Kannada Movie Review Katha Sangama - Cast & Crew

Sangeetha Katti, whose name after marriage changed to Sangeetha Kulkarni, is a classical singer and composer. Her birthday falls on October 7. She was born to Smt. Bharati Katti and Dr. H. A. Katti in Dharwad, Karnataka, India.

Shruthi is the original name of Haripriya, who is a south Indian actress. Hailing from Chikkaballapura, Karnataka, she is also a Bharathanatyam dancer and model. Her maiden venture is in a Kannada film named Manasugula Mathu Madhura. Later, her films didn’t do that well. However, she got Filmfare nomination for her good performance in the political movie Kallara Santhe. The film Cheluveye Ninne Nodalu gained her much appreciation and she became famous in Karnataka. She also acted in a couple of films in Tamil and Telugu. 

Shruthi proved her dedication towards acting by taking up a workshop for her role in the Telugu venture Abbayi Class Ammayi. Her Kannada film Ugramm was her acclaimed comeback to Karnataka. She gave a natural performance in the film. Later she worked in big banner films in Karnataka. 

Shruthi has some releases lined up in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. Shruthi’s grandfather was a theater artiste .

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Born as Shruthi, the actress changed her name to Haripriya, which acts as her stage name. Following the recent trend to turn the factors of luck, based on numerology the actress altered the spelling of her name to Hariprriya. She was born in Chikkaballapura, Karnataka and studied at Vidya Mandir. Hariprriya completed her Pre-University Course and started learning Bharatanatyam in Bangalore. She claims to have been inspired by her grandfather, who was a theater personality himself. 

Hariprriya made her debut in acting with a Tulu film, Badi, directed by Richard Castelino and later on, starred in other languages such as Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. In 2008, she made her first appearance on the Kannada film screen with the movie, Manasugula Mathu Madhura, which wasn’t much of success. After a few unsuccessful projects, Hariprriya got her first Filmfare nomination as the Best Kannada actress with the political satire, Kallara Santhe in 2009. The movie was directed by D. Sumana Kittur and starred other actors such as Yash, Rangayana Raghu, Kishore, and Sobhraj. Hariprriya’s popularity rose with her next film, Cheluveye Ninne Nodalu, and with that, she started receiving offers from directors of other languages. In 2010, she starred in Kanagavel Kaaka, a Tamil film directed by Kavin Bala. The movie was produced by Saravana and Kishore G. Sha under the production company of Akarshini Theatres and was received with a moderate review. 

Manasi Sudhir is an Indian film actress who is predominantly known for her work in the Kannada movie industry. Born in Udupi, a city in Karnataka, Manasi is quite fond of acting, dance, and music. Manasi’s father wanted her to take arts along with her studies, and Manasi says that acting was something that she had never thought. It happened to her by accident. One of her father’s friend suggested her to start singing, and then he encouraged her to try for movies because he felt that she had a very expressive face. Manasi has worked in several films, including Shankara Punyakoti, Ramya Chaitrakala, and Banaadi. Manasi has also won accolades for her acting in a Tulu film named Kancheelda Bale. She has even worked in the TV serials like Mahabharata, Guru Raghavendra Vaibhava, Anthapura, and Seethe. Most of these serials are based on mythologies. Her short film, Neralu, has received the award for the Best Film at the Bangalore International Short Film Festival. She has even received the State Award for the best children’s film.

Nidhi Hegde is an Indian pop musician, singer, and songwriter. She hails from Delhi, India. Her music offers a distinctive & engrossing listening experience to the mix of traditional Indian melodies & contemporary pop components. Nidhi Hegde’s music is a part of the immensely famous Indian pop subgenre that has dominated the music market. In the Indian pop scene, she is an artist to keep an eye on.

Sowmya Jaganmurthy is an Indian actress and producer best known for her work in the Kannada cinema industry. Sowmya has appeared in films such as Bhinna and Katha Sangama. She went to Bangalore University. Lucia (2013), Bhinna (2019), and Aadi Lakshmi Purana are Sowmya Jaganmurthy's films. She has a huge experience in dance and theatre. She taught regular creative arts courses and workshops to over 700 students at Parikrama, Golden Bead, Neev, Navkis, and Outreach.  She worked as a performer and senior facilitator for Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts for almost three years, performing in London, Germany, Japan, and China and with theatre companies such as the Indian People's Theatre Association, Yours Truly, and We Move. Her talents are contemporary dance, Bharathanatyam, Yoga, Kalaripayattu, Body theatre, Acting, and Painting.

Yagna Shetty, an Indian film actress, was born in a place called Kudremukh, at Karnataka to UmeshShetty and Jayanti Shetty. She completed her schooling from Kendriya , at Panambur, and did herunder graduation in Bachelor of Business Management (BBM) from SDM collegeat Managalore, and later she also pursued MBA in Finance from Manipal University.

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Om Prakash is one of the Tamil cinematographers. He was born on January 26, 1978, in Coimbatore, TamilNadu, India. Besides being cinematographer is a passionate actor too. He has been working as the director of photography since the age of 25 and much younger times. He has worked on many projects in this field and has many years of experience in making feature films. He made many documentaries that are very well published. He has done an over 500 advertising films. His passion towards cinema is huge which cannot be noted.

The Kannada cinema industry is Chandrajith Belliappa's primary area of employment as a writer and director from India. He was born on February 19, 1991. Previously employed at SAP Labs as a web developer. In addition to penning the script for the upcoming Avane Srimannarayana and Kirik Party, Chandrajith is a part of the creative collective "The Seven Odds." For Rakshit Shetty's Paramvah Studios, he writes screenplays full-time. For the 2016 film Kirik Party, he joined the cast as a screenplay and assistant director. In the movie Kathasangama, Chandrajith made his directorial debut as an independent (2019). He has directed one of the seven tales in the collection, as mentioned above. Athayde Srimannarayana (ASN), a Sachin Ravi film, is one of his 2020 releases.

Kiranraj K is an Indian Short film, Documentary Film Maker and a Film Actor who works in the Kannada Film Industry. He was born on 25 August,1989 in Badiadka, Kasaragod district, Kerala in India to parents Achutha K and Godavari Amma.

Rahul PK works in Kannada movies as an associate or assistant director. He has so far handled three movie projects namely, 'Ricky (2016), 'The Plan’(2016) and ‘Ulidavaru Kandant' (2014). He assisted Rakshit Shetty, Rishab Shetty, and Keerthi.

While reply to the much-advertised bilingual film of the year Baahubali has been remarkable on it's in the augural day, creator of the Kannada film ‘Rangi Taranga’ is annoyed with Baahubali's publicizing Bengaluru. The creator has written to the Karnataka Movie Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) protesting that movie theater complex owners had taken Rangi Taranga off monitors or cut the slots in spite of the movie getting a good reply.

Rishab Shetty is a Kannada film actor and director. He was born on July 7 in Keradi Village, Kundapur, Karnataka. He studied film direction at the Government Film and TV Institute in Bangalore and started his career as an Assistant Director to A.M.R. Ramesh in the 2006 bilingual drama film, Cyanide. Afterward, he assisted Arvind Kaushik in a television series before he made his acting debut in the Kannada film, Tuglak (2012), which Kaushik also directed. In 2013, Shetty did a small stint as a police officer in Pawan Kumar’s romantic psychological thriller film, Lucia.

Vinod Divakar is a producer and actor, in the Kannada and Malayalam film industry. Vinod Divakar started his journey as a producer with the Malayalam film ‘Vegam,’ released on July 11, 2014.

Arvind Kashyap is a well-known cinematographer and actor. He was born on May 5, 1992. His hometown is Bangalore, India. He is known for Kantara (2022), 777 Charlie (2022), Lucia (2013), Bell Bottom (2019), Dayavittu Gamanisi (2017), and Katha Sangama (2019). He debuted as an independent cinematographer with Dayavittu Gamanisi in 2017. He worked as a director of photography at 777 Charlie and at Bell Bottom. He was a chief assistant cinematographer at Humble Politician Nograj and Kirik Party. He was an assistant director at Project Lucia in September 2012. He was also a director of photography at Dayavittu Gamanisi in 2017. He has completed his school education at Kumarans. He has studied B. Tech. and mechanical Engineering at BMS College of Engineering (BMSCE).

Deepak Yeragara is a famous Telugu cinematographer. He obtained a Bachelor of Computer Application degree from Infant Jesus School and a Diploma in Cinematography from the Govt Film and Television Institute. He started his career only after finishing school. He worked as an intern in the Kannada film industry for two years, after which he came to Mumbai in 2015 and worked as a lighting technician in the light unit. After working here for a year, he also worked in the Gujarati and Kannada film industries.

Saurav Prateek Sanyal is a Mumbai-born cinematographer who works predominantly in the Marathi film industry. Saurav is a post-graduate (M.A.) in Cinematography from Annapurna International School of Film and Media (2017). He started his film career with the comedy short film 'Cheeni Kum Hai' (2018). Directed by Rajat Verma, Saurav was the cinematographer of this project. He was also one of the cinematographers in the movie 'Katha Sangama' (Confluence of Tales). The Kannada language anthology film is a confluence of seven short stories directed by seven directors, cinematographers, seven editors, and several musicians. Saurav was the cinematographer of the last tale in the anthology.

Venkatesh Anguraj is a Film cinematographer. He mainly works for Kannada Film Industry. He also works with Telugu and Tamil Industry. His other name is A. Venkatesh. Angurajhas also associated with directors like Saran, Venkatesh, and Suraj. He did 30 plus movies in his career. He made his debut with the project Endendigu. As a cinematographer, he did Sikka in the year 1997, Marumagan in the year 1995, Samurai in the year 2002, Agni Gundam in the year 1984, Nadhi in the year 1969, Maqsad in the year in the year 1984, VeeraThalattu in the year 1998, PyarHuaChoriChori in the year 1991.

Gagan Baderia is an Indian music director and composer, whose field of work is the the Kannada industry. His passion for musical notes and sound began to bud in his childhood at the age of seven only. He has taken training under a renowned Hindustan Classical Vocals Kirana Gharana. Owing to this he made a strong base in Hindustani Classical Music. He also does the mixing of different tracks. He has a good degree of theoretical knowledge related to music.

At 32, Nobin Paul is one of the most renowned and talented musicians, down in South India. Nobin is an Indian musician, film score, and soundtrack composer. He has worked mainly for the Kannada film industry and composed songs in Kannada films. Nobin was born on 11 April, 1983.

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.

Bharat MC is an editor, director, writer, music composer, and VFX artist of Indian origin. He is based in Bengaluru and has almost ten years of experience working in film and audio production. He went to the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath Art Complex in Bangalore to study Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. He also holds a certificate course in filmmaking from the University of Gothenburg. In 2009 he founded Film Factory India in Bangalore and worked as a creative director for three years. In 2013, he founded Crosscut Films and works there to date as a creative director. He also worked at The Edit Room as a colorist and chief editor for some time. He has directed the short films Flight of Magic (2013), Fading Red (2016), and Krandan (2011).

Sudheera Venkatesh is an Indian Film public relations officer. He commenced his journey in the year 1985. Having done 1200+ films, Sudheera boasts 35 years of experience as a Public Relations Officer, mirroring all his successes. He is the founder of Raghvendra Chitravani. The all-time best movies, “Mungaru Male” and “Dhuniya” got him recognition for his work. He is continuing Sri Raghavendra Chitravani’s legacy. A few big names such as “Hombale films”; “Rockline Productions”; “Pushkar Films”; “And SV Productions” are permanent clients. With Fluency in 5 Indian languages, Sudheera Venkatesh has worked on assignments beyond Karnataka in his era. His noble works were awarded, the Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Kempe Gowda award, Nagara Jilla Kannada Sahitya Prashasthi, and many more. It is an honor to know about such a multi-talented personality.

B S Avinash, also known as Avinash Yelandur, is an Indian film actor. He was born on 29 August 1974 in Karnataka, India. After completing his school education in Karnataka, he attended and graduated from the University of Mysore. Avinash's father was a businessman. He has a sister named Anu. His wife's name is Geetha, and he has a son with her, Akul. He joined his late father's business earlier. He attended several workshops on acting and building confidence before auditioning for films. He played the role of Andrew in the movie KGF Chapter 1 in 2018. The movie was a box office hit globally. Then, he appeared in its sequel- KGF Chapter 2 in 2022. Avinash is a fitness enthusiast and ran in the Mysore Dasara Celebration Marathon in 2012.

Balaji Manohar is an Indian-Actor. He mainly works in the Kannada Film Industry. He is thinking of getting into the Telugu, and Tamil Film Industry. He is a very hardworking, and dedicated person. Some of the movies in which he has acted include Avane Srimannarayan, and Athade Srimannarayan. In the year 2020, his movie Athade Srimannarayan gets released and it is highly appreciated by its audience. Some hit movies are named as Lucia, and Churikatte.

Prakash Belawadi is a famous Indian journalist, activist, TV and film personality, and a theater artist. Born in the erstwhile state of Mysore, now Bangalore, Karnataka, he was born into a family of famous theater artists. Make-up Nani, his father, was a famous theater actor and has acted in many Kannada films as well. Also, he was a famous makeup artist. Bhargavi, his mother, was an eminent Kannada theater personality. His siblings Sujata, Pradeep, and Sudha, are also famous theater personalities. Prakash co-founded the Centre for Film and Drama, Bangalore, and also started Suchitra School of Cinema and Dramatic Arts at the Suchitra Cinema and Cultural Academy campus in Bangalore in 2012.

Raj B Shetty is a famous Indian actor/director and screenwriter who works in the Kannada cinema. Raj directed/wrote and appeared in the 2017 movie Ondu Motteya Kathe. Raj started his career as a radio jockey at 92.7 Big FM in Mangalore. Raj then joined a theatre group and started writing plays. Along with theatre play, he also started directing short movies.

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