Sarvottam Badami (1910–2005) was an Indian film director of Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil films.[1] He started his career as a sound recordist for the first talkie in India, Alam Ara (1931).[2] In 1948 he helped set up the Films Division for news-reel and documentaries, where he worked as the chief producer in the newsreel department and also made documentaries.[3] His active years were from 1932 to 1952 when he retired from the Films Division and from making feature films to settle in Bangalore.[4]
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SarvottamBadami (1910–2005) was an Indian film director of Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil films. He started his career as a sound recordist for the first talkie...
Motilal were Dr. Madhurika (1935) and Kulvadhu (1937) directed by SarvottamBadami. Their first film together was Shaher Ka Jadoo (1934), which was also...
Company), where she acted in a film called Kokila (1937), directed by SarvottamBadami, starring Motilal, Sabita Devi and Sitara Devi. Her other film for...
by the Government of India's Films Division. Indian film director SarvottamBadami had earlier made another documentary on him, Vinoba Bhave, in 1951...
a 1932 Indian Telugu-language mythological drama film directed by SarvottamBadami. Yadavalli Suryanarayana, who was a renowned stage actor played the...
produced Rama Paduka Pattabhishekam and Sakunthala, both directed by SarvottamBadami. Neither the producer nor the director of these two films were Telugus...
artists who rose to prominence. Early directors such as Prafulla Ghosh, SarvottamBadami, Ezra Mir and Nanubhai Vakil were promoted by the company. Mehboob...
drama film Vengeance Is Mine (1935 film), a Hindi film directed by SarvottamBadami Vengeance Is Mine (1949 film), a British film starring Valentine Dyall...
acted under Ezra Mir in one more film Premi Pagal (1933) and with SarvottamBadami in Chandrahasa (1933). These films made him very popular with the audience...
character roles to comedy performing in Dr. Madhurika (1935), directed by SarvottamBadami, Deccan Queen (1936) and Do Diwaane (1936), by C. Luhar. Advani also...
a 1937 Indian Hindi-language social family drama film directed by SarvottamBadami. Made under the Sagar Movietone banner it had music by Pransukh M Nayak...
direction of Vasant Desai. Then came Uttara Abhimanyu, directed by SarvottamBadami for Paras Pics and co-starring Shahu Modak; Panihari directed by V...
Uttara Abhimanyu is an Indian Hindi-language film. It was released in 1946. "Gomolo". Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 12 April...
Director Production Music Cast Harichandra (Sampoorna Harichandra) SarvottamBadami, T. C. Vadivelu Naicker Sagar Film Company Chimanlal Desai Raja Chandrasekar...
Ramayani is a 1945 Hindi mythological film directed by SarvottamBadami for Purnima Productions. The music direction was by S. N. Tripathi with lyrics...
Chandrahasa (1929) by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, Chandrahasa (1933) by SarvottamBadami, Chandrahasan (1936) by Profulla Ghosh, Chandrahasa (1941) by M. L...