Viswanath was 92. Years old, he was undergoing treatment for age-related health issues at a private hospital in Hyderabad. His rituals and last rite rituals are being held in Hyderabad.
Superstar Chiranjeevi along with filmmaker SS Rajamouli, MM Keeravani and whole lot more attended the last rites and bid adieu to the late director.
Viswanath started his professional life as an audiographer. His filmmaking career began under director Adurthi Subba Rao after a brief stint as a sound engineer, and he later went on to work as an assistant director for the Telugu film Pathala Bhairavi in 1951.
With the 1965 movie Aatma Gowravam, Viswanath made his directorial debut and went on to win the state Nandi award.
Viswanath made his Bollywood debut with 1979 film Sargam, which is a remake of his 1976 Siri Siri Muvva. Some of his other popular Hindi films include Kaamchor, Shubh Kaamna, Jaag Utha Insan, Sanjog, Eeshwar and Dhanwaan.
He also made films in Tamil. He was bestowed with the highest cinematic honour of the country, Dadasaheb Phalke award in 2016. He also did many collaborations with Rakesh Roshan in Bollywood.
About Newshelpline
News Helpline is a Brand in the world of daily Bollywood Content. We are a team of Innovative, Hard working and Creative people working in media since last 15 years. We were the first to sense the changing phase of News Industry with the progress of IT industry. Hence in the year 2008 we came up with a first of its kind Bollywood News Application, a website where we uploaded Bollywood news on daily basis and our client could download this news from anywhere in the world on the same day of the event. Then with the passage of time we improved and evolved. The result is today our client in any area of the world receives their Bollywood news (HD quality) within 2-3 hrs. post event. The value of News is very Time dependent and we at News Helpline deliver the News before thay become rumors.