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<!-- M.S. Narasimha Murthy has gained vast popularity over the past three decades through his humorous writings in periodicals and collections. 50 works of his have been published so far. Two of his books namely ‘‘Swayam vadhu’’ in 1974 and ‘‘Vargavargi’’ in 1992 bagged the ‘‘State Sahitya Academy Award’’. Samagrahasya’’ authored by him, a huge collection of his humorous writings, running to more than 1000 pages, was published in 1978 and has been a milestone publication in the field of Kannada Humor. One
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frequently has the privilege of listening to his talks and comic plays broadcast over ALL INDIA RADIO. He has been conferred with ‘‘Indira Priyadarshini Award’’ for best dialogues in Doordarshan Serials for the year 1996. During 1997, he was conferred with the prestigious ‘‘Navarathnaram Award’’ for his contribution to the Karnataka literature, ‘‘Beechi Award’’ for humorous lectures and ‘‘Araya Bhata Award’’ for the serial Paa. Pa. Pandu, and Life time achivement Tele Award. (2009)


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He was the president of Kolar District Sahitya Sammelana which was held during February 2010. He has written Screen play & dialogues for more than 5000 episodes.


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Bangalore Doordarshan and all the others Kannada T.V. channels have telecast several of his serials ‘‘Crazy Colonel’’ is rated to be one of the best, judging by the viewership it attracted. Paa. Pa. Pandu, the First Mega Comedy serial in Kannada has won the hearts of all ages it has completed 1014 single episodes which is first of its kind in India. The other serial Silly Lalli has completed 1162 episodes and stands first in the Kannada serial field. (ETV Kannada) At present two more serials namely ‘‘Parvathi Parameswara’’ 600 Episodes & ‘‘Panduranga Vittala’’ 500 Episodes are running successfully in ZEE KANNADA Channel.


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Setting foot into filmdom, Shri M.S. Narasimha Murthy has contributed by way of script for the films - ‘‘Athi Madhura Anuraga’’, ‘‘Giddu Dada’’, ‘‘Yamalokadalli Veerappan’’ , ‘‘Kattegalu sar Kattegalu’’, Etc... He has served as the member of central Board of Film certification. Shri M.S. Narasimha murthy hails from Malur of Kolar District. He is M.A., in Kannada. He has P.G. Diploma in Journalism by securing first rank. After serving State Bank of Mysore in various capacities, he opted for voluntary retirement from Malur branch where he was working as a Manager till 31.3.2001. Presently he is devoting all his time for Kannada Literature.


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He was invited to England to participate in ‘‘Millennium Kannada meet’’ in the year 2000 where he delivered humorous talks at several places including one at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, London. He has delivered humoursit talks at Muscot, Dubai, Abudhabhi, Sharjah, Katar, Etc.,