The first Biography on him titled 'K.Karunakaran' was written by Vrindavanam Venugopalan.
Instead, he became Cinema assistant director to other eminent directors such as Kathir, Shankar and started loving cinema as his career.
A new bloc, with a cellar for recreational activities (Sanketam), was declared open by Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Ajit Kumar Panja on January 9 1989, in the presence of Kerala Revenue Minister PS Sreenivasan and Leader of the Opposition K. Karunakaran.