Dwarakish

Bungle Shama Rao Dwarakanath, better known as Dwarakish, is an Indian actor, director and producer in the Kannada film industry. He was given the name Dwarakish by Kannada film maker C. V. Shivashankar.

Early life

Dwarakish was born to Bungle Shama Rao and Jayamma in Hunsur. He grew up in Ittigegud, Mysore. He received his primary education in Sharada Vilas and Banumaiah's school, and he graduated from CPC Polytechnic with a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering. After completing his education, Dwarakish and his brother started an automotive spare parts business called "Bharath Auto Spares". You can still see this shop in Gandhi Square, Mysore. He was strongly attracted to acting and often asked his maternal uncle, a famous cinema director Hunusur Krishnamurthy, to give him a chance to act in movies. In 1963, he decided to quit business and start acting in movies.

Film career

In 1966, Dwarakish produced his first film Mamateya Bandhana. In 1969, he independently produced Mayor Muthanna, under the banner of "Dwaraka Films". Rajkumar and Bharathi played the lead roles in this movie. This movie was a great hit. After Mayor Muthanna, Dwarakish gave a series of box office successes to Kannada cinema, one after the other for the next two decades. He became the king of Kannada cinema producers.

Director

From the year 1985, Dwarakish started directing movies, his first movie as a director was Nee Bareda Kadambari. He went on to direct movies for other producers. Behind the camera, Dwarakish was very successful. As a director, he created movies such as Dance Raja Dance, Nee Bareda Kadambari, ""Shruthi", "Shruthi Haakidha Hejje", Rayaru Bandaru Mavana Manege and "KilaadigaLu"

Dwarakish Chitra faced problems after the failure of some movies. With huge losses from box office failures, Dwarakish was written off by his own colleagues and the entire film industry. On Udaya TV, he lamented that he had lost around 32 crores of rupees. Despite failures Dwarakish did not despair. He continued to make movies introducing new faces to Kannada cinema.

As a producer, he has brought many new people to the cinema. Not only actors and actresses—he has given opportunities to new directors and other technicians. They all consider him to be their "Godfather". The support of these people, and his unwavering dedication to cinema, gave Dwarakish his long-awaited moment of success. Dwarakish produced "ApthaMitra" in the year 2004. Apthamitra was a magnificent success. Dwarakish was the first producer to offer Rajanikanth an amount of 24 lakhs of rupees for a Tamil film in 1984. He has been instrumental in the careers of great actors like Vishnu Vardhan, Manjula, and Srinath.. With this success the 'King of Kannada Cinema Producers', Dwarakish, regained his throne in 2005.

Actor

As an actor, he was often typecast as a comedian. But some of his movies were comic action movies, also starring the actor Vishnuvardhan. He is popularly called 'Kulla' (meaning a short man) in Kannada. He was the first producer to shoot a Kannada film outside India. The film was Singapoorinalli Raja Kulla. It was a milestone in the history of Kannada cinema. He has in total produced 49 Kannada films and acted in more than 300 films. He has many firsts to his credit.

He was the first Kannada producer to bring Kishore Kumar to the Kannada film Industry and the song Aadu Aata Aadu became extremely popular.

Records and Awards

Apthamitra created records in Kannada Cinema. It was the

• First Kannada movie to celebrate screening for one year in two theaters, Santosh in Bangalore and Ranajith in Mysore.
• First Kannada movie to successfully complete one year of screening with four shows daily.
• First movie in the history of 52 years of film awards to win all the awards given to films of a specific language.
• Produced First Kannada movie to be shot outside India ^[1]

Filmography

As Director and Producer

Year	Film	Credited as		Language	Notes
		Director	Producer
1966	Mamatheya Bandhana	N	Y	Kannada
1969	Mayor Muthanna	N	Y	Kannada
1972	Kulla Agent 000	N	Y	Kannada	Based on Danish movie Operation Love Birds (Slå først, Frede!)/(Strike First Freddy)
1973	Cowboy Kulla	N	Y	Kannada
1977	Bhagyavantharu	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Dheerga Sumangali - Tamil
1977	Kittu Puttu	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Anubavi Raja Anubavi - Tamil
1978	Singaporenalli Raja Kulla	N	Y	Kannada
1979	Preethi Madu Thamashe Nodu	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Kadhalikka Neramillai - Tamil
1980	Kulla Kulli	N	Y	Kannada
1980	Manku Thimma	N	Y	Kannada	Renake - Mastana - Hindi
1981	Guru Shishyaru	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Paramanandayya Sishyula Katha - Telugu
1981	Mane Mane Kathe	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Ramayanamlo Pidakala Veta - Telugu
1982	Pedda Gedda	N	Y	Kannada
1982	Adrushtavantha	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Evariki Vaare Yamuna Theere - Telugu
1982	Nyaya Ellide	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Sattam Oru Iruttarai - Tamil
1983	Gedda Maga	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Moondru Mugam - Tamil
1983	Ananda Bhairavi	N	Y	Kannada
1983	Adutha Varisu	N	Y	Tamil	Remake - Raja Jani - Hindi
1984	Prachanda Kulla	N	Y	Kannada
1984	Police Papanna	N	Y	Kannada
1984	Indina Ramayana	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Oorukku Upadesam - Tamil
1984	Gangvaa	N	Y	Hindi	Remake - Malaiyoor Mambattiyan - Tamil
1985	Nee Bareda Kadambari	Y	Y	Kannada	Remake - Pyaar Jhukta Nahin - Hindi
1985	Nee Thanda Kanike	Y	Y	Kannada	Remake - Sharaabi - Hindi
1985	Madhuve Madu Tamashe Nodu	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Dowry Kalyanam - Tamil
1985	Brahma Gantu	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Gopurangal Saivathillai - Tamil
1986	Naan Adimai Illai	Y	Y	Tamil	Remake - Pyaar Jhukta Nahin - Hindi
1986	Africadalli Sheela	Y	Y	Kannada
1986	Kizhakku Africavil Sheela	Y	Y	Tamil	Remake - Africadalli Sheela
1987	Sheela	N	Y	Hindi	Remake - Africadalli Sheela
1987	Dance Raja Dance	Y	Y	Kannada
1987	Onde Goodina Hakkigalu	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Samsaram Adhu Minsaram - Tamil
1987	Ravana Rajya	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Ankush - Hindi
1988	Ganda Mane Makkalu	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Veedu Manaivi Makkal - Tamil
1989	Jai Karnataka	Y	Y	Kannada	Remake - Mr. India - Hindi
1989	Krishna Nee Kunidaga	Y	Y	Kannada
1990	Shruthi	Y	N	Kannada	Remake - Pudhu Vasantham - Tamil
1991	Gowri Kalyana	Y	Y	Kannada
1992	Hosa Kalla Hale Kulla	Y	Y	Kannada
1993	Rayaru Bandaru Mavana Manege	Y	N	Kannada	Remake - Chithram -Malayalam
1994	Rasika	Y	N	Kannada
1994	Kiladigalu	Y	N	Kannada
1995	Kidnap	Y	Y	Kannada
1995	Giddu Dada	Y	N	Kannada	Based on Victoria No. 203
1996	Hrudaya Kallaru	Y	Y	Kannada
1997	Shruthi Hakida Hejje	Y	N	Kannada
2001	Majnu	Y	N	Kannada	Remake - Lovetoday - Tamil
2005	Apthamitra	N	Y	Kannada	Remake - Manichitrathazhu - Malayalam
2011	Vishnuvardhana	N	Y	Kannada	Reported to be based on Handphone[2] Remade in Bengali as Bachchan
2012	Chaarulatha	N	Y	Tamil, Kannada	Remake - Thai horror film Alone
2015	Aatagara	N	Y	Kannada	Based on Agatha Christie's mystery novel And Then There Were None
2017	Chowka	N	Y	Kannada	Under production

As actor

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References

External links

• Official site
• Sify interview
• Dwarakish at the Internet Movie Database