Lesser known facts about kannada film industry

#1 The very first Kannada Movie ‘Sati Sulochana’ was made with a Budget of Rs.40,000 way back in 1934

#2 Kannada Director Girish Kasaravalli has a credit of maximum Golden Lotus Awards (National Film Award for best Feature Film) only after Satyajith Ray

#3 An off-beat Kannada film Shanthi is the Second Indian film to enter the Guinness Book of World Recordsthat featured only a single actor. Other characters in the film were only represented by symbols and voices.

#4 The Music Maestro Illaya Raja started his career as an Assistant to the Legendary Music director G.K Venkatesh, who was a noted Artist in Kannada Film Industry

#5 Shankar Nag was the first Indian Director to experiment the under water shooting. Movie was ‘Ondu Mutthina Kathe’ starring Dr.Raj Kumar

#6Rajnikanth’s first Debut movie was in Kannada.He entered films through a Kannada movie called ‘Katha Sangama’ directed by Puttanna Kanagal in 1975

#7Baare Baare’ song from the movie ‘Nagarahaavu’directed by Puttanna Kanagalwas the first slow motion song in the history of Indian Cinema

#8 Mungaru Male is the first Indian Movie to be screened for a year in Multiplex

#9 Shankar Nag’s Malgudi Days it is said that R.K Narayana didn’t lend his writing to any Film directors but he only approached Shankar Nag to direct his writing and thus ‘Malgudi Days’ was made. 

The name Malgudi is derived from two popular localities of Bengaluru; Mal (Malleswaram) and Gudi (Basavanagudi)