Dwarakish, a showman whose passion fuelled a golden period in Kannada cinema
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Dwarakish, a showman whose passion fuelled a golden period in Kannada cinema

The Hindu  

Dwarakish was Kannada cinema’s prachanda kulla, who never let his short stature get in the way of his passion for films. First showman “He was Kannada cinema’s first showman, a moniker later given to V. Ravichandran,” says senior film writer and author S. Shyam Prasad. Nobody in the Kannada film industry had even imagined shooting a film in Africa, but he pulled it off with Africadalli Sheela,” says Mr. Prasad. He lived like a king, and he also lived like a pauper,” says Mr. Prasad, summing up the life of an outspoken artiste who never forgot to smile even in the toughest of situations.

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