Question: Which film has the director who was born first, The Black Whip or Sindhu Bhairavi (Film)?

Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford. <SEP> The film brief describes the film as "two brothers rescue four dance-hall girls, and encounter trouble from a villain wielding a wicked whip". The Black Whip is a post-American Civil War Western film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Hugh Marlowe and Coleen Gray. The film depicts the time as April 1867, when post-war derelicts, plunderers, and looters continue their crazed violence out west. The story and screenplay were written by Orville Hampton. <SEP> Charles Marquis Warren( December 16, 1912 — August 11, 1990) was an American motion picture and television writer, producer, and director who specialized in Westerns. Among his notable career achievements were his involvement in creating the television series" Rawhide" and his work in adapting the radio series" Gunsmoke" for television. <SEP> Zorro's Black Whip is a 1944 Republic Pictures film serial starring Linda Stirling. The film was made after the 1940 20th Century-Fox remake of "The Mark of Zorro" and Republic wasn't able to use the character himself, but still wanted to capitalize on it. However, and despite the title, Zorro does not feature in this serial. The hero(ine) is actually called The Black Whip throughout. The serial is set in pre-statehood Idaho, and involves a fight to prevent and ensure statehood by the villains and heroes respectively. Parts of the serial were reused as stock footage to pad out later serials such as "Don Daredevil Rides Again" (1951) and "Man with the Steel Whip" (1954) – despite the fact that both of those serials had male leads. <SEP> He was well known for his distinct film- making style, and the Indian film industry knew him as a master of unconventional themes and hard- hitting contemporary subject matter. Balachander's films are well known for their portrayal of women as bold personalities and central characters. Kailasam Balachander( 9 July 1930 – 23 December 2014) was an Indian filmmaker and playwright who worked mainly in the Tamil film industry. Popularly referred to as" Iyakkunar Sigaram"( lit." the director who scaled the peak"), his films are usually centred on unusual or complicated interpersonal relationships and social themes. He started his film career in 1964 as a screenwriter and graduated to a director with" Neerkumizhi"( 1965). In a career that spanned 50 years, he had contributed to nearly 100 feature films either as a screenwriter or director, thus becoming one of the most prolific filmmakers in the country. Known among his colleagues as a tough task master, he was credited with having nurtured numerous actors, notably Nagesh, Sujatha, Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi, Jayaprada, Sridevi, Jayasudha, Saritha, Renuka, Nassar, Prakash Raj, Ramesh Aravind and Vivek. In his film career, Balachander had won nine National Film Awards and 13 Filmfare Awards. He was honored with the Padma Shri( 1987), India's fourth highest civilian award, and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema. He also made films under his production house, Kavithalaya Productions. Apart from Tamil, he made films in other languages such as Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. Towards the tail end of his career, he directed a few TV serials and made a few film appearances as well. <SEP> The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The songs in the film were sung by K. J. Yesudas and K. S. Chithra. The film was a blockbuster and won three National Awards for Best Actress, Best Music Direction and Best Female Playback Singer. The plot of the film revolves around the three lead characters: a Carnatic singer J. K. Balaganapathi( JKB), his wife Bhairavi, and his girlfriend Sindhamani aka Sindhu. At the peak of his career, JKB gets addicted to alcohol following complications with his affair, and his career goes into a downward spiral. Bhairavi tries to detox him and fails. As a last resort she requests Sindhu's help and succeeds. The status of relationship between the three after his makeover is the resolution of the film. This film has a sequel in the format of a television series named" Sahana" produced by K. Balachander. Sindhu Bhairavi is a 1985 Indian Tamil- language musical drama film directed and produced by K. Balachander starring Sivakumar, Suhasini, Sulakshana, Delhi Ganesh and Janagaraj. The film ended with Sindhu leaving her son with JKB and Bhairavi. " Sahana" starts 19 years later. Sindhu's son Surya is now 19 years old. Bhairavi has given birth to a daughter, but they have no clue where Sindhu is.