His passion for acting, love for arts, and artistic skills were exemplary. He was not only an artist who painted for the backdrop of theatre or painted bill boards but non knew of his artistic skills in free hand drawings which were so instinctive that he had even sketched for the blue print of his studio building and for his site located on Kengeri-Mysore highway road. The Engineer who had to approve it was dumbstruck for his unbelievable talents.
Though being a Class VIII twice failed and a drop out his knowledge in Kannada Language was so profound that he was a genius who didn’t require the confines of school to acquire knowledge, he went on to be a playwright too. His command over the language was so laudable, that he even turned to be a "teacher" or "guru" to the most adored matinee idol of Kannada Cinema Dr.(Mr.) Rajkumar.
In 1940, he and his childhood dear friend Mr.G.V.Iyer had camped at "Sri Gubbi Veeranna" theatre company. It was during that period he got acquainted to Dr.Rajkumar whose father Mr.Puttaswamaiah along with his four children had also encamped there. Mr.Puttaswamaiah was too keen that his children acquire adequate knowledge in Kannada language. Hitherto Balu who's knowledge in Kannada had developed to be proficient, shared them with Dr.Rajkumar who gradually got inspired by Balu's teaching capability, and therefore respected him as his mentor with immense admiration as his ideal "Guru" or "teacher".
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