Kamalakara Kameswara Rao

About Kamalakara Kameswara Rao

Kamalakara Kameswara Rao is a film director, screenwriter working in Telugu cinema and Tamil cinema. Clapnumber holds 25 titles for Kamalakara Kameswara Rao, from Sumangali in 1940 to Sri Yedukondala Swamy in 1991. By decade, that is 3 in the 1940s, 4 in the 1950s, 8 in the 1960s, 5 in the 1970s, 4 in the 1980s and 1 in the 1990s. Those titles are mostly drama, comedy and musical.

Biography

Kamalakara Kameswara Rao (4 October 1911 – 29 June 1998) was an Indian film director known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema, and a few Tamil and Hindi films. Widely known as Pauranika Chitra Brahma (transl. Brahma of mythological films), Kameswara Rao directed fifty feature films in a variety of genres. In 1960 he directed the biographical film, Mahakavi Kalidasu which won the President's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Telugu. In 1962 he directed Gundamma Katha which was commercially successful and received the Filmfare Award for Best Film – Telugu. In the same year, he directed another biographical film, Mahamantri Timmarusu which won the President's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Telugu at the 10th National Film Awards. In 1963, Kameswara Rao directed the epic mythological film Nartanasala. The film is cited among CNN-IBN's list of the hundred greatest Indian films of all time. The film has received wide critical acclaim and has garnered the National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film at the 11th National Film Awards, and has secured the Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Film.