Umashree
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Bemgaluru: The state government on Thursday announced the list of Lifetime Achievement Awards presented for cinema, for the calendar year 2019.
Senior actor, theatre personality and politician Umashree, known for movies like Gulabi Talkies and Kanasemba Kudureyaneri, was conferred with the Dr Rajkumar Lifetime Achievement Award, which is presented to actors.
N R Nanjunde Gowda who made films like ‘Naanu Gandhi’ was named the recipient of the Puttanna Kanagal award — lifetime achievement award given to film
directors.
The Dr Vishnuvardhan award, presented for lifetime contribution to Kannada cinema, was presented to Richard
Castelino.
Raghunath C H’s ‘Belli Tore – Cinema Prabhandagalu’ was selected as the best book on cinema for the year 2019. The best short film award went to ‘Gule’, directed by Srinath S Hadagali.