Chittanahalli Venkatakrishna Shivashankar Shastry (23 March 1933 – 27 June 2023), also known as Chittanahalli Venkatakrishna Bhatta, was an Indian film director and producer, screenwriter, lyricist and dialogue writer who predominantly worked in the Kannada film industry.
[citation needed] C. V. Shivashankar began his career as an actor and assistant director from the Kannada movie Rathna Manjari [citation needed] starring Udaykumar, M. P. Shankar, Narasimharaju, Leelavathi and others.
Later he acted in few Kannada movies, and he become full-fledged director from the movie Padavidhara starring Udaykumar, Kalpana, T. N. Balakrishna and Narasimharaju in the lead roles.
Shivashankar died from a heart attack on 27 June 2023, at the age of 90.
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