Chittanahalli Venkatakrishna Shivashankar Shastry (23 March 1933 – 27 June 2023), also known as Chittanahalli Venkatakrishna Bhatta, was an Indian film director and producer, screenwriter, lyricist and dialogue writer who predominantly worked in the

Kannada film industry Kannada cinema, also known as Sandalwood, or Chandanavana, is the segment of Cinema of India, Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Kannada language widely spoken in the state of Karnataka. Kannada cinema is based ...

Career

C. V. Shivashankar began his career as an actor and assistant director from the Kannada movie ''

Rathna Manjari ''Rathna Manjari'' () is a 1962 Indian Kannada-language film, directed and produced by Hunsur Krishnamurthy, with D. Puttaswamy serving as co-producer. The film stars Udaykumar, Narasimharaju, K. S. Ashwath and C. V. Shivashankar, with a musica ...

'' starring

Udaykumar Bommasandra Srinivasaiah Suryanarayana Murthy (16 March 1933 – 26 December 1985), known professionally as Uday Kumar, was an Indian actor, writer, and film producer who worked primarily in Kannada cinema. Along with Rajkumar and Kalyan Kumar ...

, M. P. Shankar, Narasimharaju, Leelavathi and others. Later he acted in few Kannada movies, and he become full-fledged director from the movie ''

Padavidhara ''Padavidhara'' ( ) is a 1967 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by C. V. Shivashankar and produced by C. K. Gowda. The film stars Udaykumar, Kalpana, T. N. Balakrishna and Narasimharaju in the lead roles. The musical score for the film ...

'' starring

Kalpana Kalpana may refer to: Film and television * ''Kalpana'' (1948 film), an Indian Hindi-language dance film * ''Kalpana'' (1960 film), a romantic Bollywood film * ''Kalpana'' (1970 film), an Indian Malayalam film * ''Kalpana'' (2012 film), an I ...

, T. N. Balakrishna and Narasimharaju in the lead roles.

Personal life

Both of his sons

Venkat Bharadwaj Venkat Bharadwaj is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor who predominately works in Kannada-language films. He is best known for the film ''Kempiruve'' (2017) for which he won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenpla ...

and Karthik Urs initially worked in the IT industry before transitioning to film careers. Shivashankar died from a heart attack on 27 June 2023, at the age of 90.

Filmography

Awards

* 1991 – Karnataka Rajyotsava Award by

Government of Karnataka The Government of Karnataka, abbreviated as GoK or GoKA, formerly known as Government of Mysore (1956–1974), is a democratically elected state body with the governor as the ceremonial head to govern the Southwest Indian state of Karnataka ...

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