Veteran
filmmaker
Nagesh
Babu
passed
away
on
October
6
due
to
age-related
illness.
He
was
87.
The
director
breathed
his
last
at
a
private
hospital
in
Bengaluru.
He
is
survived
by
his
wife
Shyamala
and
three
children.
Nagesh
Babu's
demise
is
indeed
a
big
loss
for
Sandalwood.
Nagesh
Babu
had
directed
a
lot
of
iconic
Kannada
films
in
his
career.
In
1957,
he
started
his
film
career
as
an
assistant
director
for
the
film
Premada
Puthri.
Apart
from
assisting,
the
veteran
filmmaker
had
also
penned
dialogues
for
movies
such
as
Thoogudeepa
and
Nanna
Karthavya.
In
1970,
he
had
made
his
directorial
debut
with
the
film
Anireekshitha.
Notably,
he
even
bankrolled
the
film.
After
his
first
film,
Nagesh
Babu
established
Pragati
Studio
in
Bengaluru.
The
studio
has
so
far
produced
over
300
Kannada
films.
However,
in
2005,
the
renowned
studio
halted
its
operation
due
to
unknown
reasons,
and
since
then,
Nagesh
Babu
stayed
away
from
the
limelight.
Notably,
Nagesh
Babu's
87-minute-long
documentary
Tatvamasi-You
Are
That
(2009)
(English)
was
screened
on
various
international
platforms.