B. S. Ranga
Bindiganavile Srinivas Iyengar Ranga was an Indian photographer, actor, producer and director who has made many landmark movies in Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil. He was also the owner of Vikram Studios. He has directed and produced about 87 films in these three languages with a maximum of 18 films in Kannada alone starring matinee idol Dr. Rajkumar.
Biography
He was born to a Hebbar Iyengar family in Magadi Village Mysore. After an art-enriched childhood wherein he interacted with many stage personalities, B.S. Ranga entered the field of photography. At the age of 17, the self-trained Ranga sent some of his work to be exhibited at the Royal Salon in London, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.Subsequently, he moved to Bombay and apprenticed himself to the cameraman and laboratory technician, Krishna Gopal. B.S. Ranga then embarked on a film career lasting more than five decades, during which he played the roles of cinematographer, director, producer, laboratory owner, studio owner, exhibitor and script-writer, sometimes all at once for one of his productions. His production company, Vikram Productions, gained prominence in the 1960s and 1970s, and won B.S. Ranga many awards, including two President's Awards. The first was for Tenali Ramakrishna in Telugu, and the second was for Amarshilpi Jakkanachari, the first colour movie produced in Kannada.
Awards
- Discontinued and [Intermittent National Film Awards|All India Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film] in 1957.
- 1956 – National [Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu|President's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Telugu] – ''Tenali Ramakrishna''
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