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S. Ramachandra is a Director of Photography and Cinematography Indian
Shivaramaiah Ramachandra Aithal popularly known as S. Ramachandra, was an award winning, acclaimed Indian cinematographer. He won National Film Award for Best Cinematography in 1977 for the Kannada feature film Rishya Shringa. He had also won the Lifetime Achievement Award (at the State Film Awards) given by the Karnataka State Government in the year 2006.
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Gulabi Talkies (2008)
, 2h3Directed by Girish Kasaravalli
Genres Drama
Actors Umashree, M. D. Pallavi Arun, Poornima Indrajith
Roles Director of Photography
Rating80%
The film is set in the late 1990s among the fishing communities around Kundapura, in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka. The impulsive midwife Gulabi (Umashree) is the protagonist, whose one passion is the cinema. She leads a lonely life in an island inhabited by fisher folk. Her husband Musa (K.G. Krishna Murthy), a small-time fish-selling agent, has deserted her and is living happily with his second wife Kunjipathu and their child Adda.
Naayi Neralu (2006)
, 2h10Directed by Girish Kasaravalli
Genres Drama
Roles Director of Photography
Rating82%
Acchanniah lives with his wife Nagalakshmi and his widowed daughter-in-law Venkatalakshmi in a remote village in Karnataka. His granddaughter Rajalakshmi is in a distant city completing her studies. Acchanniah learns from a friend that a young man in a distant village claims that he was the son of Acchanniah in his previous birth. He dismisses the information as baseless. But his ailing wife believes or rather chooses to believe that her son who died twenty years ago has come back.
Kraurya (1995)
, 1h58Directed by Girish Kasaravalli
Genres Drama
Actors H. G. Dattatreya
Roles Director of Photography
Rating26%
Kraurya is the story of Rangajji, a widow who loves to tell stories of fantasy to the children of her village. Rangajji's hardships start when her only son dies young mysteriously. Rangajji goes to live with a distant relative of hers, only to receive a cold welcome. Life goes on endlessly for Rangajji. She longs to tell stories to children, but her freedom is severely restricted. While she spends every day in boredom, Murty the youngest son of the family becomes close to Rangajji. Rangajji feels a new lease of life when the eldest son of the family Subbanna decides to go to Bangalore to start his own private business. Rangajji lends the money Subbanna needs, thinking that Subbanna might help her find her husband's close friend Mr.Padmanabiah in Bangalore. Subbanna leaves for Bangalore. After a few months Rangajji leaves for Bangalore along with Murty only to receive another cold welcome from Subbanna. She tries to find Mr.Padmanabiah with Murty's help. When her search ends, she comes to know that Mr.Padmanabiah is no more. Her last ray of hope dims out and leaves her in a state of mental shock, desperation and defeat. She loses her will to live. Murty decides to take her back to the village. But a spate of events during the journey back to the village leaves Rangajji physically wounded. Murty tries to take control of the situation, but a small boy that he is, he fails. The climax of the film shows Rangajji in an unconscious state lying in the police station, while Murty afraid the police might arrest him for murder makes a desperate getaway.
Ek Ghar (1991)
, 1h57Directed by Girish Kasaravalli
Genres Drama
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval, Rohini Hattangadi
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Mane is a Kafkaesque tale about a young couple (Naseeruddin Shah and Deepti Naval) that moves to the city from a village with the hope of finding privacy and freedom, which are unavailable in the joint family system. For all its narrative excursions, in a sense, Mane is merely about the breakup of a marriage in which the Rossellinian couple, unable to confront each other directly amidst the loneliness of the city, externalizes their troubles – his powerlessness, her desire for freedom and their childlessness – and shifts blame on situations beyond their control in order to act victims. Kasaravalli works wonder with film and sound here, using them to denote the impending break down. (One stunning shot uses the neon lights of the neighbourhood to literally break apart the frame). A critique on urban spaces that suffocate more than they promise privacy, Mane unfolds like a sociological update on Rear Window (1954), in which personal anxieties and fears are displaced onto the surroundings and, specifically, onto a lower social class. In that sense, Mane connects all the way to the director’s latest work in the manner in which it raises questions about the visibility of the class structure and the seeming imperceptibility of the consequences of acts of one class on the other. Mane is full of such encroachments of freedom by other competing notions of freedom – between classes, between houses and between spouses.
Ek Ghar (1991)
, 1h38Directed by Girish Kasaravalli
Genres Drama
Actors Rohini Hattangadi, Deepti Naval, Naseeruddin Shah
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
Arriving in the city with a hope to find a cosy little home, Rajanna and Geeta are happy when they find one such house. One day they find a workshop opening up next door. Rajanna is indignant at the noises coming from the workshop but he is helpless. Geeta, meanwhile, gets the shed vacated with the help of the police inspector. Rajanna seeks the help of the workmen who had earlier occupied the shed to take Geeta away from the environment. But discovers that their slum is being demolished to make way for a multinational.
Aasphota (1987)
, 1h37Directed by T. S. Nagabharana
Themes Political films
Actors Shridhar, H. G. Dattatreya
Roles Director of Photography
Banker Margayya (1983)
, 2h19Directed by T. S. Nagabharana
Genres Drama
Actors Lokesh, Jayanthi, Master Manjunath, Musuri Krishnamurthy
Roles Director of Photography
Rating78%
Bad culture drives out good culture. Bad money drives out good money. But here, quick money itself, acquired by a miser, though initially boosts his image in the society gradually makes him understand that human values are more important than money. flim
Parasangada Gende Thimma (1978)
, 2h19Genres Drama
Actors Lokesh, Ramakrishna
Roles Director of Photography
Thimanna (Lokesh) is an innocent tribal young boy who is excited about his wedding. A salesman in village who help villagers by getting their needy items from distant city,
The Ritual (1977)
, 1h48Directed by Girish Kasaravalli
Genres Drama
Actors Ajith Kumar, P. Santha Kumari, Suresh
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73%
A young Brahmin Vedic school student, who is from an aristocratic family, befriends his school master's daughter who is a pregnant widow. The boy tries but fails in concealing his friend's pregnancy. The widow has an abortion forced on her, has the eponymous ritual performed on her and is excommunicated. The student returns home as his school shuts down.
Chomana Dudi (1975)
, 2h21Genres Drama
Actors M. V. Vasudeva Rao
Roles Director of Photography
Rating79%
Choma is an untouchable bonded-labourer in a village who is working along with his family for a landlord, as he belongs to a backward class. Due to his social status, he is not allowed to till his own land, something that he desires most. Though he managed to rear a pair of bullocks that he found straying in the forest, he cannot use them to till the land. He comes in contact of Christian missionaries who try to convert him giving him the lure of the land, but Choma does not want to let go of his faith. He releases the fury that fate has beset on him, by beating his drum.
Parwana (1971)
, 1h33Genres Thriller, Romance
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Navin Nischol, Yogeeta Bali Chakraborty, Om Prakash, Shatrughan Sinha, Lalita Pawar
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66%
Amitabh plays Kumar Sen, an artist by profession. He is in love with Asha (Yogeeta Bali). Asha wins a trip to Ooty in a dance competition, and falls in love with a wealthy tea plantation owner, Rajesh (Navin Nischol). When Kumar finds out, he goes to Asha's uncle, Ashok Verma (Om Prakash), and demands Asha's hand in marriage. When Ashok refuses, Kumar kills him. The manner in which Kumar plans and executes the murder is regarded as an immensely brilliant and engaging sequence. Kumar boards and exits, various modes of transportation to avoid any possibilities of suspicion and finally frames Rajesh in the case and tries to win Asha's love. Asha, still in love with Rajesh, promises Kumar to stay with him forever, if he can get Rajesh released from his death sentence. Unable to digest that, Kumar understands that Rajesh will always remain Asha's love. He writes down his confession, gives it to Rajesh, and commits suicide.
Saat Hindustani (1969)
, 2h24Directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Genres War
Actors Utpal Dutt, Madhu, Amitabh Bachchan, Anwar Ali, Jalal Agha, A. K. Hangal
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
A Muslim poet Anwar Ali (Amitabh Bachchan) hails from Bihar and five other men, all belonging from different religions and different parts of India, join their seventh comrade Maria (Shehnaz), a native of Portuguese-occupied Goa, to raise nationalist sentiments in that state by hoisting Indian flag on Portuguese forts and buildings.
Shehar Aur Sapna (1961)
, 2hDirected by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Actors Nana Palsikar, David Abraham, Manmohan Krishna Chadha, Asit Sen, Asit Sen
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Four Hearts, Four Roads (1959)
, 2h40Directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Genres Drama
Actors Raj Kapoor, Ajit Khan, Shammi Kapoor, Meena Kumari, Nimmi, Kumkum
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72%
The story revolves around three love stories that run simultaneously among. The background of the movie is a construction of a crossroad with 4 roads and all people are related to the road that is being built and are involved. How the love stories unfold forms the crux of the movie.
Journey Beyond Three Seas (1957)
, 1h50Directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Genres Adventure, Historical
Actors Nargis, Padmini Ramachandran, Balraj Sahni, Bharat Bhushan, Prithviraj Kapoor, Paidi Jairaj
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
The film tells the story of Afanasy Nikitin (Oleg Strizhenov), a 15th-century, Russian trader who travelled to India (1466-1472), and falls in love with an Indian girl Champa (Nargis Dutt).