| 1 | '''N. Lakshminarayan (?-1991)''' |
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| 4 | Kannada director born in Srirangapatna, |
| 5 | Karnataka. First explicitly experimental filmmaker |
| 6 | in Kannada with wordless short Bliss. |
| 7 | Studied cinematography in Bangalore. Early |
| 8 | career as apprentice to his uncle, B.R. |
| 9 | Krishnamurthy; then to R. Nagendra Rao. |
| 10 | Claimed influence of De Sica and Satyajit Ray |
| 11 | in first attempts at art cinema in Kannada, prior |
| 12 | to the Navya Movement-inspired notion of |
| 13 | film as an extension of literature. His |
| 14 | melodramatically inclined work claims roots in |
| 15 | psychological realism. His Nandi was a big |
| 16 | success and launched Kalpana as a star. |
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| 19 | '''FILMOGRAPHY:''' 1961: Bliss (Sh); 1964: |
| 20 | Nandi; 1969: Uyyale; 1970: Mukti; 1973: |
| 21 | Abachurina Post Office; 1979: Muyyi; 1985: |
| 22 | Bettada Hoovu; 1987: Belaku. |
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| 24 | [[Director]] |