Ranga was an Indian photographer, actor, writer, producer and director made many landmark movies in Kannada, under Vikram Studios. In 1955, Bhagavathar again produced a Kannada film, Mahakavi Kalidasa, in which he introduced actress B. In 1949, Honnappa Bhagavathar, who had earlier acted in Gubbi Veeranna's films, produced Bhakta Kumbara and starred in the lead role along with Pandaribai. Sati Sulochana, starring Subbaiah Naidu and Tripuramba, was shot in Kolhapur at the Chatrapathi studio most filming, sound recording, and post-production was done in Chennai. In 1934, the first Kannada talkie, Sati Sulochana, appeared in theatres, followed by Bhakta Dhruva (aka Dhruva Kumar). Kannada cinema is known for producing experimental works such as Girish Kasaravalli's Ghatashraddha (1977), which won the Ducats Award at the Manneham Film Festival Germany, Dweepa (2002), which won Best Film at Moscow International Film Festival, Singeetam Srinivasa Rao's silent film Pushpaka Vimana (1987), screened at the Cannes Film Festival and Prashanth Neel's historical drama, K.G.F: Chapter 1 (2018), which became the first Kannada language film to have grossed ₹250 crores worldwide at the box office. Nagabharana's Mysuru Mallige (based on the works of acclaimed poet K. Ananthamurthy), which won the Bronze Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival, and T.
Karanth's Chomana Dudi (1975), Girish Karnad's Kaadu (1973), Pattabhirama Reddy's Samskara (1970) (based on a novel by U. Major literary works have been adapted to the Kannada screen such as B. The film was produced by Chamanlal Doongaji, who in 1932 founded South India Movietone in Bangalore. It was also the first film starring Subbaiah Naidu and Tripuramba, and was the first motion picture screened in the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom. Rao was the first talkie film in the Kannada language.
The 1934 film Sati Sulochana directed by Y. It is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Kannada cinema, also known as Sandalwood or Chandanavana, is an Indian film industry of Kannada-language motion pictures.