Veteran filmmaker S. K. Bhagavan, who directed many Rajkumar-starrers, passes away
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Veteran filmmaker S. K. Bhagavan, who directed many Rajkumar-starrers, passes away

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Veteran filmmaker S. K. Bhagavan, 89, one of the last few links to the Rajkumar-era Kannada cinema, passed away owing to age-related ailments in Bengaluru on Monday. Mr. Bhagavan directed 48 films, of great versatility and many of them blockbusters, with his collaborator B. Dorai Raj, with the pair becoming popular as Dorai-Bhagavan. Winning combo with Dr. Rajkumar Mr. Bhagavan started out as a theatre actor with Hirannaiah Mitra Mandali and entered films in 1956 as an assistant to Kanagal Prabhakara Shastry and later to T. V. Singh Thakore. However, he later collaborated with cinematographer Dorai Raj and the pair made their independent debut with the innovative James Bond-style film Jedara Bale, starring Dr. Rajkumar and went on to make several films in the genre, with the matinee idol. The Dorai-Bhagavan collaboration with Anant Nag began with the now iconic film Bayalu Daari in 1976 and they made several hit films, especially pairing Anant Nag with Lakshmi, including Chandanada Gombe, Benkiya Bale, Bidugadeya Bedi, and Sedina Hakki.

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