K Vishwanath the director of Shankarabharanam, Swati Mutyam is famous across the world in Telugu circles for his movies on art and culture. Now a biopic is being made on him and the director is Janardhana Maharishi. Vishwanath is famous for his movies like Sagarasangamam, Subhalekha. He along with Kamalahassan have made movies which were a hit at the box office. Tanikella Bharani is also doing a character role in the movie.
Vishwanath stared his career as a sound engineer and later he turned out to be one of the most popular directors that India has produced from the Tollywood. His Sankarabharfanam is a world-famous movie which goes against the western culture and proves that Indian music is almost on par with music in other forms and cultures.
Almost all the movies he has done with Yediga Nageshwar Rao were a super duper hit. The songs in his movies had a deep sense of Indian culture and religion and acclaimed by one and all.