Best Film at the National Film Awards of 1993. The film was also nominated for Best Film at the Bogotá Film Festival. He produced Natyarani Shanthala, a historical television series on the Hoysala Jain queen Shanthala, who was married to a Vaishnava King. It was re-made in Hindi as well as in Kannada. It was based on several works by Samethanahalli Rama Rao in Kannada. He later went on to make a movie Swami Vivekananda. It was an attempt to portray Swami Vivekananda, realistically. For this film Mithun Chakraborty won a national award for Best Supporting Actor. Mithun Chakraborty played Shri Ramkrishna Paramhansa. Though it had many famous actors such as Mithun Chakraborty, Hema Malini and Sarvadaman Banerjee, the movie failed commercially. He was planning a film based on the Hindu epic Ramayana, with Sanjay Dutt playing the role of Ravana, before his sudden death on 21 December 2003 at the age of 87. His last rites took place at his Bharadhwaja Ashrama, near Dodda Aladamara, on the outskirts of Bangalore, near Kengeri. Filmography Director, Writer and Producer Actor Radha Ramana (1943) Bedara Kannappa (1954) Sodari (1955) Bhakta Mallikarjuna (1955) Sadarame (1956) Jagajyothi Basveshwara (1959) Ranadheera Kanteerava (1960) Kantheredu Nodu (1961) Bhoodana (1962) Vamsha Vriksha (1971) Hemavathi (1977) Awards 1983: National Film Award Best Film: Adi Shankaracharya Best Screenplay: Adi Shankaracharya 1993: National Film Award Best Film: Bhagavad Gita 1993: Bhagavad Gita – nominated for Best Film at the Bogotá Film Festival in Golden Precolumbian Circle. Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada: Hamsa Geethe- 1976 Filmfare Award for Best Film – Kannada: Vamsha Vriksha- 1972 See also List of Indian film directors References External links Iyer, GV Iyer, GV Iyer, GV Iyer, GV Male actors from Mysore Kannada screenwriters Filmfare Awards South winners Indian Sanskrit scholars Male actors in Kannada cinema 20th-century Indian film directors Writers from Mysore 20th-century Indian male actors Film producers from Karnataka Indian male film actors Tamil screenwriters 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights Film directors from Karnataka Screenwriters from Karnataka Best Original Screenplay National Film Award winners Directors who won the Best Feature Film National Film Award 20th-century Indian screenwriters