December , 2009
A Decent Star falls silent
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Early morning telephone calls always bring a bad news for me. This morning it brought the sad news of the untimely death of Vishnuvardhan. He was already a big hero, years before I was born. His unforgettable, intense role as Ramachari in Naagara Haavu had made him a household name in Karnataka, decades before I started to go to school! Teenagers like me who grew up during eighties and nineties had a strange liking for Vishnuvardhan. The gigantic Rajkumar was too big and too senior for our generation. The only other film hero who attracted us was Vishnuvardhan. He was young, he was charming, sophisticated, he wore nice clothes, rode motorbike and above all he was very good in fighting scenes. Rajkumar looked like a family headman. Vishnuvardhan looked like a caring, flamboyant elder brother. He was also very decent like Rajkumar. I had met him on many....
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D P Satish has been a journalist for the past 11 years. Born at picturesque Jog Falls in Shimoga district of Karnataka, Satish did his graduation in English Literature. He is a post-graduate in Journalism from the prestigious Asian College of Journalism, Bangalore (now in Chennai). After a brief stint with the Indian Express Group, he shifted to TV. He also worked for an American news magazine called ' Image '. He has widely travelled and covered some of the biggest events from South of Vindhyas in the first decade of the 21st century. He is passionate about English literature, classical music, cinema, history, photography, jazz and Cricket. A self-proclaimed centrist, Satish keenly follows major political developments from across the World. He blogs regularly and spends hours searching for readable material from the Internet! He belives that journalism is a calling and a person meant to be a journalist, can't escape from it. A hillman at heart and by birth, Satish lives and works in New Delhi. But, loves Bangalore more than Delhi!
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