B. N. Subramanya | |
|---|---|
| Born | Badoor N. Subramanya |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Badoor N. Subramanya, also known asBanasu orSubbanna, is an Indian film journalist and critic known for his work onAndolana andViggy.com.
Subramanya is fromKasaragod. During college, he participated in theatre. As part of theNCC, he participated in anAdvanced Leadership Camp and a mountaineering camp atManali in 1972 and has aC certificate. He did his post-graduate studies atCalicut University in 1976. He worked as a lecturer at JSS College inDharwad before joining theChitradeepa film magazine as a journalist. He worked on several publications such as theChitratara,Janavaahini,Karmaveera, andSamyuktha Karnataka.[1][2]
Starting in 1992, Subramanya worked as a media representative at theInternational Film Festival of India.[1] In 2002, he and fellow journalist Roopa Hegde foundedViggy.com, which was one of the only websites regularly covering Kannada cinema in the 2000s apart fromChitraloka.com.[3][4][5][6] The website featured articles in both English and Kannada.[7] He wrote theNaa Kanda Rajkumar column forViggy.com.[8] He has also worked in the editorial department on the two volume book series by the Kannada University in Hampi published in 2002 on the history of Kannada cinema titledKannada Chitrarangada Itihasa.[8][9] In 2004, he won the Appaji Gowda Memorial award presented by the Karnataka Union of Working Journalists.[8] Starting in 2006, Subramanya was also associated with theBengaluru International Film Festival. Subramanya worked as an advisory panel member at theCBFC regional office in Bengaluru. He was member for the Southern Region II at the62nd National Film Awards in 2015.[1]
Subramanya worked for as a freelance journalist for theWide Angle section of the Mysore-basedAndolana daily.[1][8] He was one of the awardees ofBengaluru Mahanagara Palike'sKempegowda Awards in 2019.[1] In 2023, he was the president for Karnataka Chalanachitra Patrakartara Sangha, an association for Karnataka film journalists that was formed that year.[10][11] He sent nine articles fromAndolana in both Kannada and English to theNational Film Awards and won the Critic Special Mention Award at the69th National Film Awards later that same year.[2][12][13]