Kannada Movie Review Kurukshetra - Cast & Crew

Remya Nambeesan is a chirpy young Indian actress, whose primary focus is Mollywood. Born on January 1, 1986, Remya Nambeesan was introduced into the film industry with the 2000 Malayalam flick Sayahnam. R Sarath helmed direction for this flick. After that, she went on to work in various Malayalam films as a child artiste. Then she was seen in insignificant supporting roles including Narendran Makan Jayakanthan Vaka, Gramophone, etc. She had worked under the direction of Sarath for three times. Eventually, she got lead roles since the year 2006. 

Aditi Arya is an Indian beauty, pageant title holder, model and an entrepreneur. She was born on September 18, 1993 in Delhi, India. Aditi studied at Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School in Chandigarh during her early years and later attended the University of Delhi in India. She graduated her Bachelor’s at Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies. 

Bharathi Vishnuvardhan is an Indian actress who worked mainly in Kannada films. She also appeared in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. During the 60s to 80s, Bharathi appeared as a leading lady in Sandalwood. Bharathi who wanted to act in Marathi films too didn’t do so, and she later mused over that. 

Born on 15 August 1950, Bharathi hails from a Marathi-speaking culture. During 1975, she wedded Kannada superstar Vishnuvardhan. Bharathi ventured into the film industry with the 1964 Hindi flick Geet Gaya Patharon Ne. She ventured into the Kannada film industry with the 1966 romcom Love in Bangalore. Bharathi received critical accolades for her flicks Bangaaradha Manushya, Runa Muktalu, Gandondu Hennaru, Doorada Betta, Avalukendru Oru Manam, Bangaarada Jinke, and Bhagya Jyoti. Bangarada Manushya in which Bharathi shared screen space with Dr Rajkumar was a landmark in her career. Bangarada Jinke, Gandondu Hennaru and Bhagyajyothi are some other Kannada flicks which gained her recognition. 

The serial Janani aired in Kannada Doordarshan also was a showcase to her acting prowess. Runamuktalu was the film in which Bharathi worked after a long gap of 10 years. Bharathi feels that an artist will never be complacent and yearns to achieve more. 

Dilip Kumar, Dr.Vishnuvardhan, Dr.Rajkumar, Dr.NTR, ANR, Dr.Sivaji Ganesan, M G Ramachandran, Manoj Kumar, Gemini Ganesan, V Ravichandran, Krishna, Shoban Babu, Kalyan Kumar, Vinod Khanna and Dr.Ambrish are some of the popular actors with whom Bharathi shared screen space. Bharathi is still remembered for her character roles. 

Suraj, Khel, Purab Aur Paschim, Izzatdaar, Uttar Dakshin, Aao Pyaar Karen and Kunwaara Baap are some of the hit flicks of Bharathi in Bollywood. Bharathi is in the film industry for over 5 decades. She is not bothered about the quantity of films that she acted but instead she is happy that she has carved a niche for herself in the hearts of the fans.

Meghana, whose full name is Meghana Raj, is an Indian actress and model who is mostly seen and known for her performances in the Malayalam movies. Meghana has also been acting in other South Indian Industries like Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. Meghana Was born on May 3, 1990 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India to the noted actors and producers of Kannada film industry- Actor Sundar Raj, who has acted in over 180 Kannada films and Pramila Joshai, who is a famous and noted actress and producer of the Kannada Film Industry.

Pavithra Lokesh is a popular South Indian Actress born on 19th February. She is the daughter of yesteryear actor Mysore Lokesh, who has acted in about 300 Kannada movies. She also has a brother named Adi Lokesh who has acted in several Kannada movies. She got married in 2008 to Suchendra Prasad.

Pragya Jaiswal, born in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, studies at the Symbiosis Law School, Pune. During her college days, she took a part in Miss Pune Contest, won the competition, and surprisingly got a direct wild card entry into Femina Miss India 2008 where she got the title of Miss Fresh Face, Miss Dancing Queen, and Miss Friend Of The Earth. After completing her graduation, she decided to join a law firm in Mumbai, but as she couldn’t be there on time, she started modeling for advertisement campaigns for big brands. Pragya also received the Symbiosis Sanskritik Puraskar Award on 22 January 2014 for her work in the field of art and culture. Pragya made her debut in 2014 in the Bollywood movie Titoo MBA. Her maiden film was Virattu (a Tamil film), also scripted in Telugu as Dega.

Darshan also known as Darshan Thoogudeep is an actor from South India well known for his roles mainly in Kannada movies. He is known to be one of the most famous and credible film stars in the Kannada cinema industry.

Sanjeev Sudeep, known by the short name, Sudeep is an Indian film actor, director, screenwriter, playback singer, and producer. He has mostly worked in Kannada cinema. He has also appeared in Big Boss version of Kannada television. Sudeep, being a Mechanical engineer by graduation first had the opportunity begin his acting career with a television advertisement title 'Premada Kadambari'.

Naganna is a South Indian director, writer, lyricist and actor who works in the Kannada film industry. He was born on 21st March. He is known for Kannada movies like Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna. He is also known as Naganna Nagaraj and B. Naganna. Naganna is the son of the renowned Kannada film producer late R. Lakshman.

Jayanan Vincent is a veteran Indian cinematographer born on 12 September 1959(Aged 57). Vincent has captured nearly 200 films in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi and Bollywood travelling from the Black and White era to the Digital era. He is the son of legendary Cinematographer/Director late Aloysius Vincent & elder brother of promising ace cinematographer Ajayan Vincent.

V. Harikrishna is an Indian movie background score and soundtrack author, playback vocalist and also a movie producer. He has primarily produced background score for many Kannada movies. After his job as a software engineer and associate music artist, he made his entrance as a free music director in the movie Jothe Jotheyali, which starred the famous actor Darshan and was released in the year 2006. From that point onwards, he has been making music for many of Darshan's movies. 

"Kiran Kumar Manne is an Art Director in the Telugu Film Industry. He was born in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. He later moved to Hyderabad, Telangana to pursue a career in the Film Industry. Kiran Kumar went to Zilla Parisath High School, Visakhapatnam. And then he got graduated from SV University, Tirupati in the year 1996.

Joni Harsha is a prominent film editor and recently turned producer. He is a veteran of the Tamil and Kannada film industry, having worked behind the scenes on more than a hundred films in the two film industries in South India. Recently, he decided to produce and launched a comedy TV serial that currently airs on primetime TV on the channel Zee Kannada. Harsha began his career in the film industry in the early parts of the 1990’s.

Dhani Aelay is a Graphic Designer, Public Relations Officer, and Title Designer in the Telugu film industry. He has worked in numerous films since 1999. He has worked in ‘Sultan’, and ‘Anaganaga Oka Ammayi’ in 1999; ‘Itlu Sravani Subramanyam’ in 2001; ‘Shivamani’ in 2003; ‘Andhrawala’, ‘Athade Oka Sainyam’, and ‘Venky’ in 2004; ‘Super’, ‘Dhana 51’, and ‘Gowtham SSC’ in 2005; ‘Pokiri’, ‘Seetharamudu’, and ‘Samanyudu’ in 2006; ‘Desaramudu’, ‘Madhumasam’, and ‘Chandamama’ in 2007; ‘Swagatam’, ‘Idhi Sangathi’, and ‘Aatadista’, in 2008; ‘Unnaipol Oruvan’, ‘Samardhudu’, and ‘Kasko’ in 2009; ‘Simha’, ‘Pappu’, and ‘Saradaga Kasepu’ in 2010;

Arjun Sarja was born as Srinivasa Sarja. He is an Indian film director as well as an actor. Arjun Sarja was born on 15th of August in the year 1964 to a Kannada film actor Shakti Prasad and an art teacher Lakshmi, in Mysore, Karnataka. He also had an elder brother. Arjun Sarja's father always disagreed in letting him enter the film world as he himself has been an experienced actor and he did not want his son get into an acting career.

Ananth Nag is an actor. He was born on 24th November in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He has worked in Tamil and Malayalam films. Ananth Nag’s acting debut had been in the film ‘Neram’ released in 2013. He also acted in films like ‘Amara Kaaviyam’ released in 2014 and ‘Premam’ released in 2015. Ananth Nag pursued graduation with a bachelor's degree from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and began working as a software engineer.

Nikhil Gowda also known as Nikhil Kumaraswamy, is an Indian actor who displays his skills in Telugu and Kannada film industry. He made his first cry on 22nd January 1990 which currently makes his 27 years old. Besides being an actor, the multi-talented Nikhil is also a businessman. He made the third generation of the Gowda family, a family full of politicians. His father H. D. Kumaraswamy being the former Chief Minister of Karnataka and Grandfather H. D. Deve Gowda the former Prime Minister, he was supposed to jump on the bandwagon. However the youngster had other plans. He mentioned how his father has associations with the Kannada film industry and his desire to see the apple of his eye as a hero. He debuted in the movie Jaguar, under the direction of Mahadev and home productions.

Shashi Kumar is born on 2nd December 1965 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. He is an Indian Kannada Actor, as well as a politician from the state of Karnataka. His wife's name is Saraswati. He has been seen in many Kannada films of which two 1990 films are very successful, namely Rani Maharani and Baare Nanna Muddina Rani; from this movie, he has to gain very popularity, and he became the top hero of Kannada cinema.

Sonu Sood is a famous Indian Cinema actor, model who is famous for portraying Chhedi Singh in the Salman Khan Starrer Dabbang, for which he received the Apsara Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role and IIFA Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role. Besides working in Bollywood movies, He has also acted in Tollywood, Kollywood and Kannada language films. Sood was born on July 30th, 1973. Sood’s father is an entrepreneur and his mother was a professor, he grew up in Nagpur and received his degree in Electrical Engineering. He is from Moga, Punjab, who made his debut as an actor in 1999 with the Tamil film Kallazhagar. His first Bollywood debut was in 2002 in the movie Shaheed-E-Azam where he portrayed the role of Bhagat Singh. The Movie could not hit the screens due to a controversy and it was banned. Sood has also participated in the Mr India pageant and appeared in commercials of Apollo tyres and Airtel. Having won critical acclaim for his work in Tollywood movies, he received the Nandi Award for Best Villain and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor in Telugu for the role of Pashupathy in the movie Arundhati. Sood has worked in well acclaimed movies like Yuva(2004), Ashiq Banaya Apne(2005), Athadu(2005), Jodha Akbar(2008), Dookudu(2011) and Shootout At Wadala(2013). Sood married his wife Sonali on September 25th, 1996 who hails from Andhra Pradesh and holds a degree in MBA. He also has two sons named Ishant and Aryan. He went to fulfil his childhood dream of becoming an actor, by getting a break as a villain in a Tamil movie for which he had to shave his head. His favorite co-stars to work with are Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwariya Rai Bachchan. He is a teetotaler and a fitness freak who loves to exercise regularly.

Jadalathimmanahalli Krishnappa Srinivasa Murthy Aka Srinivasa Murthy was born in Kolar in the state of Mysore. He is a known Kannada actor and television director. He is now at the age of 67 and living in Chikkaballapura in Karnataka. He is excellent for his work as a director and has directed many television series in Kannada. He has appeared in supporting roles in many Kannada films. He entered film industry in 1977. He started his career as a stage artist. He performed in professional and amateur theaters.