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Dr. Raj Kumar is a Living legend in kannada film industry.
He is also a winner of Dadasaheb Phalke award and the highest state award 'Karnataka Ratna', Dr Rajkumar, in a career spanning five decades, has played with aplomb a variety of roles in films like Tenali Raman, Bhukailasa, Mahishasura Mardhini, Ranadheera Kanteerava, Kittur Channamma and Bhoodana etc.
Born in Gajanur, Karnataka, in 1929, Kannada superstar Dr Rajkumar has to his credit over 200 films - that approximately comprises 25 % of the Kannada industry! Starting out young, he played Arjuna as a child actor in the stage spectacular Kurukshetra (1924). His first adult break, though, came through R Nagendra Rao and Subbaiah Naidu's theatre company, playing Narada in Bhukailasa (repeating the role in K. Shankar's 1958 film version) and Ramakant in Ambarish.
In fact, Tamil thespian Shivaji Ganeshan after watching Bhakta Kumbara is believed to have said that nobody can repeat Rajkumar's mesmerizing performance in the film.
In a career that spanned 45 years, Dr Raj, as he was fondly called, acted in 205 films, ranging from the mythological to social dramas.
Staying away from politics and from acting in any non-Kannada films, DrRajkumar enjoyed the sort of popularity that could come only from immense talent and touching humility.
Rajkumar was born Mutturaj Singanalluru Puttaswamayya in 1929 in Gajanur, Karnataka.
The film also marked the debut of GV Iyer as scriptwriter and looked at Rajkumar and Pandharibai as gods banished to earth where they are born to a tribe of hunters and weather all the tests the gods impose on them.
Rajkumar substantially began to cut down his workload in the mid 1980s and retired more or less from acting and became apProducer to promote his sons as leading men in Kannada films.
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