Veeranna produced '' Bedara Kannappa '' ( 1954 , H. L. N. Simha ) which received the first Certificate of Merit . However , the first " President 's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Kannada " was awarded at the 5th National Film Awards ceremony to '' Premada Puthri ( 1957 , '' R. Nagendra Rao ) . Rajkumar was the legendary actor along with Vishnuvardhan , Ambarish , Anant Nag , Shankar Nag , Prabhakar , Udaya Kumar , Kalyan Kumar , Gangadhar , Ravichandran , Shivarajkumar , Shashikumar , Ramesh Arvind , Devaraj , Jaggesh , Saikumar , Vinodraj , Charanraj , Ramkumar , Sudeep , Darshan , Punith Rajkumar , Yash , Leelavathi , Kalpana , Bharathi , Jayanthi , Pandari Bai , Aarathi , Jaimala , Tara , Umashri and Ramya
5th National Film Awards
5th National Film Awards
Cinema of India