Dr. Rajkumar - Annavaru » dr. rajkumar http://www.annavaru.com Legendary Actor of Kannada Cinema Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:18:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Dr. Rajkumar’s charity work http://www.annavaru.com/snippets/dr-rajkumars-charity-work/ http://www.annavaru.com/snippets/dr-rajkumars-charity-work/#comments Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:02:25 +0000 admin http://www.annavaru.com/?p=14 Dr. Rajkumar’s charity work

Very few people know about Rajkumar’s charity work. Rajkumar never spoke about his charity and had supposedly requested the journalists not write about it. He is supposed to have donated the proceedings from his devotional albums to charity and to have built an ashram for young widows and orphan girls. He toured Karnataka extensively to send donations to Kargil war victims. He donated a lot of money in aid of eye donation camps and conducted many blood donation camp on the occasion of his birthday. He was an eye donor and as per his wish, his eyes were donated after his death.

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Rajkumar received numerous state, national and international awards. He received an honorary doctorate from Mysore University in 1976. He won ten Filmfare awards for the best actor category which happens to be the second highest in the history of Indian films. He won 9 state awards in the best actor category.state awards for films was constituted by karnataka government in 1967 when rajkumar’s half the career was over .But still he managed to win 9 awards which happens to be the highest in the kannada film industry. He also won a National award in best singer category. He received the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India in 1983 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1995, in recognition of his contributions to the Kannada film industry.

He was rewarded Karnataka Ratna in the year 1993 by the Government of Karnataka. In the year 1985, Dr. Rajkumar had also won the prestigious Kentucky Colonel award presented in Bangalore by the then Governor of Kentucky state, USA. His fans have conferred him the title “Nata Saarvabhowma” (The Emperor of Acting).

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Notable roles

Rajeeva in Bangarada Manushya
Goraa in Bhakta Kumbara
Kalidasa in Kaviratna Kalidasa
Harishchandra in Satya Harishchandra
Mayura in Mayura
Jodidaar Vishwanathaiah in Jeevana Chaitra
Krishnadevaraya in Sri Krishnadevaraya

Rajkumar in a King’s role

1.Jagajyoti Basaveshwara – 1959 (Bijjaleshwara of Kalyana)
2.Ranadheera Kantheerava -1960 (Kantheerava of Mysore )
3.Kitturu Chennamma – 1961 (Mallasarja of Kittur)
4.Satya Harishchandra – 1965 (Harishchandra of Ujjaini)
5.Immadi Pulikeshi – 1967 (Immadi Pulikeshi of Chalukya dynasty, South India)
6.Sri Krishnadevaraaya – 1970 (Sri Krishsadevaraaya of Hampi (Vijayanagara)
7.Mayura 1975 (Mayuravarma – Banavasi – First Kannada king (from Kadambas))
8.Bhakta Prahlaada – 1983 ( Hiranyakashipu – Ahobala)

Rajkumar in a Police role

Pratigne
Janma Rahasya (CID)
Keralidha Simha
Bhale Huccha (CID)
Choori Chikkanna(CID)
Shankar Guru
Trimoorthi
Pratidhwani
Apoorva Sangama
Jedara Bale (CID 999 – Prakash)
Goadalli CID 999 (CID 999 – Prakash)
Operation Jackpot nalli CID 999 (CID 999 – Prakash)
Operation Diamond Racket (CID 999 – Prakash)
CID Rajanna (Rajanna)
Naanobba kalla
Bangalore Mail
Keralidha Simha(S.P. Shankar)
Akasmika (Narasimhamurthy)
Guri
Yarivanu
Shabdavedi (Sandeep)
Gandhada Gudi – Forest Range Officer (Kumar)

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The “Gokak report” popularly known as “Gokak varadi” was about making Kannada a compulsary language for primary education. Considering that the language is spoken by a majority of people in Karnataka, the Gokak movement’s goal was to give Kannada the same basic right already enjoyed by other official languages in their respective states of India. When the Kannada literary experts and students started this movement there was a popular positive response from the common man in Karnataka. It gained momentum when Rajkumar was asked to lead the movement. He became actively involved in the movement and soon became the force behind the Gokak movement that was designed to bring Kannada to the forefront. He took a rally from Belgaum to Bangalore and gave speeches about the importance of Kannada. The government responded positively and Kannada was to become a compulsary language of education in Karnataka. Ensuring respect and dignity for Kannada language and Kannada culture were the corner stones of his life.

When he played activist
The historic Gokak movement saw Rajkumar take an activist’s stand in public life. “I am ready for any sacrifice for the sake of Kannada land and language,” he declared, and stood by his words too.

To trace the time-line: It is nearly 25 years since the Gokak movement. Rajkumar himself had recently crossed 50 years in cinema. The man and the movement are both a memory now.

Kannada Sahitya Parishat President Prof Chandrashekar Patil who was alongside Rajkumar during the Gokak movement told Deccan Herald that the movement took the proportion of a ‘people’s movement’ only after Rajkumar joined in. He explained thus:

On April 2, 1982, the Jail Bharo andolan had begun under the leadership of senior litterateur Shambha Joshi. Writers like Kuvempu, Masti Venkatesh Iyengar, Dr. Shivaram Karanth were asked to join in but they refused. Rajkumar was in Madras then; we made an appeal to him through the media. His ready response in support appeared in the newspapers the very next day. His statement from Madras said that he would give up his all for the sake of Kannada and would fight for it no matter what form the fight might take. It was a verbal stroke that absorbed him into the cause entirely. Later on, he travelled all over the State with the other leaders enlisting support for the movement.

Sources:

http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr132006/state1930422006412.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr. _Rajkumar

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