Sarvottam Badami was an Indian film director of Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil films.
15 Facts About Sarvottam Badami
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Sarvottam Badami started his career as a sound recordist for the first talkie in India, Alam Ara.
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Sarvottam Badami passed his SSLC and worked as a garage mechanic and then a projectionist in Select Picture House, Bangalore, both of which were owned by Ambalal Patel.
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At the age of 19 years, Sarvottam Badami went to Bombay to study automobile engineering.
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Sarvottam Badami was asked by Ardeshir Irani who met him at a wedding to help out with the recording equipment he had purchased from abroad.
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Sarvottam Badami helped in the sound recording department for the first Talkie in India, Ardeshir Irani's Alam Ara.
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Around that time a German director making the film Harishchandra left half-way and Badami offered to complete it, although the Play director was T C Vadivelu Naicker.
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Sarvottam Badami was contracted by Sagar Movietone to direct three films, two in Telugu and one in Tamil: Galava Rishi, Sri Rama Paduka Pattabhishekam and Sakunthala in Telugu.
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Sarvottam Badami's working team had people like the cinematographer Faredoon Irani, music director Anil Biswas and the Sagar Movietone favourites Sabita Devi and Motilal.
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Sarvottam Badami was paid Rs 2000 per film with the complete film being made within Rs 50,000.
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Sarvottam Badami brought Mehboob Khan who was then doing roles as an extra out of obscurity and gave him the role of Sabita Devi's father in the film Vengeance is Mine.
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Sarvottam Badami became known for his satirical comedies and "socially relevant films".
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Sarvottam Badami showed his understanding of media publicity required for films when in 1937, Badami resorted to woo audiences by announcing cash prizes of Rs.
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Apparently, in 1948 Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel, who was then in charge of Information Ministry, on a visit to the Cine Laboratories Bombay, asked Sarvottam Badami to help set up a News Reel and Documentary section.
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Sarvottam Badami became chief producer in the newsreel department and made several documentaries.