Kannada Movie Review Gara - Cast & Crew

Avanthika Mohan is an Indian Malayalam actress and model born on 8 June 1990 in Dubai. She currently resides in India. Mohan has won Miss Malabar 2011 title and also subtitle Miss Perfect 2010. She has a degree in Bachelor of Commerce. Her passion was to become a dancer, and she had taken training for the same. But soon after winning a beauty pageant she started getting acting offers and decided to join the film industry instead. Initially, she had many projects in hand but preferred to take up those in her mother tongue itself.

Manjula Gururaj is a veteran Indian background singer and a voice-over artist. She predominantly works for the south Indian film Industry in Kannada feature films. She came into the limelight in the decade from 1980 to 1990.

Born with an inborn talent, Saroj Khan is one of the most well-known and eminent choreography in the Indian film Industry. She has produced many pieces of good work for around 2000 films. Talking about her earlier days, she along with her family migrated to India right after the partition. Her family was one among the orthodox one, but she turned out to be a freak. She started her career at a very tender age of 3 with the film Nazrana and also a background dancer. B. Sohanlal was her mentor and trained her very well.

Kannada TV star and film actress is the face of popular movies like Vardhan, Samyuktha 2, and Sithara (2017). She also acted in Kannada films including Beka, Thippajji circle, Slum, and Huliya Durga. 28 years old Neha was born and brought up in Bangalore, Karnataka. Also, she completed studies in Bangalore city. She got the actual popularity with Tv serial Janumada Jodi.

A pleased on screen mother, she has received phenomenal appreciation for her roles as a soft mom. She is a familiar face not only on the small screen, but also on the big screen. Added to this is the ease of having more than fifteen years of experience in acting, which definitely propels this actress to take up roles and accomplish the same efficiently.

She has acted in a lot of movies and some of the movies which were a blockbuster. The notable names include, Mungaru Male, in the year 2006, directed by Yogaraj Bhat. This movie ran in the theatres for five hundred days. Pamaja plays the role of Bablee, who is Pooja Gandi (Nandini’s) mother. The year 2008 saw her in Gaali Pata, directed by Yogaraj Bhat. In this movie, she plays the character of Padma, who is Sowmya’s (Daisy Bopanna) mother – in – law. This was yet another super hit movie in the box – office. Ugramma is another movie where she plays yet another supporting role in this thriller action film. 

Her popular small screen serial was Moodala Mane, directed by Vaishali Kasaravalli. It was aired on ETV Kannada. Preethi Illada Mele was another teleserial of hers. 

Having had huge success in acting, she has now moved yet another notch in her life. Padmaja takes a plunge into direction. Yes, this lovely on screen mother will be seen as a director. On the telly serial front, she has directed Benkiyalli Aralidha Hoo aired on Zee Kannada. She has roped in Pooja Gandhi, Yash, Dodanna and others. On the big screen, her venture as debut director is with the movie Thumba Ishta Swalpa Kashta (TISK), with a 1.6 crores budget. The star cast in this movie is Diganth, Andrita Ray and Yash.

Roopa Devi is a South Indian on-screen character born on November 7, 1960, who has acted in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam movies. She is the daughter of veteran on-screen character Advani Lakshmi Devi. She got known as the debutante actress of the lamentable sentimental motion picture“Oru Thalai Ragam” in Tamil that ran for 365 days, in which she has worked with novice Shankar. She primarily acted in Kannada motion pictures during the 1980s.

Sonu Patil is an Indian On-screen Artist who overwhelmingly shows up in Kannada dialect motion pictures. She was born on 27th September in Bijapurand got later moved to North Karnataka, an inside Village, and as of now dwells there. She finished her school education in Bangalore, Karnataka, and pursued her degree in Akkaakkamahadevi Women's University, Vijayapur, Karnataka, India. She was additionally a columnist who completed her MA Journalism at Vijayapur. Furthermore, she functioned in a broadcasting channel.

Sagar Gururaj is a singer, pianist, stage performer, and a successful music director in the Kannada Film Industry. He is a son of legendary playback singer Manjula Gururaj, who is famous for recording more than 20,000 songs. He has directed music for successful movies such as “No Entry,” “Lollipop,” and “Sanya Satya.” His latest musical hit is “Gara.” The “Guru Gum Gara Gum” on Youtube is a cover song released by him and his band.

Vasuki Vaibhav was born on December 7, 1991, to a Kannada speaking family in Mysore, Karnataka. He is the son of Jayaram, who is a famous drama artist. Vasuki did his schooling at The East-West School and Jana Seva Vidya Kendra in Bangalore. Vasuki completed his BCom degree at Surana College of Arts Science in Bangalore. Shortly after that, he obtained a degree in Mass communication at the Dayananda Sagar Institutions in Bangalore. At a very early age, Vasuki Vaibhav decided to pursue his career in the field of singing.

Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and composer. He was born on July 30, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana. Hailing from a musical background, both his parents are singers. He is the son of singer Agam Kumar Nigam. The first performance he gave was at the tender age of 3 when he performed the song Kya Hua Tera Wada by Mohammed Rafi. Besides singing Hindi songs he has recorded songs in Kannada, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali and Marathi languages. He is amongst the top Playback singers in Bollywood and has also released a few individual pop albums. Nigam moved to Mumbai at the age of 19, to start a career in Bollywood as a singer. He is the prodigy of famous Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. Though he started his career by covering songs of Mohammed Rafi under the T-Series record label owned by Gulshan Kumar, his first break came in 1990 when he did playback singing in the movie called Janam. In 1995 he started hosting the popular musical TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, after which he delivered the famous single Acha Sila Diya Tune for the film Bewafa Sanam. Some of his famous tracks are Sandese Aate Hai from the movie Border (1997), Ye Dil Deewana from the movie Pardes (1997). In 1999 he released his debut album Deewana, he also sang the title track for the movie Kal Ho Na Ho. As an individual composer he has worked on movies like Singh Saab The Great, Sooper Se Ooper and Jal. Nigam has contributed in Britney Spears track I Wanna Go, and has also released a track in the album The Beat of Our Hearts as a tribute to Michael Jacskon. In his small acting career he has acted in films like Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahaani, Love In Nepal and Kaash Aap Humaare Hote. Nigam is married to Madhurima and also had a son named Neevan.

Aryan Sharma is a talented child actor, dancer and choreographer in Indian television, and is known for his role as Chotu in 'Diya Aur Baati Hum', which airs on Star Plus.

Johnny Lever is an Indian comedy actor who came to prominence with film actor Govinda’s films. As actors like Kader Khan and Shakti Kapoor had reached a zenith in their career, it was actor Sunil Dutt who had spotted this actor in a stage (show of Amitabh Bachchan and music composer Kalyanji Anandji) and advised him to take up comedy roles seriously. He is one of the comedians who appear truly funny to make us laugh. He is also known for his wits and smarts and appears to make intelligent jokes and poke fun in many films. After Govinda was overshadowed by the prominence of Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan in the film world, Johnny Lever could make audiences laugh by using his physical appearances even in many Khans movies. He dislikes present talk comedy shows on TV and feels comedy is something that does not come in everyday life and hence screen is the mainstream media to help the comedians grow. Lever was born in Hyderabad.

Sadhu Kokila is a Kannada actor who primarily works on comedy roles. He is also a director and music composer. Rakta Kanneeru, Om and Shhh are some of the movies that he directed and also acted. The Vijay starrer Devru was also directed by him.
Born on 24th March, 1966, Sadhu Kokila, also known as Kokila Sadhu, hails from a family of musically inclined people. His father was a violinist in a music group of Karnataka Police Department. His sister and mother are singers. Layendra, Kokila’s brother, is also an actor. Kokila pursued his schooling at St. Joseph’s Indian High School in Bangalore. Kannada star Upendra provided him with the name Sadhu Kokila. 
Kokila kickstarted his career in the film industry as a musician and eventually he was referred to Kasturi Shankar, another musician. He has the reputation of being one of the swiftest keyboard players in India. Kokila has helmed direction for 12 Kannada flicks, and 6 of them were remakes. His directorial venture Anarkali was dropped midway. 
Kokila expresses that audiences and the media question whether his films are a remake or original. He had made up his mind not to endeavor in remakes. He feels that composing music requires a lot of creativity. As far as his comedy stint is concerned, he is loved by the audience. And about acting he feels that it is exciting. Sadhu Kokila has received awards for music direction twice. 
As far as remakes are concerned Kokila is of the view that there are creative limitations. But originals are enjoyable both in the sense of creativity and visualization. Sadhu Kokila along with Doddanna make a good pair for situation comedies. Kokila is compared with Johnny Lever of Bollwyood,for his comedy skills. 
On his personal front, Kokila is wedded to Saleena. They are blessed with two sons. 

H.C. Venugopal is a cinematographer. He has worked for Sandalwood (Kannada) and Kollywood (Telegu) film industries. He also has some notable works in the Telugu industry. He has been active since 1996 and has predominantly worked in the Kannada film industry. Some of his unique creations in the Kannada language are A (1998), Sparsha (1999), H2O (2002), Aa Dinagalu (2007), Jaggu Dada (2016), Anthu Inthu Preethi Banthu (2008) to name a few. Venugopal was also involved in shooting the first 3D Kannada film Katari Veera Surasundarangi (2012). Venugopal has also made the bilingual films, Jaihind 2 (2014) and Prema Baraha (2018) in collaboration with Arjun Sarja, an actor, producer, and director who works in the Tamil film industry.

Ajay Warrier is an Indian singer who has flourished in his field with his praiseworthy talent. He is known to have trained under Vidwan Sri T V Gopalakrishnan and Vidwan Sri S. Shankar, who are remarkable singers in Indian music. Although he is a professional Carnatic singer and speaks Kannada, that hasn’t stopped him from singing in various other genres in languages like Malayalam, Tulu, Tamil, Arabic, Bengali, Sanskrit and so on. Being such a versatile singer, he has been awarded many accolades during the span of his career. He has also had the opportunity to record with famous Indian singers like S. Janaki, K.S. Chithra, and P. Susheela, to name a few. He sang for movies like Namma Kannada, Kalla Malla Sulla, Raag Prahar Darshan, and so on. He sings devotional songs as well as film songs and wishes his music inspires the public.

Vijay Prakash is an Indian playback singer and film composer. He was born in Mysore and moved to Mumbai in 1996. He worked in so many Hindi films including Blue, Yuvraaj, Swades, Kaal, Lakshya, Matrubhoomi, Tere Naam, Cheeni Kum, Raavan, and Force.

He was born in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. At the age of two, their family moved to Hyderabad, so he was grown up in Hyderabad.

He learnt Kathak (Indian classical dance) while he was studying 3rd class. Afterwards he learnt Bangra (dance originating from the Punjab region) extensively for eight years. He was even familiar with mime (imitation without use of speech) and gave many performances. He used to participate in lot of cultural activities mainly dance competitions.

He completed his engineering from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. Later on he went to USA and pursued Masters in Computers. He even joined in a job at Rediff. At the same time he joined a three month course in NYFA (New York Film Academy), which helped him a lot for his acting career. Meanwhile he also worked for a production house ‘Hollywood Bollywood’ as Model and for some while he worked as production assistant. He was married in 2006 and claims that movies are his passion.

He made his debut in 2005 through a film named ‘Vennela’, in which he played a role of Syed, a Muslim youth. His first project was a big hit and helped him getting many more chances. He moved to Hyderabad and started his acting career. He was offered one of the main roles in ‘Nuvve’ by Gopichand (Telugu film director). He got more opportunities in big movies like Bommarillu, Sainikudu and Rakhi. He was presently busy in Tollywood acting in supporting roles.

He also acted in a TV serial named “Mogalirekulu” which was aired on Gemini TV. Mogalirekulu is an Indian soap opera created and written by Manjula Naidu and Bindi Naidu (sister’s leading the TV serial industry as writers, directors and producers). It was started on February 18, 2008 and ended on May 24, 2013.

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Ravi Varma is an actor who has been working in the Telugu film industry as a supporting actor and side character for a  long time. Born in Andhra Pradesh in a very affluent family, Ravi had hopes of getting into the film industry since his early days in school, where he was inspired by the cinema. He was raised in Hyderabad from where he completed his graduation in engineering. After his graduation, he moved to New York City to complete his post-graduation and he later got a job in NYC itself. During his time in New York, Ravi decided to go ahead and attend a few acting classes and he started enjoying acting a lot and decided to take a risk and quit his job and then he moved back to India.

Born on June 15, 1990, in India, Prashant Siddhi is a popular actor in India. He has worked in Kannada film Industry predominantly. He belongs to the community of the Siddis who were earlier the member of the Bantu tribe residing in the Southeast of Africa. Siddis came to India in 628 AD as traders, missionaries and slaves.

Rajesh Rao was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is an Editor by profession in the Marathi Film Industry. Rajesh has completed his Graduation at St. Xaviers Tech Mahim in Marine Science. Rajesh started his career as a Video Editor in 2001. He has edited many Marathi and Hindi films over time. Some of his work includes films like Checkmate, Oxygen, Mumbai Pune Mumbai, Superstar, Tendulkar Out, Popat, 8 Don 75, Ek Daav Dhobipachhad, Ganu, Befaam, Email Female, 72 Mile Ek Pravaas, Dhatting Dhingana, Ya Gol Gol Dabyatla, Sangto Alka, and many more Marathi feature films.

Ramesh Bhat is the most familiar face in Kannada television and movies. Ramesh Bhat started his career dabbling in theatre with groups like Nataranga, Spandana and Benaka.

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