B. S. Ranga
Born	Bindiganavile Srinivas Iyengar Ranga (1917-11-11)11 November 1917 Magadi,Kingdom of Mysore,British India
Died	12 December 2010(2010-12-12) (aged 93) Chennai,Tamil Nadu, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Film director, producer, cinematographer, screenwriter

Bindiganavile Srinivas Iyengar Ranga (11 November 1917 – 12 December 2010^[1]) was an Indian photographer, actor, producer and director who has made many landmark movies inKannada,Telugu, andTamil. He was also the owner of Vikram Studios.^[2] He has directed and produced about 87 films in these three languages with a maximum of 18 films in Kannada alone starring matinee idolRajkumar.^[3]

He was born to aHebbar Iyengar family inMagadi Village (nearBare, India)Mysore (now part ofKarnataka State). After an art-enriched childhood wherein he interacted with many stage personalities, B.S. Ranga entered the field of photography. At the age of 17, the self-trained Ranga sent some of his work to be exhibited at theRoyal Salon in London, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of theRoyal Photographic Society.

Subsequently, he moved toBombay (nowMumbai) and apprenticed himself to the cameraman and laboratory technician,Krishna Gopal. B.S. Ranga then embarked on a film career lasting more than five decades, during which he played the roles of cinematographer, director, producer, laboratory owner, studio owner, exhibitor and script-writer, sometimes all at once for one of his productions. His production company, Vikram Productions, gained prominence in the 1960s and 1970s, and won B.S. Ranga many awards, including two President's Awards. The first was forTenali Ramakrishna inTelugu (starringN.T. Rama Rao andAkkineni Nageswara Rao), and the second was forAmarshilpi Jakkanachari, the first colour movie produced in Kannada.

National Film Awards:

• All India Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film in 1957.^[4]
• 1956 –President's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Telugu –Tenali Ramakrishna^[4]

• B. S. Ranga atIMDb

• 1917 births
• 2010 deaths
• Kannada film directors
• Telugu film directors
• Tamil film directors
• Hindi-language film directors
• Telugu film cinematographers
• Kannada film cinematographers
• Kannada film producers
• Telugu film producers
• Tamil film producers
• Kannada screenwriters
• People from Ramanagara district
• Film directors from Karnataka
• Film producers from Karnataka
• Screenwriters from Karnataka
• 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
• Cinematographers from Karnataka

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