The death of Tushar Ranganath at a young age of 35 years has really shocked the entire industry as well as some of the journalists who were close to him. I was one of those journalists who had a special liking for Ranga as I would call him affectionately. I was always encouraging him and [...]
Gulama fame director Tushara Ranganath has been no more. He breathed his last at Forties hospital. Rangantah was admitted to hospital in a private hospital in Mysore few months back and had got treatment. He was very active in the recent Cricket tournament held at Hubli. Ranganath made a sensational beginning as a writer and [...]
Jhankar Music’s Chief Suresh Jain who had also produced three Kannada films besides backing many Kannada film projects died on Wednesday night after prolonged illness. Recently he had undergone many health problems and was in and out of Hospital. His health condition was swinging from improvement to deterioration in stages. Suersh Jain started from scratch [...]
68 year old Kannada film actor M.S.Karanth who had also produced two films in partnership brathed his last in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Karanth who leaves behind his wife, son and a daughter was suffering from a prolonged illness and had to succumb to breathlessness and other related health problems. M.S.Karanth who had [...]
Senior actor, producer B M Venkatesh who has been suffering from pneumonia for the past few days died in his Sadashivanagar residence on Tuesday morning. He was 77 years old. B M Venkatesh started his career from the legendary Gubbi Veeranna theatre in the 50s. In 1962 he was introduced to the cinema industry by [...]
Talented producer, actor Anil who had acted in Yenundare, Aha Bramacharai and few movies has expired at Chennai Bharathiraja hospital. Anil was suffering with his kidney problem . In his home production Anil acted in Yenuandre with Arthi who later became his wife. When Anil was suffering with kidney problem his wife Arthi had given [...]
Even today we are seeing vinyl banners with the photos of Kannada Movie icon and legendary actor Dr. Raj Kumar with a caption Rajanna, Maththomme Huttibaa. Yes, this is the wish of crores of Kannadigas even today. After looking at all the crisis situations faced by the Kannada film industry and the cultural segments these [...]
Aaptha Rakshaka and Aaptha Mithra director P.Vasu’s father Peethambharam is dead. He was a Veteran make-up artist turned producer of the South Indian film industry. Peethambaram passed away this evening (Monday, February 21, 2011) at his residence in Chennai. Peethambaram was personal make-up artiste to legendary NTR and he worked with him for almost 41 [...]
Indian Ace cinematographer S Ramachandra has expired today afternoon. He was suffering from cancer. S Ramachandra had won the national film award for best cinematograph in 1977 for the movie Rishya Shringa. He was awarded life time achievement award by Karnataka state government in the year 2006. Ramachandra had cinematographed for Yaadein, Ghatashraddha, Chommana Dudi, [...]
The new trend that was noticed in this year 2010 was that the Kannada heroines had dominated the screen space, while little opportunities were provided to non Kannada heroines this year . The local girls like Radhika Pandit, Aindrita Ray, Nidhi Subbaiah, Raagini and Ramya were the pick of the lot among the local heroines [...]
