Kannada Movie Review Mayabazar 2016 - Cast & Crew

Sudha Rani is an Indian actress in Kannada movie industry. Sudharani was born to Nagalakshmi and Gopalakrishna. She started her modeling career in print ads at the age of 3.Her mother joined her in dance classes at age 5.Sudha Rani is a Bharata Natyam and Kuchipudi dancer. Sudha Rani has featured in several critically acclaimed films in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. Films like Anand, Panchama Veda, Mysooru Mallige, Anuraga Sangama, Mannina Doniand, Sparsha etc. are some of her memorable films. She has twice won the Filmfare Awards and Karnataka State Film Awards for her performances in Kannada film industry.

Sudha Rani began her film career as a child artist in the film Kiladi Kittu in 1978.In 1989 she has acted in her first film which is Tamil and after a gap of three years she has made her debut in the Tamil film “Vasanthakala Paravai" and that was declared a hit. Following the same success she has acted more than ten Tamil films. Sudha Rani speaks Tamil fluently. She eventually appeared in Ranganayaki, directed by legendry director Puttanna Kanagal. Dr Rajkumar selected her to be the heroine of the film Anand opposite Shivrajkumar in 1986. She went on to appear in Movies as Mana Mechida Hudugi, Aasegobba Meesegobba, Midida Shruthi and Anna Tangi. She paired with noted Kannada actor Ramesh Aravind in more than eight films, including Shrigandha, Aragini, Anuraga Sangama and Panchama Veda. Sudha Rani overshadowed other leading actresses in the Kannada film industry in 1990s.

Sudha Rani got married to Sanjay, an anesthesia specialist, in the year 1999 and settled in United States. She got divorced in 2000 and later settled in India. Later she married her relative, Goverdhan and has a daughter, Nidhi.

Ashwini Puneeth is an Indian producer associated with PRK productions, along with her superstar husband, Puneeth Rajkumar. She was born on 14 March in Chikmagalur. She has produced many films like Kaavaludaari, Crossroads, and Maya Bazar. She is a successful Kannada producer. Her husband, Puneeth, met her through some common friends in 1996. After Being 'friends' for eight months, he proposed to her. She readily agreed as she was also in love with him. While Puneeth's family was more than happy with the alliance, Ashwini's family couldn't believe it and were reluctant to accept the proposal. After six months, they too were convinced, and Puneeth got married to Ashwini. They got married on 1st Dec 1999 and have two daughters: Drithi and Vandita.

Midhun Mukundan is an Indian Musician, and composer. He mainly works for Kannada Film Industry. He is very famous for his work in the movie like Srinivas ​Kalyana in the year 2017, OnduMotteyeKathe in the year 2017; other projects are Kahi in the year 2016, KaafiThota in the year 2017. He is also an Indian Music director and actor by profession. He has Indian nationality. His movie KaafiThota breaks the theater in the year 2017.

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.

Vasishta N. Simha is a famous Indian movie actor, who is best known for his work in Kannada films. Vasishta quit his job as a software engineer and decided to enter the Kannada film industry as an actor in 2011. He worked on an unreleased movie named Hubballi Hudagaru initially. He had his first release with Arya's Love (2013).

Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Prakash Rai, in Bangalore, is an actor, director, and producer. He is also a television presenter and has worked in films of many languages. He is best known for his work in the film industry of South India, and for playing roles of a villain in quite a few Bollywood films. He hails from a Tulu and Kannada-speaking household and is fluent in various other languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. He also has an actor brother named Prasad Raj. He studied at St. Joseph’s Boy’s School, and subsequently, at St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Both institutions are in Bangalore. Prakash has three children, Meghana, Pooja, and Sidhu, from his earlier marriage to the actress Lalitha Kumari. His son, unfortunately, passed away in the year 2004. He is currently married to the choreographer Pony Verma. In the first few years of his career, he worked in Kannada Doordarshan, doing serials like Guddada Bhootha, and he also acted in supporting roles in Kannada movies like Nishkarsha.

Radhakrishna Reddy is an Indian director and writer who works mainly in the Kannada film industry. He was born and brought up in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh. He had a passion for filmmaking, since childhood. He is known for “Mayabazar 2016,” a comedy crime drama that was released in 2020, directed by Radhakrishna Reddy, written by Bhat Pavan and Radhakrishna Reddy, and produced by M. Govind and Ashwini Puneeth Rajkumar. This movie was also his debut film in the Kannada film industry. Ali Safdari composed the music, and Prakash Raj, Raj B. Shetty, and Vasishta N. Simha played the leading roles and Achyuth Kumar, Abhi, Shravan Aithal, and Anbu played the supporting roles in the movie.

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.

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.