Complex sentence: After 7 years, used his contacts to shift to South Indian cinema and Bollywood and started to write plays in the 1960s, based on previous materials available at the press, translating them intoKannada.
Split into simpler sentences: After 7 years, used his contacts to shift to South Indian cinema and Bollywood. His started to write plays in the 1960s, based on previous materials available at the press, traslating them intoKannada.