School Master (1958 film)

School Master
Poster
Directed byB. R. Panthulu
Produced byB. R. Panthulu
Starring
CinematographyW. R. Subba Rao
Karnan
Edited byR. Devarajan
Music byT. G. Lingappa
Distributed byPadmini Pictures
Release date
  • 31 January 1958 (1958-01-31)
Running time
164 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

School Master is a 1958 Indian Kannada-language film produced and directed by B. R. Panthulu. The film stars Panthulu himself in the lead role along with Dikki Madhava Rao, M. V. Rajamma, Udaykumar, Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan and B. Saroja Devi in important roles. This was the first Kannada film to complete a silver jubilee.[1][2] The film had its children's dance drama in Gevacolor, taken by cinematographer W. R. Subba Rao. It was later remade in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi in spite of it being dubbed in Tamil and Telugu as Engal Kudumbam Perisu and Badi Pantulu respectively.

In 1959, ALS Productions remade it in Hindi as School Master which was also directed by Panthulu. The film was remade in Malayalam in 1964 as School Master by Puttanna Kanagal, in Telugu in 1972 as Badi Panthulu and in Tamil in 1973 as School Master.[3]

School Master was the first Kannada film to be remade in five languages and also the first Kannada film to be remade in three other South Indian languages.[4] The movie is based on 1937 English movie Make Way for Tomorrow[5] which has been adapted multiple times including in Japanese as Tokyo Story (1953), in Marathi as Oon Paus (1954), in Tamil as Varavu Nalla Uravu (1990), in Pakistani as Samaj (1972) and twice in Hindi as Zindagi (1976) and Baghban (2003).[6]

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  2. ^ "From School Master to Om: Kannada movies that have unique 'first film ever' tag attached to it". Times Now. 6 April 2021. Archived from the original on 12 February 2024. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  3. ^ "ಅತೀ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಭಾಷೆಗೆ 'ರಿಮೇಕ್‌' ಆದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಿನಿಮಾಗಳ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ!". Vijay Karnataka (in Kannada). Archived from the original on 17 November 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  4. ^ "From 'School Master' to 'U Turn': A look at Kannada films remade in other Indian languages". The Times of India. 15 April 2020. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  5. ^ Biradar, Basav (22 April 2020). "Roopa Rao's Gantumoote: Is This The Dawn Of A New Era In Kannada Cinema?". Film Companion. Archived from the original on 18 August 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  6. ^ "E Bandhana Review". IndiaGlitz. 22 December 2007. Archived from the original on 6 February 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.