Kannada Movie Review Chakravyuha - Cast & Crew

Rachita ram is a Kannada film and TV actress who marked her presence in movies like ‘Rangeela and Ambareesha’.

She was born in Karnataka although has the ancestral background in Bhopal. Her mother was a bharat natyam dancer and so is she, a well trained dancer in this particular form of dance. She has also given around 50 live dance performances. 

This actress captured everyone’s attention through her performance in her very first movie ‘Bulbul’.

She rocked the screen in the Kannada soap opera ‘arasi’ that was very much liked by the audience and made Rachita ram, the favourite of thousands.

She opted to head towards the film industry only after working for quite a long time in television and commercials. According to her, working in television gave her confidence and boosted her spirit to work on greater projects.

Her first movie was released in the year 2013 and in mere 2.5 years she managed to create a place for herself in this industry.

The actress was nominated for the filmfare best actress category for the movie ‘bharjare’.

She is also all set to enter the tollywood with the release of ‘brahmotsavan’.

The actress is appreciated for her good looks, innocent character, adorable dimples and passion for acting simultaneously.

She is the sister of Nithya ram, who is as well a very well known face on the screen.

Currently Rachita has signed some other projects under big and small banners and is busy working.

She believes to pre plan and prepares herself to deal with any circumstance and adjust to any scenario and hence work on her character before getting started with the shoot.

Megha has a birth name of ‘Hirani Ramachandran’, born on 18th March 1987, who turned 28 this year. She is a Tamil playback singer singing predominantly in Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam and Kannada. She is also a co-founder of School of Excellence that offers NLP programs and models. She is the great-granddaughter of Papanasam Sivan, who was a Carnatic composer; daughter of S. Ramachandran and Gowri Ramachandran. She was born in Chennai but did most of her schooling from Bangalore. While doing masters, she persuaded signing in 2007 as she completed her grade 8 in western classical music from Trinity College, London. Her first debut performance in the south film industry was in film Naan Avanillai where she was introduced by Vijay Anthony; she has also worked with various music directors including A.R Rehman. But this is not the only point where she has limited her learning, she showed a great deal of interest in learning neuro-linguistic programming technique, and she learned it from John Grinder and Richard Bandler.

M Saravanan is a budding Director in the field of Cinema. Saravanan grew up in the district of Namakkal, Tamil Nadu. He started his career in Kollywood by stepping into the shoes of Assistant Director under the remarkable Director A.R. Murugadoss.

Rengarajan Jaiprakash was born on 30 October, 1974. His birthplace is Bangalore, India. His parents brought him up in a traditional Tamil household. In his childhood, he loved movies and always desired to be an integral part of filmmaking process.

Shanmuga Sundaram, is a sought after actor till date. He was born in Chennai in a family who is into business. His entry into the film industry was purely an accident.

When he was studying in college, he had accompanied one of his friends who is also an actor. In that particular shooting, one of the junior artists did not perform well. At that time, the director told Shanmuga Sundaram to try acting that role if he is interested. To the surprise of many, he had done that role with efficiency, which earned him appreciation spontaneously.  He also worked in Tamil theatre and then moving on to serials, he worked with a style that showed moderation rather than melodrama, something that was not very common among artists of his generation.

His voice is so unique that it is being imitated by all the mimicry artists in almost all functions, where mimicry is performed. Shanmuga Sundaram had the privilege of working with the legends like M.G.R and Sivaji Ganesan. He was one of the close friends of Kavignar Kannadasan.

Shanmuga Sunadaram’s role in the 1989 Tamil film, Karagattakaran was one of the movies, where his acting was well appreciated. His character in the serial like Annamalai, Selvi and its sequel, Arasi are some of his work with Raadhika Sarathkumar. He has worked with the renowned Indian filmmaker, Venkat Prabhu, son of Gangai Amaren who is a close relative of Shanmuga Sundaram. Because of his dedication in acting and his appearance as a man next door, Shanmuga Sundaram is a well known actor among the serial fans and has become a familiar face for all of them.

Chandan is a South Indian playback singer, rapper, lyricist, composer and music director. He is also known as Kannada Rapper Chandan Shetty. He was born on 17th September 1989 in Sakleshpur in the Hassan district of Karnataka. He has written lyrics for about 30 songs, sang more than 45 songs and worked as an assistant music director for about 40 Kannada movies.

Puneeth was born on 17th March 1975 in Madras, Tamilnadu. He entered the industry when he was six months old. Although he hails from Madras, he was brought up in Bengalaru. He left his studies in order to work in the cinema but later achieved a diploma in computer science privately. He has a family background where all his brothers, as well as his father, are involved in the same industry. As a child artist, Puneeth worked in movies like ‘Geetha and Bhagyavantha’. He was applauded for his performance as a child and received national film award for best child artist.

In 2002, Puneeth was seen playing the lead role for the first time in ‘Appu’. He received a national award for his movie ‘Butada hoovu’. Puneeth is trained in dancing, fighting and martial arts. He was involved in the mining business for a short span of time. Moreover, he was also engaged in the production of movies and TV serials. Puneeth loved his father, Dr Rajkumar a lot and therefore built a hotel in Bengalaru, as per his father’s wish. He also carried out philanthropic work in Shakti Dharma ashram, Mysore. Puneeth married Ashwini Revanth in December 1999 and has two daughters. He is an Italian designer wear freak and loves watching Spanish and Hollywood films. He admires Michael Jackson as a singer.

Puneeth Rajkumar was not only an actor but a producer, singer, and TV Presenter. He hosted Kannadada Kotyadhipati for the 1^st, 2^nd, and 4^th seasons. Puneeth was the brand ambassador of Nandini Milk Products of the Karnataka Milk Federation. He was also the ambassador of Royal Challengers Bangalore, the Karnataka team in the Indian Premier League. Besides the National Award as a child actor, he had received lots and lots of awards from the Karnataka State Government for his Best performances in Milana and Jackie, from SIIMA for Hudugaru, Yaare Koogadali, Rana Vikrama, and “Raajakumara” and from Filmfare South, he received the Best Actor award for the films, Arasu, Hudugaru, Rana Vikrama, and Raajakumara.

M Subarak is an Indian film editor, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Ainthu Ainthu Ainthu (2013), Valiyavan (2015), Chakravyuha (2016), etc. Mostly known for his major involvement in Kannada TV series, short films, and Sandalwood movies, Subarak has been involved in the film industry for more than ten years now. Starting off in the camera and electrical department, Subarak made his first notable contribution on the silver screen with the film Ainthu Ainthu Ainthu, directed by M Saravanan, starring Trisha Krishnan. Since then, Subarak has made a lot of progress as an editor and cinematographer and has been a part of various film projects.

Stunt Silva was born in Tuticorin, TamilNadu. He started his career as a male nurse after getting trained in Stanley Medical College. Silva worked as a Ward boy in Tuticorin hospital. Later he joined in Vijaya Health Center in Chennai by the year 1990. To maintain his family’s financial status, he worked in several sectors such as Peon in offices and dabbled in transport sector business offices. He then joined in the background dancer of the film under the guidance and advice of the Dance

Abhimanyu Singh is a popular Indian film and television actor who works extensively in the Bollywood industry. He was born in Patna, Bihar, India, and later moved to Delhi to attend college. He worked in some school dramas during college, until one day, he moved to Mumbai to pursue his acting career. The first two months of his stay in Mumbai was really tough for the actor, since he couldn’t get any decent roles and had to wait for the producers for long hours just to cast him in any good films. He took his chances and decided to do theatre. He joined the group, Ansh, headed by Makarand Deshpande, who became his acting guru. One day, he got a call from his co-actor, Manoj Bajpai, and told him that he will be casted in the Hindi supernatural thriller film, ‘Aks’, which stars Amitabh Bachchan in 2001. This film became his debut film as an actor.

Arun Kumar is the son of famous Tamil actor and politician Vijayakumar. He is also known by the name of Arun Vijay. He was born on November 19, 1977 in Chennai. He was born in a film family so it was not hard for him to make a way towards silver screen.

Vijayakumar Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

Rangayana Raghu was born on 30th November, 1963. He acts in Kannada film industry and his genre is comedy. Till date he has appeared over 100 films and most of them have been comic roles.

He began his career in theatre group by name Rangayana in Mysore, way back in 1988.  His initial salary was just Rs 800 per month. He was supposed to make his debut with 1995 film Suggi, which was directed by award winning director Hamsalekha. Unfortunately, Suggi was shelved and never released.

His first major release was 2002 film Dhumm, starring Kiccha Sudeep and Rakshita directed by M.S. Ramesh. He went to act in films like Ranga SSLC, Rakshasa, and many more. However his best films till date are 2007 film Duniya and 2013 film Director's Special.

Duniya showcased Raghu at his best. Overall Duniya bagged 4 Karnataka State Film awards in 2007, including Best Supporting Actor for Rangayana Raghu. Director’s Special is a Kannada satire comedy film, written and directed by Guruprasad. Along with debutant Dhananjay, Rangayana Raghu essays the role of lead Panche Shastry / Ramachandra. This movie really showed Rangayana Raghu’s theatrical background and what he can do in a film with his power packed performance which was a mix of comedy and sarcasm.

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. 

Kaviraj is a Kannada poet, lyricist, director and writer. He is currently one of the top-rated lyricists in the Karnataka Film Industry. He started his journey as a songwriter in 2003 and has written over 1000 songs for various movies. His debut film was Kariya which was released in 2003. Since 2013, he has also been working on becoming a writer and film director. Allegedly, he has penned a story similar to the Amitabh Bachchan starring Bollywood hit Paa. The film will be called Bul Bul Mathadkilva. He has won many awards and accreditations for his work like the Suvarna Film Awards, Filmfare Awards, South Indian International Movie Awards, Mirchi Music Awards South, etc. He has won the Filmfare and Mirchi Music three times each respectively.

Ghantasala Sai Srinivas Thaman Siva Kumar, also known as S.Thaman. He is an Indian film composer, who also works in Tamil and Telugu industry. He is famous for giving his best. He started his career in the film Boys. He then became famous for his passion towards music director. His debut film as music director for Tamil was Sindhanai Sei and for Telugu was Kick. S.Thaman was born on 16th November 1983 in Andhra Pradesh. He is the grandchild of Ghantasala Balaramaya, who is known for producing the Telugu film Seetarama Jananam. Thaman, a 28-year-old hails from a family of musicians from Pottepalam. His father Ghantasala Siva Kumar was a Drummer; mother Ghantasala Savitri is a playback singer and his aunt P.Vasantha is also singer. Thaman married Vardhini, who is a playback singer.

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