplay: Adi Shankaracharya
1993: National Film Award
Best Film: Bhagavad Gita [8][9]
1993: Bhagavad Gita - nominated for Best Film at the Bogot Film Festival in Golden
Precolumbian Circle.[10]

See also [edit]

Swami Vivekananda (film)

Adi Shankaracharya

References [edit]

1. ^ a b "G.V. Iyer" . jointscene. 7. ^ "G.V.Iyer Is No More" . Retrieved 9

2. ^ "31st National Film Awards" . India March 2012.

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International Film Festival. 8. ^ "40th National Film Awards" . India

3. ^ "31st National Film Awards (PDF)" . International Film Festival. Retrieved
Directorate of Film Festivals. March 2, 2012.
4. ^ "GV Iyer Movies Collectors Set" . 9. ^ "40th National Film Awards (PDF)" .
Retrieved 9 March 2012. Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved
5. ^ "National Film Awards, India," . IMDb. March 2, 2012.
Retrieved 9 March 2012. 10. ^ "G.V. Iyer Awards" .
6. ^ "Manju Bhargavi returns to work in whosdatedwho.com. Retrieved 9 March
Kannada" . Retrieved 9 March 2012. 2012.

External links [edit]

G. V. Iyer at the Internet Movie Database

v t e National Film Award for Best Screenplay [hide]
S. L. Puram Sadanandan (1967) Pandit Anand Kumar (1968) Puttanna Kanagal (1969)

Satyajit Ray (1970) Tapan Sinha (1971) Gulzar (1972) Mrinal Sen and Ashish Burman
19671980 (1973) Satyajit Ray (1974) No Award (1975) Vijay Tendulkar (1976) Satyadev Dubey,
Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad (1977) T. S. Ranga and T. S. Nagabharana (1978)

Sai Paranjpye (1979) Mrinal Sen (1980)
K. Balachander (1981) Mrinal Sen (1982) G. V. Iyer (1983) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1984)
Bhabendra Nath Saikia (1985) Budhdhadeb Dasgupta (1986) Adoor Gopalakrishnan
(1987) Arundhati Roy (1988) M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1989) K. S. Sethumadhavan (1990)
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M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1991) M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1992) Satyajit Ray (1993)

M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1994) Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Ashok Mishra (1995) Agathiyan
(1996) Rituparno Ghosh (1997) Ashok Mishra (1998) Madampu Kunjukuttan (1999)

Bharathiraja (2000)
Neelakanta (2001) Aparna Sen (2002) Goutam Ghose (2003) Manoj Tyagi and Nina
Arora (2004) Prakash Jha, Manoj Tyagi and Shridhar Raghavan (2005) Abhijat Joshi,
Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2006) Feroz Abbas Khan (2007)

Sachin Kundalkar (2008)
P. F. Mathews and Harikrishna (2009) Vetrimaaran (2010) Nitish Tiwary,
Original
2001present Vikas Bahl and Vijay Maurya (2011) Sujoy Ghosh (2012)
Gopal Krishan Pai and Girish Kasaravalli (2009) Anant Mahadevan and
Adapted Sanjay Pawar (2010) Avinash Deshpande Nigdi (2011) Bhavesh
Mandalia and Umesh Shukla (2012)
Pandiraj (2009) Sanjay Pawar (2010) Girish Kulkarni (2011) Anjali Menon
Dialogues
(2012)

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