Biradar, a documentary filmmaker who also teaches Indian Cinema and Modern Indian Theatre at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, says, “I was drawn to KGF after ... the saddest scenes was the ...

Gayatri Chandrashekar The pioneering gold mining town in India, Kolar Gold Fields (KGF), has a fascinating history. Over two decades bridging the 19th and 20th centuries, a remote corner of the ...

The scenes in front of the mine close to our ... had signed with the British consortium that had just started mining operations in KGF. The note dated 1893 said: ‘“The mining industry is ...

Gita Aravamudan, a former KGF accountant’s daughter, says that by the time the mines were nationalised in 1956, all the high-quality gold had gone. In 1901, about two decades after mining ...

For weeks, there have been speculations that work on KGF: Chapter 3 has apparently begun. The star Yash added fuel to fire when he said in an interaction that he had discussed some scenes from the ...

KGF: Chapter 1' tells the gripping tale of Rocky, a young man who rises from the streets of Mumbai, to become the most feared and powerful figure in the gold mining town of Kolar. The film's plot ...

It grew fivefold in ten years and became 37,964. In the 1920s, when the mining industry was at its peak, KGF occupied an area of 30 square miles and had a population of 90,000. Of these ...

After the release of the trailer and teasers of KGF, cinematographer Bhuvan Gowda ... with fire to shoot some fight sequences and a scene was just shot with only a light from a match stick.