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The Department of Posts has released a commemorative postage stamp today on Shri K. Subrahmanyam, a renowned filmmaker of South Indian Cinema. A pioneer filmmaker at a time when the South Indian Cinema was at its infancy, Shri Subrahmanyam side-by-side instilled the nationalist spirit and a commitment to social issues in his films. He was the first South Indian filmmaker to produce a film in Hindi namely ‘Premsagar’. The credit of first Indian to direct a Singhalese film also went to Subrahmanyam. The stamp is in the denomination of Rs. 5.
Shri Subrahmanyam had his graduation from Kumbakonam College and done his Law at the Madras Law College and became a lawyer. But soon the creative urge in him drew him to the film industry where he began his career as an Assistant Director under the then noted film Director Raja Sandow.
Apart from silent films Shri Subrahmanyam made several mythological and social movies in Tamil and also a few in Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada. Shri Subrahmanyam was the Honorary Adviser for the then constituted Development of Visual Education of the erstwhile Government of Travancore. Shri Subrahmanyam played a vital role in the formation of Film Finance Corporation, Children’s Film Society of India, NFDC, the Film Institutes at Pune and Chennai, the National Film Archives in Pune, the Film Federation of India and the Central and State Sangeet Natak Academies. He was nominated by UNESCO as the Honorary Advisor to its International Films and Television Council for India and Far East. Shri Subrahmanyam has the pride of honoured by world’s two greatest Studios of USSR and the Hollywood.
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