Veteran producer KCN Chandrashekhar dies at age 69

Sunday night saw the demise of veteran producer

KCN Chandrashekhar

, whose family banner has made some of the

timeless classics

in

Kannada

cinema, including some of Dr Rajkumar's best works like

Babruvahana

. The

producer

was admitted to a private hospital in Bengaluru where he was undergoing treatment. He died due to multiple organ failures, according to reports.

Chandrashekhar's final rites were conducted at his residence in Bengaluru on Monday morning. The veteran filmmaker had been one of the most amicable persons, who always had a lending ear to all those who wanted to seek advice or opinion from him and many from the film industry offered their condolences to the veteran producer's family, over phone, social media and in person.

Among those who posted condolence messages on social media and shared the news of Chandrashekhar's passing to people was actor and activist Chetan Kumar. He wrote, "Producer KCN Chandrashekar passed away tonight. In 1977 his banner produced popular film ‘Babruvahana’. When I was 4 yrs old, I enacted legendary dialogue between father-son Arjuna & #Babruvahana across US. Mr Chandrashekar was kind, hospitable whenever we spoke. We will miss him."

Chandrashekhar's father, late KCN Gowda, was considered to be alegendary movie producer, distributor, and exhibitor in Kannada cinema. Gowda is still remembered fondly by Kannada film lovers for some of his timeless classic Kannada movies like Sharapanjara, Babruvahana, and Daari Thappida Maga.