Kannada Movie Review Kariya 2 - Cast & Crew

Anuradha Bhat is a playback singer. She was born on 23rd of July in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. She was the daughter of Mrs. Gayathri Srikrishna, and Mr. Srikrishna Bhat. Her parents loved music. She has a sister, Anupama Bhat. She is a famous TV actor cum anchor. Coming to her studies, she completed her education from St Ann’s Girls High School, and Carmel English School.

She did her college from Canara College and joined MSNM Institute of PG Studies. She did MBA and B. Sc. Then, she placed in a renowned company in Bengaluru. However, she quit the job of MNC and tried to work on her music. She builds her knowledge on music. Apart from this, she had to train from Mrs. Kamala on Bharatanatyam. She did the course completely. She had training in singing, the vocal improvement from Late M Srinath Marathe.

In her chil...

Mayuri catapulted to fame with her debut role in the famous serial Ashwini Nakshatra.In the serial she played the role of a beautician and she crosses the path of a super star played by Jayram Karthik.  The stars of the show became famous overnight and Mayuri is no exception as she played the lead role of Ashwini in the serial.

The pretty actress is from Hubli and she got her break when she auditioned for a reality show in Dharwad. He actress who is a talented dancer was forced by her friends to audition for the show and hence got selected. She took part in the reality show SYE for five episodes before quitting pursuing her further studies. During the course of her studies she anchored a few shows as it gave her an opportunity to be independent.

After completing her graduation in commerce she was approached by the ...

Prabhu Srinivas is a renowned Indian film director, screenplay, writer who mostly worked in the Kannada movie industry. He did a Masters of Arts from Central College in Bengaluru. In 1981, he graduated from the National School of Drama. He has directed popular movies like Kariya 2 (2017), Daali (2020), Ganapa (2015), Jeeva (2014), Parijatha (). In 2009, he started of with Prajwal Devaraj- Ruthuva.

The movie was based on a true incident. Dalai is a drama movie, starring Dhananjay and Baburaj. The film is about the life of Daali. He faces many twists and turns, that turned him away from the path of villain that he used to be. He directed Kariya 2, starring Santhosh Balaraj, Mayuri Kyatari, Sadhu Kokila. It was an action, crime, drama film. The movie is about a small local goon, Kariya, who is employed by an underworld don.

Srinivas Devamsam, also known as D Srinivas, is a South Indian Cinematographer born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. His love and passion for cinematography grew from childhood, and he began his career as an assistant cinematographer at a young age. P. C. Sreeram, India's most skilled cinematographer, assisted him. The first film of his career was Pandhayam(2008), directed by S.A. Chandrasekhar and starring Sindhu Tolani and Nithin Sathya. Srinivas directed the action thriller- Kariya 2(2017), a sequel to the film Kariya, starring Mayuri Kyatari and Santhosh Balaraj as the lead actors. Another movie he shot was 2020 Maayanadhi. He has also worked on documentaries and Ad films. Srinivas has a keen interest in Tamil literature and fiction.

Karan B Krupa is a music director who works predominantly in Kannada movies. He hails from Chennai and has graduated from the University of Madras. Karan debuted as a music director in the year 2015 with the movie called Ganapa which is a story about an incident that took place in Bengaluru. He composed music for the film named Kariya 2 which was directed by Prabhu Srinivas and released in the year 2017.

He has also composed music for the movie called Abhisaarike, a rom-com which released in the year 2018 starring Yash Shetty, Sonal Monteiro, Girish Shivanna, Tej Gowda, Rachana Dashrath, etc.

Jayanth Gourish Kaikini is an Indian Lyricist, Story Teller and Poet working in Kannada Cinema and Kannada Literature. Jayanth was born on the 24th of January 1955 in Gokarna, Uttara Kannada, Karnataka State, India. Jayanth was born to Gourish Kaikini, a Kannada litterateur and Shanta, a school teacher, and a social worker. After a masters in Biochemistry which he attained from Karnataka University, Dharwad, Kaikini moved to Mumbai where he was working as a Chemist. He is now living in Bangalore with his wife and two children. Jayanth is regarded as one of the most prominent writers in Kannada today. He writes film scripts, poetry, and short stories.

So far Jayanth has published four books of poetry, three plays, six anthologies of short stories and a collection of essays. Dr. Kaikini started writing film songs with Chigurida K...

MANJU MANDAVYA is a Kannada Screenwriter, director and actor.Manju who has recently directed a movie MASTERPIECE (released in December 2015 ) ,is a well know writer in kannad movies. Manju had written a lot of kannad movies and had actively directed his debut kannad movie.Manju Mandavya is considered a renowned script and dialogue writer in Sandalwood.

Manju was not professionally an actor but he had acted in one of the movie for his dearest friend,Yash in RAJAHULI. He had also written the dialouges of the movie,Rajahuli. Manju Mandavya is connected with many Kannada movies as a writer. He is best known for his legendary Kannada movies like,Saavari 2, Rangan Style, Rajahuli and Mandahasa. Manju Mandavya has written many more movies . Few in the list are : 2016 - Nan...

On 22 July, 1995, Armaan Malik was born in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a playback singer by profession. Armaan belongs to a music family. His father, Daboo Malik, is also a singer and music director. The singer is the nephew of the famous Hindi music director, Anu Malik. Armaan has a brother, Amaal Malik, who is also a music director.

He is a student of Qadir Ghulam Mustafa Khan Sahab and Mrs. Rita Kaul, who have been training him for the past ten years. At a very young age, Armaan started his music career by participating in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs. It was a music reality show. He was a finalist and stood eight in the show.

Earlier, the singer was with Universal Music India, but now works under the banner of T-Series for his singles. The singer started singing fr...

Shashank Sheshagiri is a Kanada singer, music composer, and music director. He has sung in many popular movies like Randhawa (2019), Avane Srimannarayana, Padde Huli and others.

Shashank was awarded the Mirchi Music Award, Kannada, in 2014, grabbing the title of the Best Upcoming Male Vocalist of the year.

His latest songs are Hands up, Shivanandi, Bharjari Soundu, and Jaggu Duniya. He is passionate about music. For his thousands of fans, he often does live performances and shows for the public. He has sung more than 1000 songs for South Indian films.

Recently on 26th April 2020, his second movie as a music director ‘The checkmate’, has released its music, the first being Randhawa released in 2019.

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...

Srikanth Gowda is an Indian Editor who predominantly works in the Kannada cinema industry. He was born on March 5, 1979 in Channapatna in Karnataka and currently lives in Bangalore. He started working with Balaji telefilms. Srikanth worked in many popular television serials such as Kumkuma Bhagya and Maneyodhu Morru Bhagilu. He is also a producer who own Srikanth Productions Company in which he produced television serials such as Katakateya Kathegalu aired on Zee Kannada.

He also won the best editor Award by Karnataka state government for Ugramm in 2014. He also produced the Tulu movie named as Maripu, which won the best feature film in Tulu and also got an award at 64th National Film awards. Srikanth’s other films are Silicon City, Manasu Malligey, Rathawara and Onthara Bennagalu.

Srikanth Gowda has recently rele...

Mass Madha is one of the prominent stunt directors in Kannada movie industry. Apart from being the stunt director, he has also played the supporting actor in various movies. He made his debut as a stunt director in the film ‘Simhadri’ in 2014. As a stunt director, he has worked in numerous films such as ‘Jyothi Allias Kothi Raja’ in 2014, ‘D.K.’ in 2015, ‘Paatargitthi’ in 2015, ‘Mythili & Co’ in 2015, ‘Neene Bari Neene’ in 2015, etc. He has worked with people such as ‘Chitram Basha,’ ‘Sanul Rathi,’ ‘K Veeru,’ ‘Ashwin Krishna’, etc. He has worked as a supporting actor in the movie Darling in 2014.

Madha has worked with some of the renowned personalities like ‘Randeep Hooda,’ &lsqu...

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...

Santosh Balaraj is an Indian movie actor who has worked in several Kannadian movies. He made his debut in the year 2015 in the movie Ganapa. The movie was directed by Prabhu Srinivas. It was written by Chinmay and Jayanth Kaikini. The cast of the film includes Priyanka Thimmesh, Tarun, Master Kalyan, Tumkur Mohan, Petrol Prasanna, Manjunath Gouda, Nishanth, and Padmaraja Rao. Santosh was seen in and as Ganapa playing the lead role.

In 2017 he appeared as Kariya in the movie Kariya 2. The movie was directed by Prabhu Srinivas. It was released on 13th October 2017. The action-thriller received a good response from the audience and the critics. The cast of the film includes Ajay Gosh as Gobbara Sena, Sadhu Kokkila as Pappu, and Mayuri Kyatari as Janaki.

Ajay Gosh is an Indian actor who works in the Telugu and Tamil Film Industries. The actor is termed as the gifted villain for both Tollywood and the Tamil Film Industry. With his stout body and ferocious looks, he gave a spellbinding performance in one Tamil and one Telugu movie. Though he just appeared in two films, the audience from both the states received him well. He had a very attractive physique that suits the role of a villain. In both the films he worked, he did the negative characters. In the Tamil Film Industry, Ajay Ghosh made a decent entry. He gave a luminous performance as a sadistic police officer in ‘Visaaranai’.

It is not an easy task to portray a police officer in the negative character and convince the audience. But the National Award Winning director Vetrimaaran did it to the be...

Prabhakar is an Indian actor who has done villain roles mostly with Telugu films. He became popular for his portrayal in the historical film, Magadheera. Prabhakar also played the role of Baireddy in S. S. Rajamouli’s comedy thriller film, Maryada Ramanna in 2010. He was also seen in films like Aagadu, Dookudu, Dongaata and now, he is playing a pivotal role in another S. S. Rajamouli’s biggest film, Baahubali. He played the role of the war lord, Kalakeya in the historical and epic film.

Prabhakar started his acting career unexpectedly. He went to Hyderabad to pursue a career as a police but he was unable to make it. One day, he watched the shooting of the film, Athidi with his friends and he was selected to do a small role. Subsequently, he auditioned to Rajamouli’s Magadheera and was luckily selected. The dir...

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 m...

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