Dorai-Bhagavan  Dorai-Bhagavan was an Indian filmmaking duo consisting of directors Dorai Raj and S.K.Bhagavan, active mainly in Kannada cinema. They directed 50 films, most of which starred Rajkumar in the lead role and were highly successful at box-office. 23 of those films were based on novels. Bhagavan has been principal of Adarsha Film Institute, Bangalore. Bhagavan was born on 5 July 1933. He completed his schooling in Bangalore High school. In his young age he was acting on stage dramas with Hirannaiah mithra mandali. He started his film career as an assistant to Kanagal Prabhakar Shastri in 1956 through the film "Bhagyodaya". He then went on to direct his debut movie "Sandhya Raaga" in 1966 with another director, M. C Narasimhamurthy, and later co-directed "Jedara Bale" with Dorai Raj under the name Dorai-Bhagavan. Thus becoming first directors to make James Bond-style movies in Kannada. The duo then directed movies like "Kasturi Nivasa", "Eradu Kanasu", "Bayalu dhari", "Gaali Mathu", "Chandanada Gombe", "Hosa Belaku", "Benkiya Bale", Jeevana Chaitra and more Bond-style movies such as "Goa dalli C.I.D 999", "Operation Jackpot C.I.D 999" and "Operation diamond racket". Apart from Rajkumar, the duo directed many movies with actors Ananth Nag and Lakshmi. After the death of Dorai Raj, Bhagavan ceased directing for many years – their last film was "Mangalya Bhandana" in 1993. In 2019, he made his comeback at the age of 85 with "Aduva Gombe", which marks 50th film of his direction. Bhagavan has been the principal of Adarsha Film Institute. Dorai-Bhagavan have directed a number of films. Apart from directing movies, Bhagavan has also acted some movies like Hosa belaku, Bhagyodaya, Mangala soothra, Rowdy Ranganna, Vasantha Geetha, Soothradhara and Bangalore Mail. He has mostly worked with music director duo Rajan-Nagendra for most of his films.