He directed more than 80 films in South Indian languages including Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada as well as in Hindi.
He gave superhits like Rajkumar (1964) and Sachaai (1969) with Shammi kapoor and Sadhana in lead roles.
MGR chose Shankar to direct his own production, "Adimai Penn".
[3] Shankar died due to heart attack at his residence on 5 March 2006[1] at the age of 79.
He has daughters Vijayalakshmi, Rukmani and Radha and sons Sivaprasad, Saseetharan and Ganesan.