Kannan Shankar (17 March 1926 - 5 March 2006) was an Indian film editor, screenwriter and director. He directed more than 80 films in South Indian languages including

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and

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as well as in

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Film career

Shankar started his film career as an editor Assistant at

Central Studios Central Studios was an Indian film studio in the neighbourhood of Singanallur, Coimbatore, Singanallur, Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, started by B.Rangaswamy Naidu (a.k.a. B. R. Naidu) and other prominent industrialists like Swamikannu Vincent of C ...

, Coimbatore in 1939 and later moved to

Pakshiraja Studios Pakshiraja Studios was a motion picture movie studio in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, established by S. M. Sriramulu Naidu in 1945. The studio predominantly produced movies in Tamil language, Tamil, Telugu language, Telugu, Hindi and Malayal ...

. He later became a successful editor at AVM Studios, before moving into film direction. He gave blockbuster film Alaya mani (1962) for Sivaji Ganesan highest grosser of that year and went on to direct 7 Sivaji Ganesan films. He gave superhits like Rajkumar (1964) and Sachaai (1969) with Shammi kapoor and Sadhana in lead roles. Next to P. Neelakantan, Shankar was also credited with creating M. G. Ramachandran's (MGR) movie persona, in 8 movies he had directed MGR. MGR chose Shankar to direct his own production, ''"Adimai Penn"''.

Filmography

Death

Shankar died due to heart attack at his residence on 5 March 2006 at the age of 79. He is married to Kamakshi Ammal and has six children. He has daughters Vijayalakshmi, Rukmani and Radha and sons Sivaprasad, Saseetharan and Ganesan. Sivaprasad made his directorial debut with '' Kalyana Rasi'' (1991).

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shankar, K. 1926 births 2006 deaths Tamil film editors Tamil film directors Kannada film directors Telugu film directors Malayalam film directors Screenwriters from Kerala Telugu film editors Malayalam film editors Film directors from Kerala Film editors from Kerala 20th-century Indian screenwriters