- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGanapathy Venkataramana Iyer
- Nicknames
- Barefoot Director
- The Barefoot Director
- G.V. Iyer was born in September 1917 in Nanjangud, Mysore, British India. He was a writer and director, known for Adi Shankaracharya (1983), Bhagvad Gita: Song of the Lord (1993) and Bhoodana (1962). He died on December 21, 2003 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
- Having worked in films since the 1940s and authoring the first film in Sanskrit, his films often deal with seminal Hindu philosophers.
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