Director

G. V. Iyer

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 17

TMDB ID: 1335864

IMDb ID: nm0412676

Known for: Writing

Born: September 3, 1917

Died: December 21, 2003

Age: 86

Place of birth: Nanjanagud, Mysore, India

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1954 - 1998

Years active: 45

Wikidata: Q5512518

Also known as

Ganapathi Venkataramana Iyer • G.V.Iyer • G.V. Iyer

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Director (2)Screenplay (4)Story (3)Writer (3)Dialogue (2)Producer (2)Lyricist (1)

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Biography

Ganapathi Venkataramana Iyer (3 September 1917 – 21 December 2003), popularly known as G. V. Iyer, was a well-known Indian film director and actor. 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 films Bhagavad Gita (1993), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and was nominated for Best Film at the Bogotá Film Festival. And Swami Vivekananda (1998), Mithun Chakraborty won national award for Best Supporting Actor.

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