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Bungle Shama Rao Dwarakanath, better known as Dwarakish (born 19 August 1942), is an actor, director and producer in the Kannada films. He was given the name Dwarakish by well known kannada film maker C.V. Shivashankar.

He is an actor, producer and director, who has given opportunities to artists, who were in dire straits. It is a colorful, exquisite tribute to a man, who is truly an individual par excellence.

[edit] Biography

As an actor, he was largely slotted as a comedian although some of his movies were comic action movies, pairing him with fellow actor Vishnuvardhan. He is popularly called kulla (meaning a short man) in kannada. He was the first producer to shoot a kannada film outside India. The film was Singapoorinalli Raja Kulla. It was a bench mark in the history of kannada cinema. He has totally produced 49 kannada films and acted in over 300 films. He has many firsts to his credit.

Dwarakanath was the first producer to offer Rajanikanth an amount of 24 lakhs for a Tamil film in 1984. He has several fans for his comedy roles, which can be challenged only by himself. He has been instrumental in the careers of great actors like vishnu vardhan, manjula, srinath and others.

He was the first kannada producer to bring Kishore kumar to the kannada film dome, and was the first man to bring sonu nigam to kannada for the film "Majnoo', starring his son giri dwarakish.

[edit] Failure in the Box Office

With huge loses due to box office failures, Dwarakish was written off by his own men and the entire film industry.

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Dwarakish at the Internet Movie Database

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