Veteran Kannada theatre and movie character Sadananda Suvarna, 92, handed away at a personal hospital in Mangaluru on July 16, 2024. He was best-known for his 13-part tv collection Guddada Bhoota that he produced and directed for Doordarshan in 1991, and an eight-part documentary on Kannada author Dr. Ok. Shivarama Karanth. His collaboration with famous auteur Girish Kasaravalli resulted in a number of cinematic masterpieces.
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Veteran Kannada theatre and movie character Sadananda Suvarna, 92, handed away at a personal hospital in Mangaluru on July 16. He was affected by age-related illnesses.
He was best-known for his 13-part tv collection Guddada Bhoota that he produced and directed for Doordarshan in 1991, and an eight-part documentary on Kannada author Dr. Ok. Shivarama Karanth. His collaboration with famous auteur Girish Kasaravalli resulted in a number of cinematic masterpieces.
Hailing from Mulki in Dakshina Kannada district, Suvarna spent over 5 a long time of his life in Mumbai. He labored as a instructor and later, for almost three a long time, as a vendor in wall paint. He was one of many main lights of Kannada theatre in Mumbai. In later years, he shifted to Mangaluru, the place too he was energetic in theatre. He had directed tons of of performs, tailored many to the stage, in Kannada and Tulu.
Whereas based mostly out of Mumbai, he used to run a movie society Srushti, which screened solely Indian language movies, whereas many of the different movie societies confirmed international language movies. Via the movie society motion, he got here in contact with the parallel cinema motion of the Nineteen Seventies.
Girish Kasaravalli mentioned, “Per week after I completed my course at Movie and Tv Institute of India, I met him at a movie pageant. He was making an attempt to make a movie based mostly on the script of Guddada Bhoota, and requested me to help him. However I had already labored as an assistant director in two movies and was seeking to direct a movie. I submitted the script of Ghatashraddha, which he appreciated and produced.” Ghatashraddha went on to win the Swarna Kamal award for finest movie that 12 months.
Sadananda Suvarna directed just one movie Kubi Mattu Iyala, based mostly on a brief story by Ok. P. Poornachandra Tejaswi. He labored as an govt producer on many movies, inclujding Mane, Kraurya and Tabarana Kathe, all of which have been directed by Mr. Kasaravalli and which went on to win a number of awards. Mr. Kasaravalli, in flip, labored as a inventive director on the serial Guddada Bhoota.
“He was one one that by no means minced phrases and by no means tried to please anyone. I shared all my scripts with him and waited for his response, because it was very sincere,” Mr. Kasaravalli mentioned.
The duo had labored on a number of different tasks, although not all of them materialised.
“He wished to do one movie in his mom tongue Tulu. We tried a number of scripts, however in some way none of them took off. We additionally labored on a documentary on Sri Narayana Guru, however that too didn’t materialise,” he mentioned.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was amongst those that supplied condolences.
