Kannada Movie Review Chowka - Cast & Crew

Antara Mitra was born on 10th July 1987 in the state of West Bengal. She is a very famous playback singer, who is absolutely good with her vocals. The solid platform which gave her an avenue to the Bollywood film industry was her participation in a reality show of Sony TV. The name of the show is Indian Idol of season two which took place in the year 2006. She was an active participant of the show, which turned out to be the key reason for her entry into playback singing. 

Antara Mitra had an absolute enthusiasm in singing and her father was the one who motivated her. This had moulded her to become the finalist of the shows Indi...

Deepa Sannidhi’s actual name is Rahasya. Born in the year 1990 in Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka, she is Kannada actress. Her father, a coffee estate owner and mother a homemaker. She was in her first year of Architecture, when she was offered a role in the movie. She dropped out of college to pursue her interests in acting. The year was 2011.

Saarathi was the debut movie of Sannidhi. This movie is a romantic action starring Darshan. She has played the role of Rukmini in this movie, which received good reviews and was a blockbuster. Her next movie was Paramathma, directed by Yogaraj Bhat. She is cast opposite Puneeth Rajkumar where she plays the role of Deepa aka Thithi Vade. This movie too did very well in the box-office. 2012, saw Deepa in Jaanu, where she is cast opposite Yash. Sakkare saw her in the year 2013 opposite Ganesh...

Aindrita Ray is a prominent Kannada actress, who hails from Rajasthan. Aindrita Ray is a beautiful model, who turned into an actress. Her father worked in the Indian Air Force and hence they shifted their residence to Bangalore. She completed her Alma Mater from Baldwin Girls School in Bangalore. She completed her Bachelor degree in Dental Science from M. R. Ambedkar Dental College, Bangalore.

She was interested in modeling and hence she participated in modeling shows during while studying in college. Her style and beauty attracted many offers and she got huge offers to model in various advertisements. She has also acted in a few short films. ‘Meravanige’ in Kannada was her debut movie and she was appreciated well for her performance. ‘Manasaare’ was the film, which got her many awards f...

Bhavana, a Malayalam Actress, was born in Thrissur, Kerala in the year 1986. by an acting bug at a very early age, this actress started her first movie at the mere age of sixteen while still studying. Her first movie in Malayalam she debuted was Nammal opposite Siddharth, Jishnu and Renuka Menon. This movie received great reviews and acclaimed awards in the cinema industry.   

Not only does she act in Malayalam movies, but she also acts in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films too. Language is no barrier, is the point which clearly comes out in her acting talent. Having shot to fame in her first movie, she started getting a lot of offers to act. 

The year 2010 saw her enter the Kannada movie industry where she acted in her first movie titled Jackie opposite Puneeth, directed by Duniya Soori. She plays the role ...

Priyamani is a talented actress of the Southern film industry. She received the prestigious National Award for her role in the Tamil film Paruthiveeran. Before entering into the film industry, Priyamani was doing modeling. 

Born on June 4, 1984 in Bengaluru, Priyamani debuted into the film industry with the film Tamil flick Kangalal Kaidhu Sei. The film was a disaster at the box office and she shifted to Telugu and Malayalam films. Pellaina Kothalo is her debut Telugu film opposite Jagapati Babu. This film gained her the much-needed recognition and it was declared a super hit. She came to Tamil industry with a bang through the flick Paruthiveeran, sharing screen sp...

AP Arjun is a multi-talented and highly skilled personality from the Kannada cinema. He is credited to have all the skills that are required to bring the much-needed improvement and revolution in the Kannada film industry. He was born in the year 1972 on 8th of August and is 42 years old. His birthplace is in a town in Karnataka named Mandya.

When describing his profession, words fall short because he is a very versatile and creative artist. He is known for directing films commendably, writing screenplays for various movies in a beautiful fashion and also writing some extremely soulful lyrics for various famous songs.

AP Arjun came into the Kannada film industry with high hopes and a bag full of talents. His entry was marked by the mo...

S. Krishna is an Indian film director and a cinematographer. He has mainly contributed to the Kannada film Industry. His works as a cinematographer was very unique and he gave a new look to cinematography with his excellent visual effects. His breathtaking work could be seen in the movie Mungaru Male, a romantic classic film. He's a graduate from the Government Film and Television Institute, in Bangalore.

Shooting for Mungaru Male as a cinematographer was a huge challenge for him as 80% of the shooting was done in rains. He gave his best shot in the movie that could be seen up on the screens. The movie was a huge hit and the reason for such a grand success was his cinematography. In 2006 he was even honored with the best Cinematographer for the year Award by the Karnataka Government. After this, he worked w...

Santhosh Rai Pathaje is a Cinematographer of South Indian film industry, lives in Bangalore, India. He has skills in photography media productions such as Video, Television, Video production, entertainment, commercials, documentaries, new media, film, post production, and film production. Along with all these , he is also a scriptwriter, costume designer, film director, and a colourist. Critics say,“if the photography of a Kannada movie is looking luxurious, and glossy, then definitely Santhosh Rai Pathaje is behind it.”

Santhosh has proved his excellence in more than twenty movies. He has proficiency in four languages such as in Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, and English. Originally, Santhosh is from the town Ajirangala Kaniyoo, situated near Puttu...

Satya Hegde was born on the 17th of May in the year 1975. He was born in Haliyal, Uttar Kannada, Karnataka, India. He is attached to the Kannada Film Industry. He is a cinematographer by profession. He works mainly in Kannada films. He made his debut in this Industry as a cinematographer in the year 2002 through the movie Taali Katuuva Shubhavele. He has been a cinematographer in over twenty films in his entire career. He had reached great heights of success in 2007 and 2013 when he was a part of the movies Duniya and Mayna respectively. He had received awards for these films.

His parents were Savithri and P. Hegde. His family was Brahmin. He did his schooling from Carmel High School in his hometown. His father wanted him to be a computer engineer. So he was sent to go through a computer course before he could actually take up ...

Shekar Chandru or commonly known as Shekar Chandra is a Kannada cinematographer from India, born on 1st January 1970 in Bangalore, Karnataka. Chandra started his career by cinematographing his first-ever movie Krishnan Love Story in 2010. Apart from that, he has cinematographed various other movies including Armane, and Bombaat in 2008, Gulama and Sangama in 2009, the famous Krishnan Sequel, Andhar Bahar in 2013, and Chowka in 2017, and many more.

He was also nominated by SIIMA (South Indian International Movie Awards ) as the best Cinematographer for two consecutive years, one in 2014 and the other in 2015. He has released the movie Kotigobba 3 in 2021, which is an action thriller starring Sudeep.

Anoop Seelin was born in the town of Hassan, Karnataka on 24th of October. He's known to be a multi-talented personality, especially in the Kannada film industry. He works as a music director as well as a playback singer.

Singing was just another of Anoop’s passions and hobbies, and he pursued his hobby by working in the orchestra. He never wanted to pursue his career in singing which is why he had done a course in LLB. 

Anoop entered the singing group of Hamsalekha just to work on his hobby. It is here where he recognised his potential as a singer. Hamsalekha gave him the required guidance to pursue his career in music industry further. Hamsalekha can be given a huge credit for making Anoop all that he is today. He wou...

Arjun Janya is an Indian singer and music composer. In 2006, he made his debut in the industry with Kannada movie Autograph Please starring Dilip Raj and Sanjjanaa. In the south film industry, he is a score director and composer of high demand. The movies for which he composes music have done well on box-office in past. He is known for music in Sanchari and Singam. He was born on May 13, 1980, in Bengaluru, Karnataka to Anusuya and Ashwath Kumar. He learnt music from James and thinks of AR Rahman as his inspiration. It is said that a meeting between him and AR Rahman changed him and converted him into what he is today.

He played keyboard in the background for about thirty films. He started his career with being an assistant to composers K. Kalyan and V. Manohar. His music first became a hit with the film Biruga...

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. 

Harikrishna also owns a music company "D-Beats" which was established in the year 2013. And the first film to be produced by the company was the movie Bulbul, which was released in the year 2013. He has won three back to back Filmfare Awards for Best Music for his music producti...

Yogaraj Bhat was born on 8th October, 1973 in Mandarthi, in coastal district Udupi of Karnataka. He is the 7th child of Ramachandra and Jayalakshmi Bhat. Ramachandra lost his life in a boat mishap.

Yogaraj is a famous director in Sandalwood industry. He has also tasted success as a lyricist, producer and screenwriter. He is mostly known for his 2006 hit Mungaru Male, which was written by Bhat along with Preetam Gubbi. He directed the film and wrote lyrics with others. Mungaru Male recorded the highest box office collections in Sandalwood history. His other achievements include introducing talented technicians to the industry like Pawan Kumar of Lucia, Pawan Wadeyar and many others.

His lyricist journey started with Mungaru Maleye from his film Mungaru Male and there was no looking bac...

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 l...

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 has sung in Kannada, Tamil, Telegu and Malayalam movies. He has also hosted the renowned reality TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa on Zee Kannada and has also performed in shows with the great Indian percussionist Ustad Zakir Hussain. Prakash is one of the four singers of the song ‘Jai Ho’, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The song also won a Grammy Award in the category ‘Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Medi...

Arun Sagar is an Kannada cinema actor. He also worked as Art director and comedian. His birthplace is Sagara,Karnataka, where he was born on 23rd October 1965. This versatile personality has done around 15 Kannada movies, one Tamil and one Telugu movie and he was a part of 7 TV shows. He earned Karnataka State Award in 2002 and 3rd Suvarna Flim Award in 2010 for Best Art Director by his talent. Arun sagars wife name is Meera and they have a really beautiful daughter.

He currently lives in Bangalore, India. He isa well published name as an Art director. He won the National Award for Best Environmental Film for His First Movie Bhoomi Geeta. Poori Jagannath, Veerashankar,Meher Ramesh and K Raghavendra Rao are the directors with whom he has worked. His contribution in the movie Sri Manj...

Mohan B Kere works in the Indian film industry as an Art Director. He mainly works in the Kannada Film Industry. Mohan was born on 25th May and currently lives in Bangalore, Karnataka. Mohan B Kere is married to Rekha and is the father of two children. He started his career from the film titled Krishna, which released in 2007, produced by Ramesh Yadav and directed by M. D. Sridhar. Mohan has also created the 3D painting in the field. Mohan has contributed his production designing skills in Kannada Film Industry for more than a hundred movies and still showing up in many more movies.

KM Prakash is an Indian editor of films. He was born in the city of Bangaluru, located in Karnataka, India. He has worked in industries like Sandalwood, Kollywood, and Tollywood. He works predominantly in the Kannada movie industry. He has worked in popular movies like Trivikrama, Marigold, etc. His latest film was Trivikrama which will be released in 2021. Trivikrama is a romantic movie starring Vikram Ravichandran, Akansha Sharma, and Akshara Gowda. The movie is directed by Sahana Murthy S and produced by Somanna. He is the candidate for the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Editor for the movie “Tony,” released in 2013. He made his debut in 2009 as a film editor in the film “Meghave Meghave.”

His movies like “Meghave Meghave” released in 2009, Ra...

Born in Bengaluru, Vijay Raghavendra is an Indian Actor, who mainly works in Kannada films. He began his life as a child star and eventually worked in profuse films as the male protagonist. In 2013, he won the first enlightenment of Bigg Boss (Kannada). He has been married to Spandana since 2007.

Raghavendra is the son of prominent Kannada movie theater producer, S. A. Chinne Gowda. The famous veteran Kannada entertainer, Dr. Rajkumar, is his uncle, and at variance, the famous actors relish Shiva Rajkumar and Puneet Rajkumar to be his cousins. Vijay Raghavendra began his life as a scanty in the big screen movie, ‘Chalisuva Modagalu’ (1982), starring his uncle Rajkumar, and Ambika. His next movie, ‘Chinnari Mutha’, became a colossal success, and he became a household appoint in Karnataka....

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.

He was born on February 16th in the year 1977 in the city of Mysuru (then known as Mysore) in Karnataka. He was born to parents Meena and Thoogudeepa Srinivas (also known as Mysore Srinivas) one of the most well known evergreen actors in the history of Kannada cinema known for his notorious and villainous roles.

After his father had died in the year 1995, Darshan had to struggle a lot before he had found his way to being one of the stars in the cinema industry in Kannada. He had entered the field at a very humble note by...

Prajwal Devaraj is an actor from the Kannada film Industry. He currently lives in Bangalore, India. Prajwal is the offspring of a famous actor ‘Devaraj’, and that’s now his last name comes from. His father is known as ‘Dynamic King’ and that’s why people call Prajwal ‘Dynamic Prince’ – father like son. Prajwal finished his Bachelors in Arts degree in Shri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College of Management Studies which is at Bangalore.

His debut film was ‘Sixer’ in 2007 which was in Kannada. With his first film, success came along. At the Suvarna Film Awards, he was awarded the Best Debut Actor award. He was also a part of some remarkable films of his career. They included Gulama, Murali Meets Meera, which was a...

Prem Kumar is an Indian actor working in Kannada films. He made his debut in the year 2004 with the film ‘Praana’ but got his fame with the 2005 hit film ‘Nenapirali’. Prem even won a Filmfare Best Actor Award for this movie. He was born on 18 April 1975 in Karnataka to a weaver.

Prem did his schooling from Kalyani School and after that got a job in Indian Telephone Industries Limited. He became a weaver just like his father and continued his work for 13 years. Prem was an ardent movie lover and spent half of his earnings in watching movies in the theatres. He used to watch 3-4 movies per week and used to buy film related magazines and papers.

On his friend’s insistence, he started working in serials as a junior artist. Kumar worked in Manvantara and appear...

Bungle Shama Rao Dwarakanath on 19th August 1942, in Hunsur to Bungle Shama Rao and Jayamma. He has a diploma in Mechanical Engineering before he entered world of cinema, not many know that. He was named Dwarakish by the well known Kannada film maker C. V. Shivashankar.

After completing his diploma, Dwarakish along with his brother started an automotive spare parts business in Mysore. He was attracted to acting from young age and often pestered his maternal uncle, a famous director Hunsur Krishnamurthy for a chance in movies.

Dwarakish produced his first film Mamateya Bandhana in 1966. And his independent production was in 1969, Mayor Muthanna under his own banner Dwaraka Films. He had Dr Rajkumar and Bharathi in lead roles, which was a great hit. From here on, he had a se...

Diganth is one of the sizzling male model-turned-actors, who will melt your heart. He is the chocolate hero in Sandalwood, and his cute expression and dialogue delivery had always impressed the teenage girls very much. His soft look and youthful mannerism has made girls’ meltdown their hearts. He is one of the hunky sandalwood actors, who got his start in the industry as a model! He made his acting debut in Miss California in 2006. Born to Mr. Krishnamurthy, a professor, and Mallika Krishnamurthy, who are his father and mother, Diganth joined the film industry in 2006. 

He is now an unstoppable force in the Kannada film industry for performance as "Doodhpeda", in Gaalipata (2008) which was a runway hit and established him in Kannada film industry. He made his screen impact even with films such as Pancharang...

Gurukiran or also known as Gurukiran Shetty is a well-known music director from the Kannada film industry, who started his career in the year 1994 as director V. Manohar’s assistant. He was born on October 28 in Mangalore, Karnataka to K Jayaram Shetty and Ratnakanti. He studied at St. Aloysius Primary School in the early 70’s and he is an active class singer back then. He graduated Commerce in Mangalore University and after that he started to perform in orchestras as a singer and keyboardist. 

Gurukiran entered the film industry as a music director for the Upendra-starrer and directorial film entitled A in the year 1998. Due to the ...

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,...

Sambharam V Sridhar is an Indian music composer who works in the Kannada film industry. Sridhar hails from Bengaluru. He attended lectures at SJR College, Bengaluru. 1620 people follow his Facebook account where they get latest updates of Sridhar’s projects. Sridhar got his first Sandalwood chance when the producers zeroed in on him for Mussanje Maathu which released in 2008. Although Sridhar was a newcomer at the time, famous Bollywood vocalists such as Sonu Nigam, Kunal Ganjawala, Udit Narayan, and Shreya Ghoshal lent their voices to the songs for Mussanje Maathu.

In fact, people loved its soundtrack. At the 56th Filmfare Awards (South) ceremony, Sridhar also got a nomination as well. His next project Dubai Babu had Kumar Sanu for the track Pe Pe...

Tharun is a prominent director, writer, and actor predominantly working in Kannada Cine Industry. He is the son of the yesteryear Kannada actor Sudhir and brother of the famous director Nanda Kishore who also directs films in Kannada. He co-directed his first film Rambo in the year 2012 with the director M.S. Sreenath. While his first solo venture as a director was the film named Chowka released in the year 2017.

Chowka the film was a star-studded affair with start cast like Prajwal Devaraj, Prem Kumar, Prem Kumar to name a few. Tharun's recent release include films like Tiger and Raambo 2. His upcoming movie in 2019 is Robert starring Darshan in the lead role.

Yogish Dwarakish is an Indian film director who dominatingly works in the Kannada film industry. In 2014, he filled in as an official maker on the activity parody film Maanikya. He has additionally delivered the motion picture 'Niagara' dependent on Agatha Christie's epic, And Then There Were None. Yogish's 2017 discharges incorporate the motion pictures 'Chowka' coordinated by Tarun Sudhir and 'Awake' coordinated by K.M. Chaitanya. His 2018 discharge incorporates Amma I Love You. He received nominations for several awards including- Filmfare Award for Best Film – Kannada and IIFA Utsavam Award for Best Film - Kannada, which proves his directorial expertise.

Yogish's father Dwarakish, the leading Kannada producer, had a sudden cardiac arrest and died at his residence on 16th April ...

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