Kannada Movie Review Pailwaan - Cast & Crew

Swapna S Krishna is a Kannada television actress and film producer. She is the wife of Kannada cinematographer and director S Krishna. The names of her daughters are Riya Krishna and Ritu Krishna. The name of her son is Raghav Krishna. Swapna Krishna is primarily known for her ads on Kannada television. She has directed over 2000 episodes of various soap operas' shows under the banner of RRR Creations, notable among which are Gruha Lakshmi, Ganga, and Subbalakshmi Samsara. She is an actress, director, and producer. Swapna produced Pailwaan under their banner RRR Motion Pictures (named after their three children). Devaraj, Krishna's brother, took care of all the dealings of RRR. The vision of the banner is to bring good content to Kannada cinema. After Pailwaan, in 2019 that stars Kichcha Sudeep in the lead, Swapna S Krishna produced Krishna, which will be released in 2022.

Aakanksha Singh is an Indian Television actress and a Model. She was born on July 30, 1990, in Jaipur, Rajasthan. She is well known for her performances in the television series “Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha” and “Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha part 2”. She has experience of working in Theatre shows and she performed more than 10 plays because her mother is also a theatre artist.

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'.

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.

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.

Shiva Rajkumar is the populous Kannada actor, who was born in the year 1962. He is the son of the veteran Kannada actor Raj Kumar. Shiva Raj Kumar was born in Chennai and he is the eldest one in the family. Raghavendra Rajkumar and Puneeth Rajkumar are his younger brothers and he has two sisters too. He did his graduation in chemistry in Chennai, New College. After completing his graduation, he joined M. G. R. Film and Television Training Institute to learn acting. He is also a Kuchipudi dancer. He made his debut through the movie Anand in Kannada. This movie released in the year 1986 and Shiva got a good name in that movie. He is celebrating his silver jubilee in the film industry. 

The movie OM directed by Upendra earned him lots of fans in his career. He was also a part in the movie Sugreeva, which is one among the fastest shot movies in the Indian cinema history. This movie was shot within 18 hours. Shiva Rajkumar has acted in more than 100 movies. His latest movies are Santa Kabeera and Badshah. Some of his career best movies are Anand, Inspector Vikram, Mruthyunjaya, Purushothama, Chirabhandavya, Ananda Jyoti, Om, Dore, A. K. 47, Andaman, Hrudaya Hrudaya, Asura, Jodi, Don, Smile, Rishi, Ashoka, Sathya in Love and Shiva. The movie ‘Killing Veerappan’ of Shiva Raj Kumar is set for the release on the birthday of Raj Kumar. Shiva has bagged many awards for his acting talent. He has won four times the award for the Best Actor from Karnataka State Government. He has also lined the shields from the Filmfare too. He was also awarded by SIIMA Awards for his Social Responsibility. 

Shiva Rajkumar is married to Geeta, the daughter of the popular politician and Karnataka ex chief minister Bangarappa. This couple is blessed with two cute daughters Nivedhitha and Nirupama.

Pradyumna Narahalli is an Indian actor, RJ, director, producer, and writer. He was born on April 10, 1988, in Hasan, Karnataka. He graduated in mechanical engineering from the MS Ramya Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Narahalli was introduced to theater at an early age, and he had a great interest in and confidence to participate in annual day competitions. He started doing mimicry in college. In 2009, he led the cultural team at MSRIT and wanted the VTU cultural festival. He was also awarded the best outgoing student from the mechanical department.

Kadur Raghu is a prominent still photographer in the Kannada film industry, known as Sandalwood. Kadur Raghu has a brother named Kadur Yogi. He is married and also has a son. Kadur Raghu has worked in various Kannada films in the camera department, like Karataka Damanaka,  Devil, Kaatera, Love Birds (2023), Upadhyaksha (2024), Baadshah Pehlwaan (2019), which was released in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam Language, The Terrorist (2018), Dodmane Huduga (2016) and Vaastu Prakaara (2015).

Mohan Raj is an Indian news presenter, and his hometown is Chennai. He completed his schooling at DonBosco Higher Secondary School and then studied Electronics and Communication Engineering at Bharath Engineering College. Mohan Raj worked as a news reader on Sun TV. He has worked as a news reader in Sun TV and other language channels like Jaya TV, Polymer, and Raj TV. He has five years of work experience at Sun TV and twenty years at Jaya TV. Currently, he is also doing socially conscious work by getting recruited as Tamil Nadu Police Traffic Warden which is not an all-day, year-round job.

Ramajogayya Sastry was born on August 24, 1970 in the small village called Arepalli Muppalla, Ipur Mandal which is near Narasaraopet of Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh to parents Suryaprakasa Rao and Saraswatamma in an agricultural family. His father was a priest and an agriculturist by profession. His mother is a home-maker. He was the only child of his parents. He is a Computer Science Engineer who persuaded his B.Tech from NIT Warangal and his Master’s degree in M.Tech at IIT Kharagpur.

V Nagendra Prasad is a lyricist, music director, director and an actor in the Kannada film industry. He was born on 3rd December 1975 to ‘MV Venkata Ramanappa’ and ‘Chandramma’ in Nagamangala, Karnataka. Prasad completed his schooling in Bangalore. Being passionate about literature, he chose Kannada literature in his under graduation course. To pursue his post graduation, he moved to Mysore. Nagendra is interested in writing poems from his young age. His career in cinema started as a lyric writer in 2000. His first film is “Gajina Mane”, directed by ‘KV Jayaram’. “Hamsalekha” composed the tunes for the lyrics of Nagendra. He developed his knowledge in cinema gradually. Prasad has penned the lyrics for more than thousand songs.

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.

Tapas Nayak is a well-known sound designer of India. He was born on 12-12-1950. He is famous in both Bollywood and Tollywood for his great work. He started his career in the year 2000, and he completed his 18 years in the industry.

Doddalahalli Kempegowda Shivakumar was born on 15th May 1962 in Kanakapura, Karnataka. His father is Kempegowda. Shivakumar is a politician and belongs to the Indian National Congress. He was the Irrigation Minister in HD Kumaraswamy cabinet. During the Siddaramaiah reign, he had been the Minister of Energy. Shivakumar is famous for defeating HD Devegowda, Kumaraswamy and Anitha Kumaraswamy in Kanakapura constituency. Shivakumar is considered as the wealthiest politician in Karnataka. During the election nomination in 2016, he filed that he has total assets worth Rs 600 crore. In the next couple of years, it increased by Rs 240 crores. He declared that he has Rs 840 crores worth holdings in the 2018 elections. In the 2018 election, when there was a situation to form the coalition government, Shivakumar played a significant role in setting up the government. Shivakumar has a close relationship with the Congress leaders, Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. Shivakumar is married to Usha. They tied the knots in 1993 and have three children. Shivakumar’s daughters are Aishwarya and Aabharana and his son is Aakash. Shivakumar’s brother DK Suresh is also a politician. He is an MP from Bangalore rural constituency. Shivakumar had struck with a few controversies, including the Income Tax evasion, illegal mining case and Shanthi Nagar Housing Society Scam. But, Shivakumar was given a clean chit in Shanthi Nagar Housing Society Scam as there was no evidence. Shivakumar alleged that the complaints against him are baseless. 

Ganesh Acharya is an Indian choreographer, who is mainly seen in Hindi films. His father Gopi was also a choreographer in Bollywood. When Ganesh Acharya was ten years old, his father died. His sister was at Cuttack and he went there and learnt basic dance from his sister. Later, he joined as an assistant to Kamalji, the famous choreographer. At the young age of 12, he started his own dance troupe. Anaam was his first film as a choreographer. It was released in 1992 and Ganesh Acharya was 21 years, when he became a choreographer for films.

Raju Sundaram is an Indian choreographer, actor, and director. Raju was born on 7th March 1968. His father Mugur Sundar is a prominent choreographer. Raju is the eldest among the three brothers; all the three brothers are choreographers. One is the famous Prabhu Deva and other is Nagendra Prasad. He is married and his wife name is Vasanthi. In his youth he was forcefully taken to film sets by his father to assist him. Raju invented interest in films and choreography after that. Raju started his career being a dancer in films like ‘Roja’, ‘Aasai’ and playing cameo appearances in songs with his brother Prabhu Deva in the films ‘Gentleman’, ‘Kadhalan’.

Yogi G Raj is a Director. He was born in India. He was born on June 11. He predominantly works with the Kannada Film Industry. He has Indian Nationality. He had appeared in the film industry various times. He is an actor of versatile talent. He has worked with several artists. Yogi did multiple projects in line and made the audience entertain. Yogi did KGF in the year 2018. The release date of this is December 12 and in the year 2018. Its run time is two hours and 50 minutes. It has the genre action, and romance. Cast includes for this is Malavika Avinash, Mita Vashisht, Yash, Srinidhi Shetty, Ninasam Ashwath, S Kumar, Prashanth Neel, Vijay Kiragandur, Ravi Basrur, Bhuwan Gowda, Yogi G Raj, Ananth Nag, Ananya Bhat, Vijay URS, Beesu Suresh, Ayyapa P Sharma, Vinay Bidappa and many more.

Dhananjay Prajapati is a renowned makeup artist and prosthetic designer from Mumbai, India. He has worked with S&A Films & OMG Entertainment for a long time and has been involved in most of the ad commercials. He has also worked on several movie projects including Mumbai Meri Jaan, Echoes, Harud, Bhootnath Returns, Rocky Handsome, Madaari, and Gurgaon. Dhananjay Prajapati is the head of the makeup department and is known for his exceptional work in movies like Dhoom2 (2006), Laal Kaptan (2019), and Judgementall Hai Kya (2019). In Dhoom2, he helped create Hrithik Roshan’s chiseled looks and multiple getups, which were the center of attraction throughout the movie. He also gave Kangana Ranaut her edgy and bold looks in Judgemental Hai Kya.

Sudheera Venkatesh is an Indian Film public relations officer. He commenced his journey in the year 1985. Having done 1200+ films, Sudheera boasts 35 years of experience as a Public Relations Officer, mirroring all his successes. He is the founder of Raghvendra Chitravani. The all-time best movies, “Mungaru Male” and “Dhuniya” got him recognition for his work. He is continuing Sri Raghavendra Chitravani’s legacy. A few big names such as “Hombale films”; “Rockline Productions”; “Pushkar Films”; “And SV Productions” are permanent clients. With Fluency in 5 Indian languages, Sudheera Venkatesh has worked on assignments beyond Karnataka in his era. His noble works were awarded, the Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Kempe Gowda award, Nagara Jilla Kannada Sahitya Prashasthi, and many more. It is an honor to know about such a multi-talented personality.

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;

Arun Seenu is a well-known audiographer. He is famously known for his workings in movies such as Soorarai Pottru (2019) directed by Sudha Kongara; the film was inspired by events from the life of G R Gopinath, founder of Indian low-cost airline Simplify Deccan. Seenu has also worked in movies such as Action Hero Biju (2016) an Indian Malayalam- language police procedural comedy film directed by Abrid Shine and Super Deluxe (2019) an Indian Tamil-language film co-written, co-produced and directed by Thiagarajan Kumararaja. Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s Super Deluxe has won a lot of love and appreciation from the audiences. The film has created an offbeat and unpredictable. One of the major contributors to this movie is the work done by the film’s sound department.

Mr. Siddhartha Jayakar known as Sid Jayakar is an Editor, Animation Director, and Visual Effects Supervisor. Mr. Jayakar was born on 4th May 1980 in Bombay, India. His father is Mr. Mohan Jaykar and his mother Mrs. Smita Jaykar is an Indian actress. Mr. Jaykar has a sister Masumah Jaykar. Mr. Jayakar is an entrepreneur and filmmaker. In June 2008, he co-founded Labyrinth Cinematic Solutions in Mumbai, Maharashtra and is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company. Mr. Jayakar has worked as an Editor for the television series Showbiz India, Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Ghosted (2023) and TRON: Legacy (2010). He worked as an animator for the show Showbiz India Xtreme. He has also worked as an assistant director for the romantic drama movie Devdas, released in 2002. Mr. Jayakar is well known for working as a digital compositor for television series and movies.

B S Avinash, also known as Avinash Yelandur, is an Indian film actor. He was born on 29 August 1974 in Karnataka, India. After completing his school education in Karnataka, he attended and graduated from the University of Mysore. Avinash's father was a businessman. He has a sister named Anu. His wife's name is Geetha, and he has a son with her, Akul. He joined his late father's business earlier. He attended several workshops on acting and building confidence before auditioning for films. He played the role of Andrew in the movie KGF Chapter 1 in 2018. The movie was a box office hit globally. Then, he appeared in its sequel- KGF Chapter 2 in 2022. Avinash is a fitness enthusiast and ran in the Mysore Dasara Celebration Marathon in 2012.

Kabir Duhan Singh is a famous Indian actor and a model. He was born in Faridabad in Haryana. He has done many films in different languages such as Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu. His debut movie was ‘Jil’ which was in the Telugu language and it was released in the year 2015. Now, Kabir has made his career in the South Indian films as an Antagonist. To make his career in the Film Industry, Kabir moved to Mumbai in the year of 2011. He initiated his career with Modelling. He worked on many Fashion Week assignments, and he made an attempt in Bollywood movie starring actor Shiney Ahuja.

Sushant Singh is an Indian film actor and a host of television shows. He was born in Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh, India on 9 March 1972. He mentioned in an interview that he was not a very cool guy during his college times. He did his schooling from Nainital from Birla Vidya Mandir. He was passionate about being an actor since his childhood, and so he joined Ebrahim Alkazi Living Theatre Academy in 1992. He participated in a few plays there like Greek Tragedy and Death of a Salesman. He entered Bollywood in 1998 in the movie called Satya directed by Ram Gopal Varma.