Legendary Film Maker K Viswanath's Top 10 Cult Classic Movies

Sankarabharanam is a Telugu musical drama film directed by K Viswanth garu in the year 1980. The movie deals with a popular Carnatic singer 'Sankarabharanam' Sankara Sastry. Sankarabharanam created numerous records at a theatrical run and also pored many national and international awards for the film. The film won the Prize of the Public at the "Besançon Film Festival of France" in the year 1981. In 2013, the poll conducted by CNN-IBN, Sankarabharanam came eleventh in the poll for finding the "greatest Indian film ever." 

Telugu musical dance film Sagara Sangamam was written and directed by K. Viswanath and produced by Nageswara Rao Edida. The film stars Kamal Haasan and Jaya Prada in the lead roles. After its release, the film received positive reviews and became a box-office hit. It features an aspiring multi-talented dancer Balu played by Kamal Haasan. It has won two National Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards South, and the Nandi Award for Best Feature Film (Bronze). According to CNN-IBN, the film ranks among the top 100 Indian films of all time.

It was dubbed into Tamil and Malayalam and released as Salangai Oli and Sagara Sangamam, respectively. 

Swathi Muthyam is a Telugu drama film written and directed by K. Viswanath and produced by Edida Nageswara Rao. The cast includes Kamal Haasan and Raadhika in the lead. Maestro Ilaiyaraaja did magic with his composing as every song in the film is a chartbuster. Swathi Muthyam was a blockbuster at the box office. Swathi Mutyam was officially selected by India for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 1986, but it was not nominated.

Swayam Krushi is family based movie in which, Chiranjeevi played a role of an illiterate cobbler sambayya. He raises his dead sister's son chinna (master arjun) and also finances orphaned sarada (sumalatha)'s education.His lover Ganga(Vijayasanthi) assists him in all his efforts. Later ganga sterilizes herself, so...

Swarnakamalam is a romantic musical entertainer written and directed by K. Viswanath and produced by Ch.V. Appa Rao while Ilayaraja scored music for this movie Venkatesh and Bhanupriya are played the main lead roles along with Shanmukha Srinivas, Sakshi Ranga Rao, Sri Lakshmi, Brahmanandam, Devilalita, Dubbing...

Subhalekha is family oriented movie in which, the story is made with a message on dowry and was a huge musical hit and a Jewel in the crown for our megastar. Sumalatha is a middle class girl who is well educated and beautiful. Her father tries to get her married but is not able to meet the demands of high...

Aapathbandhavudu is a Family drama based movie in which, Madhava (Chiranjeevi), is a loyal friend, servant, and cowherd to Hema (Meenakshi Seshadri) and her father (Jandhyala). He also stars in dramas, in which he plays Lord Shiva. Hema's father is a school teacher and is a great poet, but since his classical poetry...

Sruthilayalu is a Telugu musical drama film, directed by K. Viswanath. The cast includes Rajasekhar and Sumalatha in lead roles. K. V. Mahadevan's music was appreciated by critics at the time of the movie's release. It's a record at Nandi Awards as the film won eight Nandi awards in a different category. Director K Viswanth won the best director award at Filmfare Awards. Srythilayalu was dubbed in Tamil as Isaikku Oru Koil.