Bapu (film director)
Sattiraju Lakshmi Narayana( 15 December 1933 – 31 August 2014), known professionally as Bapu, was an Indian film director, painter, illustrator, cartoonist, screenwriter, music artist, and designer known for his works in Telugu cinema, and bollywood.
In 2013, he was awarded the Padma Shri, for his contribution to Indian art and cinema.
Bapu's directorial venture" Saakshi" was showcased at" Tashkent International film festival" in 1968.
" Seeta Kalyanam" was screened at the BFI London Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, San Reno and Denver International Film Festivals in 1978, and is part of the course at the British Film Institute.
" Tyagayya"( 1981) and" Pelli Pustakam"( 1991) were premiered at the Indian Panorama of the International Film Festival of India.
Bapu's 2011 film," Sri Rama Rajyam", had a special screening at International Film Festival of India on 28 November 2011.
He has garnered two National Honors, two National Film Awards, seven state Nandi Awards, two Filmfare Awards South best Telugu director, and a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award – South for the year 2012.
In 1996, he appeared in the Doordarshan Documentary" Eminent Cartoonists of India", and was awarded Life Time Achievement from Indian Institute of Cartoonists in 2001.
He gained international recognition through his art works viz.," Bapu Bomma The Navarasas", and the" Indian Dances" etc., which were held at the National Film Theatre, London, in 1978 and at the innumerable Telugu Conferences in the United States.
He has worked as a graphic artist for" J Walter ThomsonEfficient Publicities" and" F. D. Stewarts", Chennai.
In 1964, he was a delegate at the UNESCO sponsored seminar in Bangalore on" Children's Books".
The same year, he gave demonstrations for the training course programme on book illustrations and cover designs sponsored by UNESCO in Chennai.
In the 1960s he has served as art Consultant for Ford Foundation sponsored" The Southern Language Book Trust".
He has designed and illustrated several books for leading publishers in South India out of which, five received Government Awards.
He has also done the same for innumerable works drawn from the puranas and folklore.
Radha Kalyanam (1981 film)
Radha Kalyanam is a 1981 Telugu drama film written by Mullapudi Venkata Ramana and directed by Bapu.
It is considered to be one of the best Telugu movies by critics.
It was a remake of the Tamil movie" Antha Ezhu Naatkal Those Seven Days"), directed by K. Bhagyaraj.
It was remade in Hindi as" Woh Saat Din" in 1983, starring Anil Kapoor, Padmini Kolhapure and Naseeruddin Shah.
Thulasi (1987 film)
Thulasi is a 1987 Tamil romantic drama film directed by Ameerjan.
The film features Murali and Seetha in lead roles.
The film, produced by P. S. V. Hariharan, had musical score by Sampath Selvam and was released on 27 November 1987.
The music director died before the release of the film.
Jules White
Jules White( born Julius Weiss; 17 September 190030 April 1985) was a Hungarian- born American film director and producer best known for his short- subject comedies starring The Three Stooges.
The Flying Saucer
The Flying Saucer is a 1950 independently made American black- and- white science fiction spy film drama, written by Howard Irving Young, from an original story by Mikel Conrad who also produced, directed, and stars with Pat Garrison and Hantz von Teuffen.
The film was distributed in the United States by Film Classics Inc.
" The Flying Saucer" was re-released in 1953 in the U.S. by Realart Pictures Inc., as a double- feature with" Atomic Monster", the retitled- reissue of" Man Made Monster", originally released in 1941 by Universal Pictures.
" The Flying Saucer" is the first feature film to deal with the( then) new and hot topic of flying saucers.
Flying saucers, or alien craft shaped like flying disks or saucers, were first identified and given the popular name on June 24, 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine silvery, crescent- shaped objects flying in tight formation.
A newspaper reporter coined the snappy tagline," flying saucers", which captured the public's imagination.
The film has no relationship and should not be confused with the later Ray Harryhausen science fiction film" Earth vs. the Flying Saucers", released by Columbia Pictures.
Woh Saat Din
Woh Saat Din is a 1983 Hindi film directed by Bapu.
Produced by Surinder Kapoor and Boney Kapoor, it stars his son Anil Kapoor along with Padmini Kolhapure and Naseeruddin Shah.
It was Anil Kapoor's first lead role.
The film is a remake of the 1981 Tamil film" Andha 7 Naatkal", which was directed by K. Bhagyaraj.
Director Bapu remade the film in Telugu first and then in Hindi.
The music was done by Laxmikant Pyarelal while Anand Bakshi wrote the lyrics.
Flying Saucer Daffy
Flying Saucer Daffy is a 1958 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges( Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe Besser).
It is the 187th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
Querelle
Querelle is a 1982 West German- French English- language drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brad Davis, adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel" Querelle of Brest".
It marked Fassbinder's final film as a writer/ director; it was posthumously released just months after the director died of a drug overdose in June 1982.
Antha Ezhu Naatkal
Antha Ezhu Naatkal is a 1981 Tamil language film.
Directed by and starring K. Bhagyaraj, the film follows the life and ambitions of the hero, Palakkad Madhavan played by K. Bhagyaraj and his sidekick Gopi( child actor Khaja Sharif).
The movie was a great hit and very well received by the public.
It was remade in Telugu as" Radha Kalyanam", in Hindi as" Woh Saat Din", and in Kannada as" Love Maadi Nodu".
Le Masque de la Méduse
Le masque de la Méduse is a 2009 fantasy horror film directed by Jean Rollin.
The film is a modern-day telling of the Greek mythological tale of the Gorgon and was inspired by the 1964 classic Hammer Horror film of the same name and the 1981 cult classic" Clash of the Titans".
It was Rollin's final film, as the director died in 2010.

Question: Which film has the director died earlier, Flying Saucer Daffy or Woh Saat Din?
Answer: Flying Saucer Daffy