G. V. Iyer

Ganapathi Venkatramana Iyer
Ganapathi Venkatramana Iyer
	British India
Died	21 December 2003 (aged 86); Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality	Indian
Other names	Kannada Bheeshma
Occupation(s)	Actor, film director, screenwriter
Known for	Sanskrit film direction
Notable work	Adi Shankaracharya (1983); Bhagavad Gita (1993); Swami Vivekananda (1998) ; Madhvacharya (1987)

Ganapathi Venkataramana Iyer (3 September 1917 – 21 December 2003) was an

National Film Award, including Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Audiography.^[2]^[3] His film Swami Vivekananda (1998) was nominated in the Best Film category at the Bogotá Film Festival , for which Mithun Chakraborty

won the national award for Best Supporting Actor.

Early life

He was born in 1917 in an orthodox brahmin family in Nanjangud of Mysore district.^[4]

Career

He started his career at the age of eight when he joined the

B V Karanth and Girish Karnad

.

He soon started directing his own movies. The movie Hamsageethe (music by Dr.

Balamuralikrishna, B. V. Karanth and T.G. Lingappa) was well received and made him famous. Iyer wrote scripts, lyrics and produced and directed many commercial Kannada movies. Iyer's biggest effort was Ranadheera Kanteerava

. He continued to make commercial movies until 1970.

In his younger days, he was committed to

Gandhi

and his ideals. He stopped wearing footwear from the day Gandhi died and never wore them again. He also wore hand-spun clothes colloquially called "Khadi" as was advocated by Gandhi.

He was proficient in both Kannada and Sanskrit and was soon to make the first movie in Sanskrit, about the famous philosopher Adi Shankaracharya (1983). The movie received the National Film Awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Audiography. It is believed that the movie made a great impact on Iyer.

He later made a film on Madhvacharya in Kannada and Ramanujacharya in Tamil. He also made a remarkable Sanskrit movie Bhagavad Gita (1993), which won Best Film at the National Film Awards of 1993.^[6] The film was also nominated for Best Film at the Bogotá Film Festival.

He produced Natyarani Shanthala, a historical television series on the

Vaishnava King. It was re-made in Hindi

as well as in Kannada. It was based on several works by Samethanahalli Rama Rao in Kannada.

He later went on to make a movie

Sarvadaman Banerjee

, the movie failed commercially.
He was planning a film based on the
Hindu epic Ramayana, with Sanjay Dutt playing the role of Ravana, before his sudden death on 21 December 2003 at the age of 87. His last rites took place at his Bharadhwaja Ashrama, near Dodda Aladamara, on the outskirts of Bangalore, near Kengeri.^[1]^[7]

Filmography

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Director, Writer and producer

Year Film Credited as Language Notes

Director Writer Producer

1954 Bedara Kannapa
Y Y Kannada

1960 Ranadheera Kanteerava Y Y Kannada

1962 Bhoodana Y Y Y Kannada

1962 Thai Karulu Y Kannada

1962 Thayin Karuna Y Kannada

1962 Gaali Gopura Y Kannada Lyrics only

1963 Bangari Y Y Y Kannada

1963 Saaku Magalu Y Kannada Dialogues only

1963 Lawyer Magalu Y Y Y Kannada

1964 Post Master Y Y Y Kannada

1965 Pazhani Y Tamil Original story

1966 Kiladi Ranga Y Y Y Kannada

1967 Rajashekara Y Y Y Kannada

1967 Gange Gowri Y Kannada Dialogues only

1968 Mysore Tanga Y Y Kannada

1968 Nane Bhagyavathi Y Kannada

1969 Chowkada Deepa Y Kannada

1969 Vichitra Samsara Y Kannada

1975 Aakhri Geet Y Kannada

1975 Hamsageethe Y Y Y Kannada

1977 Nalegalannu Maduvavaru Y Kannada

1977 Kudre Motte Y Kannada

1983 Adi Shankaracharya Y Y Sanskrit Madhu Ambat won national award for Best Cinematography.

1986 Madhvacharya Y Y Kannada

1989 Ramanujacharya Y Tamil

1989 Wall Poster Y Kannada

1993 Bhagvad Gita: Song of the Lord Y Y Sanskrit

1998 Swami Vivekananda Y Y Hindi Mithun Chakraborty won national award for Best Supporting Actor.

2001 Sri Krishna Leela Y Y Kannada Unreleased

Actor

Radha Ramana (1943)

Bedara Kannappa (1954)

Sodari
(1955)

Bhakta Mallikarjuna (1955)

Sadarame (1956)

Jagajyothi Basveshwara (1959)

Ranadheera Kanteerava (1960)

Kantheredu Nodu (1961)

Bhoodana (1962)

Vamsha Vriksha (1971)

Hemavathi (1977)

Awards

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National Film Award

Best Film: Adi Shankaracharya

Best Screenplay: Adi Shankaracharya

National Film Award

Best Film: Bhagavad Gita^[8]^[9]

1993: Bhagavad Gita – nominated for Best Film at the Bogotá Film Festival in Golden Precolumbian Circle.^{[citation needed]}
Hamsa Geethe
- 1976

Filmfare Award for Best Film – Kannada: Vamsha Vriksha- 1972

References

^ ^a ^b "G.V. Iyer". Egkhindi. Archived from the original on 3 June 2021.
India International Film Festival. Archived from the original
on 12 November 2013.

^ "31st National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 April 2012.

^ https://thehinduimages.com/details-page.php?id=2102780. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

^ "GV Iyer Movies Collectors Set". Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2012.

^ "National Film Awards, India". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2 June 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2012.

^ "G.V.Iyer Is No More". Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2012.

India International Film Festival. Archived from the original
on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2012.

^ "40th National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2012.

External links

G. V. Iyer at
IMDb

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National Film Award for Best Screenplay
1967–1980

S. L. Puram Sadanandan (1967)

Pandit Anand Kumar (1968)

Puttanna Kanagal (1969)

Satyajit Ray (1970)

Tapan Sinha (1971)

Gulzar (1972)

Mrinal Sen and Ashish Burman (1973)

Satyajit Ray (1974)

No Award (1975)

Vijay Tendulkar (1976)

Satyadev Dubey, Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad (1977)

T. S. Ranga and T. S. Nagabharana (1978)

Sai Paranjpye (1979)

Mrinal Sen (1980)

1981–2000

K. Balachander (1981)

Mrinal Sen (1982)

G. V. Iyer (1983)

Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1984)

Bhabendra Nath Saikia (1985)

Budhdhadeb Dasgupta (1986)

Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1987)

Arundhati Roy (1988)

M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1989)

K. S. Sethumadhavan (1990)

M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1991)

M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1992)

Satyajit Ray (1993)

M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1994)

Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Ashok Mishra (1995)

Agathiyan (1996)

Rituparno Ghosh (1997)

Ashok Mishra (1998)

Madampu Kunjukuttan (1999)

Bharathiraja (2000)

2001–present

Neelakanta (2001)

Aparna Sen (2002)

Goutam Ghose (2003)

Manoj Tyagi and Nina Arora (2004)

Prakash Jha, Manoj Tyagi and Shridhar Raghavan (2005)

Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2006)

Feroz Abbas Khan (2007)

Sachin Kundalkar (2008)

Original

P. F. Mathews and Harikrishna (2009)

Vetrimaaran (2010)

Nitesh Tiwari, Vikas Bahl, and Vijay Maurya (2011)

Sujoy Ghosh (2012)

P. Sheshadri (2013)

Srijit Mukherji (2014)

Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma (2015)

Syam Pushkaran (2016)

Sajeev Pazhoor (2017)

Rahul Ravindran (2018)

Adapted

Gopal Krishan Pai and Girish Kasaravalli (2009)

Anant Mahadevan and Sanjay Pawar (2010)

Avinash Deshpande Nigdi (2011)

Bhavesh Mandalia and Umesh Shukla (2012)

Panchakshari (2013)

Joshy Mangalath (2014)

Vishal Bhardwaj (2015)

Sanjay Krishnaji Patil (2016)

Jayaraj (2017)

Sriram Raghavan , Arijit Biswas, Yogesh Chandekar, Hemanth M. Rao and Pooja Ladha Surti (2018)

Dialogues

Pandiraj (2009)

Sanjay Pawar (2010)

Girish Kulkarni (2011)

Anjali Menon (2012)

Sumitra Bhave (2013)

Vishal Bhardwaj (2014)

Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma (2015)

Tharun Bhascker (2016)

Sambit Mohanty (2017)

Churni Ganguly (2018)

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VIAF

National

France

BnF data

United States

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._V._Iyer&oldid=1208166064"

[jointscene-1] "G.V. Iyer". Egkhindi. Archived from the original on 3 June 2021.

[31staward-2] India International Film Festival. Archived from the original
on 12 November 2013.

[31stawardPDF-3] "31st National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 April 2012.

[4] ttps://thehinduimages.com/details-page.php?id=2102780. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[5] "GV Iyer Movies Collectors Set". Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2012.

[6] "National Film Awards, India". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2 June 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2012.

[7] "G.V.Iyer Is No More". Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2012.

[40thaward-8] India International Film Festival. Archived from the original
on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2012.

[40thawardPDF-9] "40th National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2012.

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