Kannada Movie Review Santhu Straight Forward - Cast & Crew

Radhika Pandit another example of a home grown actress making it big in Kannada television and film industry. The pretty actress was born on March 7th 1984 in Bangalore. She has completed her education from Mount Carmel College.

Mahesh Rao was born on 14th February 1982 in Bangalore Karnataka, India. He is an Indian Kannada film director, screenwriter, and lyricist. Mahesh preferably works for the Kannada film industry. He did his schooling from St. Joseph's High School Bangalore. He completed his graduation from PES College at Bangalore. He started building up his career from his school days by joining the drama classes. He dramatized in various dramas like C.R Simha’s Vedika and Snehasaamooham, Nataranga, Samudhaya, and lot more.

Born in a Kannada family, K. Manju is a well-known Kannada film producer in the South industry. Manju was born in Mayasandra village in Karnataka. His childhood was filled with a lot of obstacles, and he had to juggle a lot to reach this platform of producing movies. Manju’s father worked hard to sell coconuts, and his mother worked as a servant in a hospital named NIMHANS.

A film is liked by the audience if it is accomplished with all the aspects like direction, star cast, acting, and cinematography. It is not mandatorily the star cast that brings the success, picturization and cinematography have an equal contribution. Although the contribution is usually ignored by the general viewers they have an immense role in bringing the perfect frame to us. I Andrew is one such talented cinematographer who has been exceptionally impressive. He makes the maximum and effective use of artificial intelligence and believes that it is the AI that will be changing dimensions in the future.

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. 

Kenja Chethan Kumar is a young director of Kannada movies. He is famous for his film “Prema Geema Jane Do,” which was released in 2016. He was born in the small village of Udupi, Karnataka, India. He is not only a director but also an editor, screenwriter, and video editor. He became interested in plays when he discovered that his grandfather was a playwright and director. When he was 12 years old, he wrote his first play. He completed his education at Besant Evening College, Mangalore. After completing college, he moved to Bangalore to pursue his career in film direction. He was inspired by Kannada actor Upendra and the Bollywood director Rajkumar Hirani.

Ghouse Peer is a professional Indian film Lyricist and Director. He works preferably for the Kannada movie industry. Peer has joined hands in some popular movies like Naduve Antaravirali, Krishnan S/O CM. His previous film, which made the hit was Naduve Antaravirali in the year 2018. He began his career in the year 2013, with the film I Am in Love, which was of the romance genre and has been released on 9th august of that year. Then in the year 2015, he made his debut in his directorial movie Sharpshooter, which was released on 11th December. In the same year, Masterpiece was another film which was released on 24th December 2015.

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 back. He has written lyrics for more than 100 super hit songs for the films such as Gaalipata, Jackie, Junglee, Hudugaru, Paramathma, Pancharangi, Chingari, Super, Anna Bond, Crazy Loka, Shiva, Lifeu Ishtene, Johny Mera Naam, Victory and many more. He is so versatile that he can write a song like Mungaru Maleye and a fast one like Hale Paathre, showing his range of lyrical talent.

Bhat was inspired by classics like Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Akira Kurosawa's Ran and came to Bangalore at 22, to become a cameraman. As a newcomer, he served as an assistant to Girish Kasaravalli, Sunil Kumar Desai and many others. He was more thrilled about watching film making at close quarters than working with big names.

Bhat directed a TV serial, before making his first film. But it took him 8 years, before a producer could back him independently. His first movie was Mani and that showed memorable performances by Rangayana Raghu and veteran actress Umashree, both won State awards for their roles in the movie. Then he directed Ranga SSLC (2004) starring Sudeep and Ramya in the leading roles, however it did not do very well.

His next film after a long break Mungaaru Male became the biggest hit in South India, creating a record and followed by another hit, Gaalipata. He also acted in the film Dyavre for one of his assistants, which started his acting career.

Ranjith is a very famous and versatile south Indian singer. He has a vibrant personality and can make the crowd tap their feet with his energetic songs, can make them emotional with his soothing voice and is a mass entertainer. He was born on February 21, 1977. He is a very well-known playback singer and has worked for many films. He is mainly working for the Karnataka, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam film industries. Ranjith was born in a Malayali family, in Chennai. His family belongs to a small town, Kalluvazhi, Kerala. Ranjith grew up listening to various types of music he stayed in a society where social-programmes were a trend. The localities used to participate in these programmes. Once, a family friend suggested training Ranjith for classical music.

Santhosh Venky is an Indian playback singer who has worked in various Tamil and Kannadian movies and albums. He was born in Bangalore, India. Santhosh Venky started his career in the year 2011 in the film Krishnan Marriage Story. He has been felicitated with several awards such as Karnataka State Film Award in 2015 for Sundarangiye of the film Preethiyalli Sahaja, Filmfare award in 2015 for Raja Raniyanthe of Rhaatee, SIIMA awards in 2015 for Raja Raniyanthe of Rhaatee, Mirchi Awards for Raja Raniyanthe in 2015, and SIIMA awards in 2018 for Salaam Rocky bha of KGF Chapter 1.

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 label owned by Gulshan Kumar, his first break came in 1990 when he did playback singing in the movie called Janam. In 1995 he started hosting the popular musical TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, after which he delivered the famous single Acha Sila Diya Tune for the film Bewafa Sanam. Some of his famous tracks are Sandese Aate Hai from the movie Border (1997), Ye Dil Deewana from the movie Pardes (1997). In 1999 he released his debut album Deewana, he also sang the title track for the movie Kal Ho Na Ho. As an individual composer he has worked on movies like Singh Saab The Great, Sooper Se Ooper and Jal. Nigam has contributed in Britney Spears track I Wanna Go, and has also released a track in the album The Beat of Our Hearts as a tribute to Michael Jacskon. In his small acting career he has acted in films like Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahaani, Love In Nepal and Kaash Aap Humaare Hote. Nigam is married to Madhurima and also had a son named Neevan.

Tippu is a playback singer of Indian cinema. He has worked in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam languages. He has lent his voice to over 4000 songs in the four south Indian languages. His voice for Puneeth Rajkumar went well with the audience. Shiva Shiva Hoguthidde, Hey Hey Paaru, etc are some of his hit songs. His association with music director V Harikrishna is very famous. Tippu has sung for Tamil music composers A R Rahman, Imman, Harris Jayaraj, and Joshua Sridhar.

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.”