Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi & Pawan Kalyan Congratulate K Viswanath!

The thespian director K Vishwanath recently received the Dadasaheb Phalke award at the 64th National Awards. Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan congratulated the veteran.

By Mayur Javali

K Viswanath, one of the most celebrated directors and prominent personalities of Telugu Cinema was conferred with the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award, the highest award in Indian cinema at the 64th National awards. The 87-year-old thespian started his career as a sound recordist and then took the plunge into direction in the year 1965.

The veteran director has worked in Telugu, Tamil & Hindi movies and has made over 50 movies. Being a recipient of 9 Filmfare awards, Kasinathuni Viswanath has been felicitated with National award for as many as 5 times and is also a proud recipient of India's fourth highest civilian honour, Padma Shri , which was conferred to him in the year 1992.

 Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi & Pawan Kalyan Congratulate K Viswanath!

With a career spanning over 6 decades, Dr. K Viswanath has worked in numerous movies in the capacity of a film director, screenwriter and actor. If the stalwart has called action-cut to some classic movies for the likes of Telugu's Megastar Chiranjeevi and versatile actor Kamal Haasan, then the former has shared space with India's Superstar Rajinikanth on screen.

Viswanath also became the 7th Telugu personality to receive the prominent award after Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy (1974), Paidi Jairaj (1980), L.V. Prasad (1982), B Nagi Reddy (1986), Akkineni Nageswar Rao (1990) & D Ramanaidu (2009).

Soon after the delightful news broke out, our Thalaiva, as usual took time and wished the legendary eminent personality through his twitter account.

"I salute respected Shri K Viswanathji for being conferred with the much deserved honour ... #DadasahebPhalkeAward."

Post Enthiran, in a public function which saw both Viswanath and Rajinikanth sharing the same dice, the latter mentioned the fact that he was still being eluded of an opportunity to work with the legendary director and that he always craved for one such instance.

 Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi & Pawan Kalyan Congratulate K Viswanath!

Rajini's remark was soon followed by Viswanath's instant response where he was quoted saying "Rajini, it's still not late, we can do" which evoked smile on the faces of both legends.

However, the director has given some masterpieces to Chiranjeevi, Venkatesh and Kamal Haasan in the Telugu language and had been a major contributor for the latter actor's success in the 1990s era.

 Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi & Pawan Kalyan Congratulate K Viswanath!

Rajini's twitter wishes were followed by Annaya-Tammudu's personal visit to the eminent director's residence who were seen wishing the Swati Mutyam director.

 Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi & Pawan Kalyan Congratulate K Viswanath!

Chiranjeevi who has worked with the ace director wasted no time in showing his respect and adulation towards the director whilst his brother, Powerstar Pawan Kalyan who was accompanied by his friend-director, wished the veteran director.

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