Kannada Awards Comedy Awards 2020 - Cast & Crew

Yathiraj Jaggesh is an Indian actor, director, and producer. He was born on 17th March 1963. He was born at Turuvekere, Tumkur, Karnataka, India. He works in the Kannada film industry. He is famous for his screen name as “Navarasa Nayaka.” It means that master of nine emotions. He started his career in the year 1978. He is a member of Legislative Assembly, Turuvekere. Yathiraj Jaggesh made his debut in the year 1983 in the movie ‘Ibbani Karagithu’ in a small role to appearing as a hero in ‘Banda Nanna Ganda.’

He started getting his success in old movies ‘Tharle Nan Maga,’ ‘Super Nan Manga,’ ‘Server Somanna,’ and many more. He started his cinema career as an assistant director in the year 1982. He has acted in more than 120 movies. In the year 2012 he entere...

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.

He has sung in Kannada, Tamil, Telegu and Malayalam movies. He has also hosted the renowned reality TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa on Zee Kannada and has also performed in shows with the great Indian percussionist Ustad Zakir Hussain. Prakash is one of the four singers of the song ‘Jai Ho’, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The song also won a Grammy Award in the category ‘Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Medi...

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.

He played keyboard in the background for about thirty films. He started his career with being an assistant to composers K. Kalyan and V. Manohar. His music first became a hit with the film Biruga...

H. Anand, initially credited as Master Anand, is an Indian film and television actor in Kannada language. He started his career as a child actor, in 1990s films like Phani Ramachandra's Gauri Ganesha(1991), S. Mahendra's Thayi Illada Thavaru (1994) and Kishore Sarja's Makkala Sakshi(1994). He received the best child actor award for these three films and kept the title “Master” with his name even when he debuted as a lead actor in Kannada movies.

Master Anand also made a popular appearance in an adult lead role in film ‘Friends’ that released in 2002 and was a critically successful commercial cinema. Later on, after some of his excellent performance on screen as a lead actor, people had seen him taking an interest in the direction ...

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...