Kannada Movie Review Onthara Bannagalu - Cast & Crew

"Sangeeta Rabindranath is a Kannada playback singer. Enchanting people with her melodious voice, catching up attention of many and pumping their adrenaline with her highly energetic live performances, Sangeetha Ravindranath is a melodious singer, songwriter and a music composer hailing from Mysore who currently resides in Bangalore. She has given her voice and has sung for over 60 Kannada movies. Having worked with top class music directors like Hari Krishna, Arjun Janya, Ajneesh Loknath, Jassie Gift and Veer Samarth, she is believed to be innate talent. Evident from her performances, she has made her mark in the music industry in a short period. This talented singer saw many difficulties in her early life.

Supriya Lohith is an Indian playback singer who has captivated the audience with her mellifluous voice in soundtracks for more than fifty movies over the past decade. Her eloquence in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and Tulu has made her an eminent figure in the south Indian music industry. Born in Bangalore, Karnataka, she began singing on stage at local events from a tender age of six.

Hitha Chandrashekar is an actor. She was born in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and in India in the year 1987. She mainly works with the Tamil and Telugu Film Industry. She has Indian Nationality. She had associated with the film industry. She is an actor of versatile talent. She has worked with several artists. She works with the actors with versatile performance. She did multiple movie projects. Her father name is Sihi Kahi Chandru. Her mother name is Sihi Kahi Geetha. She is active in the film industry in the year 2017. She also works with the Kannada Cinema Industry. She did a course in acting with the Roshan Taneja School of acting. The school is in Mumbai, Maharastra, and in India. Her parents are also an actor. She has a younger sibling as a sister. Her name is Kushi Chandrashekar. Hitha's spouse name is Kiran Srinivas.

Manohar Joshi is a photographer-turned-cinematographer. During his college days, Manohar was a photography enthusiast who used to compete in several photography competitions, often winning a lot of prizes. In 2007, his friend convinced him to do the cinematography of a new documentary. Manohar’s confidence in himself and his work increased, when he realized that the work turned out very well. This was the incident that led him to choose cinematography as a career option after college. His first film was titled ‘Nan Life Alli’.

Abhinandan Mahishale is a young talented playback singer of the Kannada film industry. He has recorded songs for various labels such as Lahari Music and Divo TV Private Limited. He has sung songs in movies like Chamak, Operation Alamelamma, and Onthara Bannagalu. The top songs of Abhinandan include “Kush Kush,” ”Nee Nanna Olavu,” ”Turning Point.”

B J Bharath earned his fame from the Kannada film industry. He is a film composer and a musician. He made his debut as a film composer in the year 2013 in a Kannada film ‘Simple Aagi Ondu Love Story.’ The film did a business of about 100 million and stayed in limelight for quite a long time. The 2013 hit movie ‘Simple Agi Ondh Love story’ won multiple awards making Bharath one of the most sought after composers of Kannada Cinema. Bharath was interested in singing from a very young age and his parents were encouraging enough to train me further. He learnt Carnatic and classical music from Sarvamangala Shankar and Hindustan Parameshwar Hegde.

Born on 3rd October 1997, Sanjith Hegde is an Indian playback singer. Hegde belongs to “Kannadiga” family in Bangalore and he finished his college studies from CMR National PU College situated in Bangalore. Then he went on to complete his engineering from JSS Academy of Technical Education, Bangalore.

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.

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.

Kiran Srinivs is an Indian actor and model. He was born in Banglore, Karnataka, India. He took his education from Banglore only. He joined theatre during his college days. Now he is living in Mumbai. He made his debut through a Kannada film “Haage Summane” in 2008. It was directed by Preetham Gubbi. Kiran shared the screen with Suhasi Dhami, Pooja Gandhi, Chandrashekhar, Sharath Babu, etc. He played the lead role of “Preetham” with ease. It was dubbed into Telugu as Manasu Pilichindi. He also acted in a short film “What's on Your Mind” in 2013. It was written and directed by Kallol Sen. He played the role of Micky in the movie. He is portraying a role where he wasted his life in wine and women and he found himself in a dangerous situation, where he has to deliver the drug consignment outside the country. He shared the screen with Suraj Ballikar, G.K. Desai, Rashmi Jha, Raiya Sinha, etc. He also acted for the Kannada serial “Kanasina Kanmani”.

Kiran played a negative role in the Colors path-breaking show “24” in 2013. This show was based on the American series of the same name. It was produced by Anil Kapoor Films. Anil Kapoor played the lead role in the show and Kiran played the role of Dev. It was a popular show. He had played the negative role as “Roy” in “Panch” which is the Sunshine Production telecasted on Channel V. The story is about a girl Roshni who wants to take the revenge from her seniors because they killed her sister. He also acted few episodes of the famous reality show “Gumraah” which is also aired on Channel V. Soon he will be seen in a lead role of Star Plus serial “The Mall”. It will be a love triangle. Kiran has also worked in few brand advertisements.

The two times national award winning actor for supporting roles Dattanna alias HG Dattatreya was working in Air Force, but was interested in acting. He is one of the actors, who are highly qualified and also held a position as a principal in the management academy of HAL. Acting was his passion and so, he continued to do films regardless of awards. Although awards are definitely an encouragement for the actor, but to continue his journey in over 90 films that spanned over 26 years is indeed a remarkable feat. Although he chose to take up supporting actor role or even in character roles, he is known for his versatile performances in Kannada film industry. 

In many Kannada films, the central plot revolved around him, therefore, giving a greater satisfaction to this actor, who had underplayed his role as per the script always. HG Dattatreya had excelled in many movies, especially in Munnudi (2000) and Bharath Stores (2012) that fetched him a national award. For his effortless and natural performance of a small time grocery retailer in Kannada film Bharath Store, he was given a special jury award. Most of the actors in the tinsel town are not comfortable doing minor roles, but this actor has no qualms about it. He also impressed the Telugu audience with his performance in Thila Danam. His acting wooed audiences with brilliant performance in Kempe Gowda (2011). Many would have raised eyebrows at the decision of Dattanna to move towards tinsel town, but so far, he received applauds for his acting in many films. Known for his magnificent acting prowess in Kannada cinema, he has bagged many State film awards too and won an International award. In the years that followed after his journey from theater to Kannada screen, the actor has carved a niche for himself. 

Besides grabbing the National Awards twice in 2003 and 2012, Dattareya had received the Best Actor Award in International Film Festival in Fiji in 2013. Dattareya’s performance in Neer Dose with “Jaggesh,” "Haripriya" and Suman Ranganathan is unforgettable. In 2017, he played in Srinivasa Kalyana, “Jilebi,” a comedy horror thriller, Prathima, “Raajakumara,” Tab, Kempirve and Hombanna. In 2018, he played in more than half a dozen films including a web series titled Joshelay. 2019 started with success for Dattareya through Jaggesh movie Premier Padmini. He played in the high budgeted multi-starrer Bollywood film, Mission Mangal with Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Taapsee Pannu, Nithya Menen and Sonakshi Sinha, directed by Jagan Shakti.

Thanks to his underrated yet extremely sincere performances in half a dozen films. To sum up his acting ability, he had given strong proof of his acting talents holding his own against the biggest banners of Kannada cinema.

Praveen Pugalia is an actor who works in the Kannada movie industry. Praveen started out as a fitness model. He is known for his gym routines and has appeared in many commercials and infomercials about body-building.

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. 

Suchendra Prasad, the name very common to the theater world is an accomplished actor, the acclaimed director, choreographed, and has given music for films, television, and radio. He has written as well directed several plays. Also known as Sachindra or K suchendra Prasad, he owns a very creative intellect and the subjects of his plays reflect that brilliant perspective. He refines his subjects with the ingredients of his imagination and experiences and engages them as a vessel to fathom the deepest nooks of mental faculty and is able to convey feelings, thoughts, and interpretations to the diverse circle of spectators. He was born in 1973(Age 44) in Karnataka and has higher educational qualifications M.A. & LLB. He is well versed in several languages – English, Hindi, and Kannada. For him, language never became a barrier in his way of learning several art forms of different regions.

Tennis Krishna was born on 15th November 1949 near the Bangalore district of Karnataka. His peculiar surname- ‘Tennis’ was attributed to him since before he became an actor, Krishna was a professional Tennis coach, teaching amateurs and schoolchildren, the basics of Tennis. As there were a lot of actors in the Kannada film industry under the name ‘Krishna’, production controllers and filmmakers began referring to him as Tennis Krishna and hence, the name stuck and it gave him such an amount of exposure that he chose Tennis as his official surname to refer to himself in the film industry. Krishna was always passionate about his acting, and his interests are evident from the fact that he was a dedicated performer in various dramas, troupes, and theaters.

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