Question: Which film has the director who was born earlier, Anand (1986 Film) or The Happiest Days Of Your Life?

It stars Shivrajkumar and Sudha Rani in lead roles with both making their debuts. The film went on to be a huge success running for 38 weeks. Shivarajkumar is introduced as an actor and a dancer in this film. Anand is a 1986 Indian Kannada film directed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao. This was his first of the three consecutive hits at the box-office on debut which gave him the title" Hat- trick Hero". He once said," I can never forget" Anand", my first film which made me an actor. Singeetam was just explaining the scene to us and was telling this is what the work I expect from you people. He was bringing out such better performance from all of us." <SEP> Bernadette O' Farrell( 30 January 1924 – 26 September 1999) was an Irish actress. She was born in Birr, County Offaly, Irish Free State. She was married to the film writer, director and producer Frank Launder from 1950 until his death in 1997. They had two daughters together. She is best known for playing Maid Marian in the 1950s TV version of" The Adventures of Robin Hood". She left the show in 1957, after 78 episodes, to avoid type- casting, and was replaced by Patricia Driscoll. She played an English mistress, Miss Harper, in" The Happiest Days of Your Life"( 1949), Jessie Bond in" The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan"( 1953) and Peg Curtis in the boxing film" The Square Ring"( 1953). She retired from acting in 1959 to live on a farm in Buckinghamshire, England. Later, O' Farrell and Launder moved to Monaco. Her last film appearance was in" The Wildcats of St. Trinian's"( 1980). <SEP> The octogenarian is widely regarded as one of the versatile directors of India. He is credited with having revolutionised the South Indian cinema with experimental films. He has garnered two National Film Awards, seven state Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awards South, and three Karnataka State Film Awards. In 2010, Rao headed the Jury of the Indian Panorama at the 8th Chennai International Film Festival. In 2011, Rao received the Life Achievement Award from the Film Federation of India at the 4th "Global Film Festival". Rao was also the Guest of honor alongside Barrie Osbourne at the "Media and Entertainment Business Conclave 2012" hosted by FICCI and FFI. In 2012, Rao served as one of the selection committee members for the Sundance Institute's screenwriters lab. The 2003 animation film, "Son of Aladdin" had 1100 shots and 125 characters. The film won "Special Mention in the Competition section" at the 2003 "International Children’s Film Festival Hyderabad", and was subsequently premiered at the 37th International Film Festival of India. The 2008 animation film Ghatothkach, was premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival in the Critics' Week section, and was also premiered to special mention at the "Grand Finale - Children's Film Festival 2014" of the 44th International Film Festival of India. Rao served as the executive director for the 1970 Kannada film, Samskara which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film, and Bronze Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. He made his Telugu directorial debut with "Neethi Nijayithi" (1972). He then directed social problem films like "Dikkatra Parvathi" (1974), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil, Filmfare Award for Best Film – Tamil for that year, and "Tharam Marindhi", which won Nandi Award for Best Feature Film, both of which were premiered at International Film Festival of India and the Moscow Film Festival. Singeetam Srinivasa Rao (born 21 September 1931) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, composer, singer, lyricist and actor, known for his works in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi films, across multiple genres. The 1988 silent film, "Pushpaka Vimana" gained international acclaim, including 1988 Cannes Film Festival premiere in the International Critics' Week. The film has received the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment, and Filmfare Award South for Best Film. <SEP> Hassan Zee is a Pakistani- American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan. <SEP> Frank Launder( 28 January 1906 – 23 February 1997) was a British writer, film director and producer, who made more than 40 films, many of them in collaboration with Sidney Gilliat. He was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England and worked briefly as a clerk before becoming an actor and then a playwright. He began working as a screenwriter on British films in the 1930s, contributing the original story for the classic Will Hay comedy " Oh, Mr Porter!"( 1937). After writing a number of screenplays with Gilliat, including" The Lady Vanishes"( 1938) for Alfred Hitchcock, and" Night Train to Munich" for Carol Reed; the two men wrote and directed the wartime drama" Millions Like Us"( 1943). After founding their own production company Individual Pictures, they produced a number of memorable dramas and thrillers including" I See a Dark Stranger"( 1945) and" Green for Danger"( 1946), but were best known for their comedies including" The Happiest Days of Your Life"( 1950) and most famously, the St Trinians series, based on Ronald Searle's cartoons set in an anarchic girls school. He was married to actress Bernadette O' Farrell from 1950 until his death in Monaco. The couple had two children. <SEP> The two men also wrote the screenplay. It is one of a stable of classic British film comedies produced by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat for British Lion Film Corporation. The film was made on location in Liss and at Riverside Studios, London. In several respects, including some common casting, it was a precursor of the more anarchic" St. Trinian's" films of the 1950s. The Happiest Days of Your Life is a 1950 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder, based on the play by John Dighton.