Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Babukodi Venkatramana Karanth

Timestamp:

Jun 23, 2012, 1:47:16 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Trupti

Comment:

--

Babukodi Venkatramana Karanth

@@ +1 @@
+'''Karanth, Babukodi Venkatramana(b. 1929)'''
+
+Kannada director born in Bangalore. Aged 7,
+acted the title role in Kuvempu’s play Nanna
+Gopala. Joined Gubbi Veeranna’s Gubbi
+Company in 1944. Embarked on a postgraduate
+degree in Hindi and studied music in
+Benares. Also studied at the National School of
+Drama (1963). School teacher in Delhi while
+working with the Dishantar theatre group.
+Stage productions in Kannada of Oedipus
+(adapted by P. Lankesh), Girish Karnad’s
+Hayavadana and Kambhar’s
+Jokumaraswamy (all in 1971) for his own
+theatre group Benaka. Introduced folk idioms
+borrowed from the Yakshagana to the stage,
+pioneering a trend later associated with cultural
+indigenism. Director of the National School of
+Drama (1978-81), and of Repertory at Bharat
+Bhavan, Bhopal (1981-6). He had to leave
+following allegations of having tried to burn
+alive one of the company’s actresses. Returned
+to his native Karnataka where he runs the
+state’s repertory company, Rangayana. Most of
+his film-making was partnered by Karnad,
+except for Chomana Dudi. Scored several
+films, e.g. G.V. Iyer’s Hamsa Geethe (1975),
+Mrinal Sen’s Parashuram (1978), Ek Din
+Pratidin (1979) and Kharij (1982), M.S.
+Sathyu’s Kanneshwara Rama (1977, also act),
+Girish Kasaravalli’s Ghattashraddha
+(1977), Akramana (1980), Mooru Darigalu
+(1981), Tabarana Kathe (1986) and
+Bannada Vesha (1988), Katte Ramachandra’s
+Arivu (1979), the children’s film Hangama
+Bombay Ishtyle (1978) and his wife Prema
+Karanth’s Phaniyamma (1982).
+
+
+'''FILMOGRAPHY''' (* also act): 1971: Vamsha
+Vriksha*; 1975: Chomana Dudi; Kalla Kalla
+Bachitko/Chor Chor Chhupja; 1977: Tabbaliyu
+Neenade Magane/Godhuli.
+
+[[Director]]
+
+[[Actor]]