Girija Lokesh
Sonu
Shreya Iyer
Jacob Verghese
Dinesh Rajkumar
Mathew Varghese
Judah Sandhy
Poornachandra Tejaswi
G P Rajarathnam
Abhinandan Mahishale
Bavan Sreekumar
Super Subbarayan
Sathish Ninasam
Achyuth Kumar
Pawan Kumar
Roger Narayan
Jayant Kaikini
Kishore Jayaram
Sardar Sathya
1. Girija Lokesh
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.
2. Sonu
Sonu Gowda is a film actress from India. Her other name is Shruthi Ramakrishna.
Sonu Gowda was born on the 23rd of the month of March 1990. The capital city of Bangalore of Karnataka is her birthplace. Her father’s name was Ramakrishnan. He used to work in the make-up division of the entertainment industry. He started to do this job in the movies which got made in the Kannada language. Kannada is the most spoken language of Karnataka. Sonu Gowda or Shruthi Ramakrishna’s real sister is also in the acting industry. Her name is Neha Gowda, and she works in Television serials as an actress. Lakshmi Baramma and Swathi Chinukulu were some Television soaps of which she was an intrinsic part.
She received her education from a school in Bangalore named Carmel High School, which was present in an area...
4. Jacob Verghese
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.
It is a very disciplined school and its principal, the doctor. P. Varghese. Punc...
5. Dinesh Rajkumar
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.
...6. Mathew Varghese
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.
Mathew has also done an impressive job in movies as a supporting actor. Some of his most popular roles may include: ‘ACHAM YENBATHU MADAMAIYADA’ (2016) as Simbu’s father, ‘ADANGA MARU’ (2018), and ‘MEYADHA MAAN’ (2017) as Madhu’s father, Subramani.
...7. Judah Sandhy
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.
He came in the limelight in 2017 through his music in the Kannada movie, Operation Alamelamma. He took birth in Bangalore in the South-Indian state of Karnataka. Judah kept a keen interest in music from the childhood.
He went to the St. Aloysius College in Bangalore for graduation. At college, he co-founded a musical band under the name, ‘Slain,’ and became popular among his batch mates. Later after graduation, Judah wanted to take music as his long-term career.
So, he d...
8. Poornachandra Tejaswi
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.
He completed his graduation from the Maharaj College of Mysore, which was one of the top colleges in India. Tejaswi was married to Rajshwari and the couple gave birth to two daughters, named Eshanye and Susmitha, who are both software professionals. At...
9. G P Rajarathnam
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.
Some of his famous works on children are- Nayi Mari Nayi Mari (Meaning: Puppy dog, puppy dog), Bannadha Thagadina Thuthoori (Meaning: Colorful metalfoil trumpet), and Ondhu-Yeardu (Meaning: One-Two). Rajarathnam has written 230 works in 338 publications, including books such as Rathnana Padagalu (Meaning: Ratna's words), Nagana Padagalu (Me...
10. Abhinandan Mahishale
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.”
Abhinandan performed in the college fest of Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering and got a cheer from the audience. The song Alaga-Alaga from Operation Alamelamma is one of Abhinandan’s personal favorite. He even started exploring other languages such as Hindi and recently posted his cover of the song “Dekhun hazaro dafa” on his Instagram.
...11. Bavan Sreekumar
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.
He lives in Chennai, India. He speaks Malayalam. He’s also worked in TV commercials like Bhima Boutique, Isteel Forever, and Tanishq. He worked on a Kannada movie named Chambal in 2019. Telugu movies edited by him are AahaKalyanam (2014) and Ghatana (2016).
...12. Super Subbarayan
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.
Now, he has worked in over 100 films in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, and Kannada. Some of the films he worked on include Manaivi Solle Manthiram, January 1, 24 Mani Neram, Chain Jayapal, Vikram, Vasantha Raagam, Poonthotta Kaavalkaaran, Urimai Geetham, Thaai Naadu, Anjali, Avasara P...
13. Sathish Ninasam
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.
Moving towards the acting area, he appeared in Kannada TV soaps such as Paramapada, Takadimitha. In 2008, he was offered a cameo in Madesha. Films like Manasaare, Pancharangi, LifuIshtene and Drama offered hi...
14. Achyuth Kumar
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 &l...
15. Pawan 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 illumina...
16. Roger Narayan
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’.
Roger completed his shooting for HBO channel’s show ‘The Leftovers’ recently and then he appeared as Top of Show Guest Star for the show NCI...
17. Jayant Kaikini
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.
He left no trace of having been a precocious writer and issued his first poetry book, Rangadindostu Doora when he was eighteen. In 1974, he received his first Sahitya Akademi award when he was just nineteen years old. Jayant then went ahead to write several poetry books including Kotithirtha,...
18. Kishore Jayaram
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 movi...