Kannada Movie Review Chambal - Cast & Crew

Girija Lokesh is an India based actress and also keeps interest in filmography. She was worked in many of the Kannada movies and has also been into theatrics for some time. She has also appeared in some of the popular TV serials too, namely, Chota Champion, as a participant in the year 2014. This show was telecasted on Zee Kannada. She also featured in Majora Talkies as a guest on the show in the year 2015. This show was televised on Colours Kannada. Girija Lokesh was married to Lokesh, who was an actor too. Former actress Pooja Lokesh and Srujan Lokesh, who is an actor and a television presenter, are here two children. She has given many hits to the Kannada cinema, in appreciation to which, she has been honored with the laurel, the Rajyotsava Award by the Karnataka Government, in the year 2013.

Sonu Gowda is a film actress from India. Her other name is Shruthi Ramakrishna.

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Jacob Verghese is an Indian film director/producer who has worked primarily in the Kannada film industry. Jacob has been involved in popular films such as Prithvi IAS and Chambal. Jacob's previous movie, which was a hit in the theatre, was Prithvi IAS in 2021. Jacob is a national award-winning director of the films Savaari and Prithvi IAS, and has also directed several international documentaries. Since Savaari 2, the 2018 release includes Chambal. He was born in Trivandrum, Kerala, but grew up in Madras, Tamil Nadu. (Madras was renamed from Chennai in 1996 to its original form). Madras Patnam is the name given to the city by the East India Company in 1639. He moved to Union Christian Metrication (UCM) High School from 5th grade to high school.

Dinesh Rajkumar is a Kannada journalist. He completed his education at Seventh Day Adventist Higher Secondary School, and he graduated with diploma in Electronics and then later completed diploma in Filmmaking and television technology. He has worked as producer for a wide range of films, including India’s Oscar nominated short film Andhyum(2005) and Putti (2009). He has been working in the industry for more than 25 years. He initially worked as the head of video and virtual production at Keystone and then later at Alush Production as an international film producer and director. He works as a virtual production specialist and cinematographer/Filmmaker at DRAK plus CenterGrid Virtual Studio USA and he works in Bangalore.

Mathew Varghese is a South Indian Film producer and actor. He has done a lot of work in the Kannada film industry. With his confident acting and charismatic personality, he is hard to miss on the big screen. Mathew has produced many films, a few popular ones including, ‘MAFIA CHAPTER 1’, ‘ISPADE RAJAVUM ITHAYA RANIYUM’, ‘CHAMBAL’ and ‘MASTER’ (yet to release) and many more such movies.

Judah Sandhy is a young music composer, a music director, and a producer. He works predominantly in the Kannada film industry. He took birth in Bangalore, Karnataka on the 21st of January 1989. Judah has achieved a lot of fame in his few years of the music career; he is a young and talented musician who wants to deliver melody music.

Poornachandra Tejaswi was an Indian writer and novelist, popular amongst the readers and viewers for his work in movies like Abachoorina Post Office, Kubi Mattu Iyala, Kiragoorina Gayyaligalu, Tabaran Kathe and his other literary works. Mostly known for his pre-dominant involvement in the Kannada literature, writing novels, short stories dramas, and pieces of criticism, he made a significant impression in the Navya period and inaugurated the Bandaya movement. Born on 8th September 1938 in Kupalli, Shivamogga, Karnataka, Tejaswi was the son of Rashtrakavi Kuvempu.

G P Rajarathnam was a Kannada author, lyricist, and poet in Karnataka, India. His ancestors belonged to Tirukkanapur Agrahara of Naga city in Tamil Nadu. Later on, they shifted to Mysore, Karnataka, in 1906, and G P Rajarathnam was born in Gundlupet, a town in chamrajnagar district, Karnataka. He loved children and composed many prominent poems about them. One of the greatest poets, K. S. Nissar Ahmed, mentioned that Rajarathnam understood the minds of children and mentioned their needs.

Abhinandan Mahishale is a young talented playback singer of the Kannada film industry. He has recorded songs for various labels such as Lahari Music and Divo TV Private Limited. He has sung songs in movies like Chamak, Operation Alamelamma, and Onthara Bannagalu. The top songs of Abhinandan include “Kush Kush,” ”Nee Nanna Olavu,” ”Turning Point.”

Bavan Sreekumar is a South Indian film editor. He mainly works in the Tamil and Malayalam film industries. His first movie as an editor was the Malayalam romantic film ‘Nidra’ in 2012. Initially, in the late 2000s, he started as an associate editor. He’s worked on films like Billa (2007), 13B: Fear Has a New Address (2009), YaavarumNalam (2009), Kerala VarmaPazhassi Raja (2009), AngadiTheru (2010), Savari 2 (2014), VarnyathilAashanka (2015), and so on.

Super Subbarayan is an Indian actor and an action choreographer/ stunt master in the Tamil film industry. He was born P. Subbarayan in Tamil Nadu. He started his career as an extra fighter in the year 1980 with I.V. Sasi’s bilingual film, Kaali; followed by the 1983 Tamil film, Thoongathey Thambi Thoongathey. Super has been in the industry for more than two decades and has worked with several leading actors in Kollywood. Initially, he wanted to become a teacher, but it did not happen. His passion for martial arts led him to enter the tinsel town.

Born with the name of Shivakumar on June 20 in Yeladahalli, Karnataka, Sathish Ninasam is an Indian actor working in Kannada films. He was born into a family of farmers. He was so passionate about cinema that he used to run away to the Theater. He started his career as a theatre actor in Ninasam, a cultural organization based in Heggodu in the Shimoga district of Karnataka, where before acting, he completed a two-year diploma course in acting. He learnt how to lead a meaningful life from others big names. After that, he performed plays in Bangalore. There, he became one with the Samashti Theatre Group that performed plays.

Achyuth Kumar was born in Bangalore. He has acted in both Kannada and Tamil movies. He was trained in "Ninasam", a cultural organization committed to the development of drama, films and publishing, in the Shimoga district of Karnataka. He made his debut in the Kannada film 'Josh' in 2009. He is widely known for his spectacular performances in the Kannada films, Lucia and Sidlingu. However, he gained widespread critical acclaim and fame for his character as movie theatre owner Shankaranna in the super hit film Lucia, which made him an overnight star and bagged him prestigious Filmfare award for Best Supporting Actor. He is one of the tremendous performers in the emotional roles and character-based roles. He shot to fame and people started to notice his acting abilities from the super hit movie ‘Aa Dinagalu’ released in the year 2007, as underworld don Oil Kumar.

 Pawan Kumar is a Kannada film and TV director, actor and screen writer. He was born on 29th October 1982 in bengalaru. He began his career with the movie ‘Lifeu’ and later worked in ‘Isntene’ for which he wrote the script and contributed in terms of acting and direction also. Followed by this, another release, ‘lucia’, in the year 2013 made him the favourite of many.

In the initial days of his career during 1998, Pawan worked in the theatre. He attended various workshops to polish his skills and ultimately became very confident and courageous to take bold steps in his career. He was the associate director with Yograj bhat.

Kumar also made many short films. He was a finalist in Indian young achiever 2006. In the industry, he is known as that candle which illuminates the path of the young talent entering this glamour world. He holds film workshop to support young film makers. You can contact him through social sites and he avails you with all his experience, talking of how to make career in the film industry.

As an actor he has worked in block buster movies like ‘Mr. Garagasa, circus, manasaare’ etc and has written the scripts of the movies like ‘Manasaare and panchrangi’.

He was applauded for his commendable work with awards like Best actor tespo 2002, best creative direction for times play fest, audience award at 4th London Indian film festival for the movie ‘lucia’, and film fare best director kannada for the same. His upcoming project is c10H14N2.

The actor closely links theatre and films, considering both as the equally important art forms.

In 2004 he founded an English theatre company and has produced more than 70 public shows in his theatre production.

With a mere of 4 member crew Roger Narayan, a Hollywood actor who works in Bollywood got into stardom by his English feature film HOLA VENKY!, which gathered a six-week success in the US. It will soon be screened in other regional South Indian movie. Roger even represented India as a cultural ambassador trend in China emerging as the Star top finalist film actor. Roger featured film include ‘The man who knew infinity’, ‘Clay,’ ‘Happy Feet 2,’ ‘Hola Venky !’. Roger has also voiced in ‘Eat, Pray and Love’, ‘MI 4’ and ‘Ghost Protocol’.

Born on January-24-1955 in Gokarna, Mysore, Jayant Kaikini is an eminent Kannada poet and songwriter. He has also penned down several short stories. His father, Gourish Kaikiki, was a teacher, and his mother, Shanta, a philanthropist. Jayant had a Masters degree in biochemistry and completed his post-graduation from Karnataka University in Dharwad in Karnataka. He then migrated to Mumbai and started working as a chemist in Procter and Gamble. Jayant speaks other languages also including Konkani, Marathi, English and Hindi.

Kishore was born in the year 1974 in Karnataka. Basically, he was a theater artist. When he was doing his graduation in National College, he started to act in various theater plays. He is a Masters Degree holder in Kannada Literature. After his graduation, he started to work as a teacher. Then, he worked as a fashion designer. Kannada movie ‘Kanti’ was his debut movie, which gave him a good career. It got released in 2004. He got the State Award for the Best Supporting role for the movie ‘Raakshasha’. His role in the movie Akash was widely appreciated by the critics. He acted as the brother for four sisters, who brought them up strictly. This movie has the resemblance of the Malayalam movie Hitler. 

Tamil director Vetri Maran was searching for a talented Kannada actor, who could speak Tamil well. Kishore caught in his eyes, but the movie was dropped. But, he got a chance in the movie Polladhavan with Dhanush. The movie was a super hit, which gave a good recognition to Kishore. Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu, Jayamkondaan and Haridas are the super hit movies in which Kishore was praised. Haridas with Sneha is the most appreciated role and Kishore did a lead character. Kishore became the popular and best performer, as a good actor and he got many opportunities and he selected good movies, which had good acting scope. His performance in Arrambam and Thilagar were appreciated well. He has not only performed in lots of Kannada and Tamil movies, but also in Telugu movies. Kishore has proved that art has no language.

His current projects are Yatchan, Thoongavanam and Kadhali Kanavillai in Tamil, Ricky, Octopus in Kannada and Cheekati Rajyam in Telugu. Vascodigama in Kannada, a comedy movie is the latest hit movie of Kishore. He has done as the film lead with Parvathy Nair. 

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Kishore Jayaram is actually known as the “good villain” of Tamil cinema, has done some memorable roles in films such as ‘Aadukalam’, ‘Pollathavan’, ‘Porkalam’, ‘Shaithan’ and ‘Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu’. In these films he was given the film centering roles. In the last decade or so, this actor has excelled in bringing us a variety of antihero roles that the industry liked him to cast in major good characters only. This gentle and soft-minded person is actually a lecture-turned-actor who is known for doing “good” villain role in the Tamil film industry. He is also a costume designer for films. Currently, Kishore has now been considered to play an important role in the upcoming Tamil movie ‘Kabali’. A few months earlier, this actor was seen busy shooting for the Kamal Haasan starrer ‘Thoongavanam’. 

After Kamal’s film shooting has been almost over, the actor has now been roped in for a key role in Rajinikanth’s next (Kabali). While making a biopic on Veerappan, his looks had so much justified him in playing the character that it turned out to be a stellar performance from the actor. Veerappan was made a bilingual film (Attahasa in Kannada and Vana Yudhdham in Tamil). Kishore was noticed in the Tamil film industry when he got to play the villain Selvam’s role in the Dhanush-starrer Polladhavan. Later on, Aadukalam too brought him much attention. In the same year, his performance in Haridas, where he played a cop and father of an autistic child was critically acclaimed a lot. Actor Kishore also made a space for himself in Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam film industry. This actor always had wanted to face the camera and become actor. He left his teaching profession and joined the film industry out of passion for acting. Although he had made his debut in Kannada film, his experiments in Kannada film industry had given him the critical acclaim. But it is only in Tamil film industry where he got his major success..

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Kishore (also known as Kishore Kumar G ) is an actor born in Karnataka. He has basically evolved from the theater. Today, he is known as ‘Veerappan’, for portraying the role of a bandit in 'Vana Yuddham' (Tamil), and 'Attahasa' (Kannada), which was directed by A. M. R. Ramesh. It was a technically brilliant biopic of dacoit, Veerappan, and the critics praised the performance of Kishore as Veerappan in the film. The actor always wanted to become an actor, but missed many chances. Before making his debut in acting, he was a professor in Sharada College in Bengaluru, but opted to quit the job. His first break came in the year 2004 in ‘Kanti’, when he was a part-time fashion designer. He bagged the role of 'Byaadara Beera' in the movie 'Kanti', when he was supposed to design the costumes for the film. But as the lady luck had smiled upon him, the actor got his first acknowledgment as an actor by winning the State Award for his performance in the film. In the year 2004, he again won the State Award for his performance in the movie, 'Rakshasa'.

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