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Ganapathi Venkatrama Iyer is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 3 september 1917 at Nanjangud (Inde)

Ganapathi Venkatrama Iyer

Ganapathi Venkatrama Iyer
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Nationality Inde
Birth 3 september 1917 at Nanjangud (Inde)
Death 21 december 2003 (at 86 years) at Mumbai (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards South

Ganapathi Venkataramana Iyer (3 September 1917 – 21 December 2003), popularly known as G. V. Iyer, was a well-known Indian film director and actor. His mother tongue is Tamil. 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 film was Bhagavad Gita (1993), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and was nominated for Best Film at the Bogotá Film Festival.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ganapathi Venkatrama Iyer (31 films)

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Actor

The Family Tree
The Family Tree (1971)
, 2h46
Directed by Girish Karnad
Actors Girish Karnad, Ganapathi Venkatrama Iyer, Uma Shivakumar, Vishnuvardhan
Rating79% 3.9963753.9963753.9963753.9963753.996375
The story starts in 1924 with Kathyayani, widow of Nanjunda Shrothri, who lives with her in-laws Shrinivasa Shrothri and Bhagirathamma and their servant, Lakshmi, in Nanjangud. After the loss of her husband, Kathyayani did not take to a widow’s garb as her mother-in-law wished because her father-in-law thought it would be too much for the young woman to bear. Shrothri, a scholar in Indian philosophy and the shastras, is occasionally visited by priests and professors for his opinion on an intricate problem in the scriptures. In one such event, Sadashiva Rao, a college lecturer in Mysore, visits Shrothri to discuss some matters of Indian philosophy. Listening to the two men talk, Kathyayani’s thoughts turn to college. Despite a little protest from Bhagirathamma, Shrothri encourages his daughter-in-law to pursue her BA degree, which Nanjunda had been studying for before he had drowned in the nearby Kapila river. At the university, she meets the brother of Sadashiva Rao, Raja Rao, professor of Shakespearean drama and organiser of the Dramatics Club, with whom she falls in love.

Director

Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (1998)

Directed by Ganapathi Venkatrama Iyer
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about religion
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Sarvadaman D. Banerjee, Pradeep Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Mammootty
Rating70% 3.5245653.5245653.5245653.5245653.524565
The film mainly captures the events of Vivekananda's life from his birth to 1897, when he returned to India from the West. The film begins with the birth of Narendranath Datta (pre-monastic name of Swami Vivekananda) and shows the neighbors and relatives of Datta family celebrating the event. It immediately moves to the scene where Narendranath sees his father Vishwanath Datta is donating money, clothes, food to poor and distressed people. Seeing this, young Narendranath asks his father to give him something too, and his father tells him to go and look at mirror and find what he had already given him. Following his father's suggestion, Narndranath goes to the room, sees his image in the mirror.