| 1 | '''Girish Kasaravalli (b. 1949)''' |
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| 4 | Kannada director born in Kasaravalli village, |
| 5 | Karnataka. Degree in pharmacology (1971). |
| 6 | Even before graduating from the FTII (1975) |
| 7 | had virtually taken over direction of |
| 8 | Nagabharana’s Grahana (1978). First feature, |
| 9 | Ghattashraddha, in the wake of Samskara |
| 10 | (1970) and based on U.R. Ananthamurthy’s |
| 11 | writing, extended the anti-brahminism of the |
| 12 | literary Navya Movement. Principal of Adarsh |
| 13 | Film Institute, Bangalore; edited a Kannada |
| 14 | anthology on film theory with essays by |
| 15 | Eisenstein, Kracauer, Bazin, Metz, Wollen et al |
| 16 | (1983). |
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| 19 | '''FILMOGRAPHY:''' 1975: Avashesh (Sh); Anya |
| 20 | (Sh); 1977: Ghattashraddha; 1980: |
| 21 | Akramana; 1981: Mooru Darigalu; 1986: |
| 22 | Tabarana Kathe; Glowing Embers (Doc); |
| 23 | 1988: Bannada Vesha (TV); 1989: Mane/Ek |
| 24 | Ghar. |
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