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Renowned filmmaker Kasinadhuni Viswanath dead

Dadasaheb Phalke awardee and renowned filmmaker Kasinadhuni Viswanath died at a private hospital in Hyderabad at around midnight on Thursday. He was 92.

Viswanath, 92, was not keeping well for some time now as he was suffering from age-related problems.

Viswanath, popularly known as ‘Kalatapasvi’, was born in February 1930 in Andhra Pradesh. He made 50 movies since 1965 and was a prominent name in Telugu cinema as well as Tamil and Hindi films. He received the Dadasaheb Phalke award, the top honour in Indian cinema, in 2016.

IN Bureau

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