On the eve of Block buster “Katheera”100 days , producer Rockline Venkatesh gifted cars to its core writers Jadeesha K Hampi & Masti which quite rare & also encouragement to writers in Kannada Film Industry.
Recall some earlier instances where writers / directors or technicians were recognised as stars above all & got booty rewards.
Post success of all time “Om” producer Dhanraj gifted Maruti Esteem car to Upendra but later took back when got delayed was big news that time.
Ajay Kumar aka Srikanthamurthy who gave hits with Shruthi , S Mahendar & S Narayan combo tear jerkers films used to command one of Core Distribution area rights worth lakhs in 90 era.
Thriller Manju “Police Story ” film fame writer SS David shot fame overnight & became busy with good payments among rest of others & again Thriller Manju film “Jackie Chan” fame writer Chinni Krishna who did not got his expected recognition & remuneration found booty in Telugu Film Industry with films of Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Allu Arjun etc ..
Telugu Film Star writers Parachuri Brothers story was used for Shashikumar Starrer ” Shiva” film in 90 era but how much they earned.
Crazy star V Ravichandran also used to pay richly his writers like Late NS Rao , B Suresh , Mohan etc .
Tamil Popular Engineer turned Sci fi writer Sujatha aka Rangarajan who was behind many hit films of Kamal Hassan , Maniratnam Shankar etc was writer for Kannada- Tamil bilingual film “Priya” & Ramesh Aravinds “Aryabhata” but what he paid not sure.
Mungaru Male fame writer Preetham Gubbi got good stardom but soon he turned Director.
Puneeth Rajkumars “Akash” film fame writer Janardhan Maharishi got highest payments for his films like Bindass, Parameshi Panawala , Bombaat etc in Kannada.
After blockbuster “Kirik Party” Rakshit Shetty initiated good financial payment & security to his core 7 odd horse team which continuing also giving Direction breaks.
Rishab Shetty as lead hero film “Bell Bottom” fame writer TK Dayanand rose to great heights but also disappeared soon .
Bahubali fame & SS Rajamouli father V Vijendraprasad got good payment for Nikhil Kumarswamy debut film “Jaguar “. Earlier he was writer for Vishuvardhan starrer “Appaji”
Many popular Author / Novelists commanded good royalty amount for their works to big screen.
Earlier during all South Indian Film Industry consolidated at Madras era writer G Balasubramaniam of Kasturi Nivasa , Mayor Muthana etc & many Tamil hit films used command good money as writer.
KCN Gowdru & sons , Dwarkeesh ,Puttana Kanagal etc used to treat their writers very well & pamper lot.
Hindi Film Star writers duo “Salim-Javed ” were story writers of Dr Rajkumar Starrer Kannada Films ” Premada Kanike” & Raaja Naana Raaja” but no much inputs how much they got paid.
Most sought & busy star writers of Kannada Film Industry ever saw or next never fulfilled by any one was MD Sundar & Chi Udayashankar duo but no much inputs what MD Sundar used to command but all say great about Udayashankar where no demand from producers on his payment. Only Kaikave Kailasa ..
Hope in future more writers ( exclusively for films ) comes with desire of ease of financial security & delivery profitable contents.
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Ajay KR
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