Halebeedu Ramachandra Shastry

Halebeedu Ramchandra Shastry was an Indian actor and dubbing artist who was well-known for his work in the Kannada film industry. He was born on November 2, 1905. Halebeedu Ramchandra Shastry’s place of birth is Halebeedu village near Melukote in Pandavapura taluk in Mysore district, Kingdom of Mysore (present in Mandya district, Karnataka). His father was an astrologer. His brother’s name is Vijaya Narasimha Vijaya Narasimha was an Indian lyricist from Banga >> Read More... , and he was an Indian lyricist. He has a great-granddaughter, Anu Prabhakar Her mother Gayathri Prabhakar, the dubbing artist >> Read More... , an Indian actress.

Halebeedu Ramchandra Shastry took tutelage at five under Narasimha Somayaji, where he developed a strong interest in the Kannada language and culture & art. He was drawn towards acting & theatre during his secondary education at Sarada Vilas High School, Mysore. When he turned fifteen, he began working at a railway workshop and simultaneously pursued his interest in acting. He went on to perform for the Mohammed Peer Theatre group and A. V. Varadachar’s Rathnavali theatre group. He was noted for his performances as Siddha in “Samsara Nauke,” as a shepherd in Peer’s “Gautama,” and as Dildar in “Shah Jahan.”

Afterward, Halebeedu Ramchandra Shastry joined H. L. N. Simha theatre group, Simha’s selected artists, before commencing his troupe “Manjunatheshwara Nataka Mandali.” Later, he suffered financial losses with the troupe, which led him to focus on his already-begun film acting career. Halebeedu Ramchandra Shastry marked his film debut in Varadacharya’s Tamil-language film “Bhakta Amabareesha.” In 1941, he acted in his first Indian Kannada film, “ Subhadra The Mahabharata is the most popular fictional tale >> Read More... ,” directed by P. Pullaiah and produced by Gubbi Veeranna Gubbi Veeranna was a veteran theater personality w >> Read More... . In the film, he portrayed the role of Dharmaraya. In 1954, he portrayed the role of the deity Shiva in the Kannada-language Hindu mythological film “Bedara Kannappa,” directed by H. L. N. Simha and written by G. V. Iyer.

The film earned the Certificate of Merit at the Second National Film Awards for the Best Feature Film in Kannada. He portrayed the prominent role of a father-in-law who demands dowry in a 1957 Kannada social drama “Rayara Sose,” produced by R. Ramamurthy and K. S. Murthy. In a career spanning over forty years, Halebeedu Ramchandra Shastry portrayed several supporting roles. He is noted for his performances in Rayara Sose (1957), Bhoodana (1962), Bedara Kannappa (1954), Sri Srinivasa Kalyana (1974), and Upasane (1974). His hundredth film was Rajkumar starrer “Immadi Pulikeshi.” His last movie was a 1977 Kannada film “Pavana Ganga,” directed by Y. R. Swamy and produced by C. Jayaram. Halebeedu Ramchandra Shastry died on December 12, 1976, at the age of seventy-one.