The rivalry between the two titans of Kannada cinema Dr Raj Kumar and Dr Vishnuvardhan, more real than imagined, was one of the ever-green stories emanating from Gandhinagar.
Oddly, the two of them starred together in only one movie, Gandhada Gudi, directed by M.P. Shankar. After that, their professional paths never crossed, but the friction of their first and only on-screen face-off remained forever.
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The politics in the Kannada film industry and the controlling forces behind the scenes harmed the real growth – qualitatively -. The end result is that good movies -excepting very rarely-have not made their appearance. Technicaly they may be good bot totally it is a mess.