• the entire Kannada film industry lead by Dr.Rajkumar participated in the Gokak agitation to demand the first language status of Kannada in the Indian state of Karnataka?

Facts on topics related to Kannada film industry

Kannada cinema

• Kannada cinema star Dr. Rajkumar was buried at Kanteerava Studios in Bangalore?
• nearly 3 million rupees worth of property was stolen from the house of Kannada cinema actor Srinath on the day of his daughter's marriage in 2001?

Kannada

• centenarian Nittoor Srinivasa Rau, was the first chief of the Central Vigilance Commission of India and also the first to translate Mahatama Gandhi's autobiography to Kannada?
• Kannada poet and Indian political activist Kayyara Kinyanna Rai published his first journal, Susheela, at the age of 12?
• Andayya's 13th century Kannada work Kabbigara Kava is considered important for its strict adherence to the indigenous Kannada language?
• B. V. Karanth trained alongside Dr. Rajkumar under Gubbi Veeranna, one of the pioneers of Kannada theater?
• Chavundaraya, the builder of the Gomateshwara monolith (pictured) at Shravanabelagola, was an army commander, minister and a famous writer of Kannada and Sanskrit literature?
• G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary?
• K. Chidananda Gowda, the former Vice-chancellor of the Kuvempu University in India, is the son-in-law of the Kannada playwright Kuvempu, the university's namesake?
• Kishan Shrikanth, age ten, is in the process of directing a Kannada-language feature film, C/o Footpath, which will almost certainly make him the youngest director ever to release a commercial feature film?
• Lakshmisha's 16th century Kannada writing, the Jaimini Bharata, focuses on the horse sacrifice chapter of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata?
• Prema Karanth is the first woman to direct a Kannada film?

Rajkumar

• B. V. Karanth trained alongside Dr. Rajkumar under Gubbi Veeranna, one of the pioneers of Kannada theater?
• the entire Kannada film industry lead by Dr.Rajkumar participated in the Gokak agitation to demand the first language status of Kannada in the Indian state of Karnataka?