Kannada Awards Karnataka State Film Awards 2009 - Cast & Crew

Sumana Kittur is a writer, lyricist, director, journalist and she has been working for Sandalwood. Kittur had entered into the movie industry with the film ‘Aa Dinagalu’ and she took the role aof ans associate director for this screenplay. It was released in the year 2007. Besides that she narrated the lyrics for the title song. Slowly but steadily that movie got a mammoth public response through which she got noticed independently for her work. Her successive releases are Slum Bala, which was directed by Kittur herself and released in the year 2008. In 2009, Kallara Santhe movie was released. ‘Edegarike’ film had got an enormous response, which was directed by Kittur in the year 2012.

After that she has taken some gap to release another movie and her latest movie was Kiragoorina Gayyali...

Chandrakala Mohan is a South Indian actress who works in the Kannada film industry, Kannada television industry, the Tulu film industry and the theatre. She hails from Mandya in Karnataka. She has a son named Venugopal. She started her television career in 1995. She has acted in about a thousand dramas and more than fifty serials and movies.

Chandrakala is most well known for her work in the television series Puttagowri Maduve directed by K. S. Ramji. The serial was a remake of the Hindi serial Balika Vadhu on Colors TV. She played the role of Ajjama in the Kannada serial. The serial aired on channels like ETV Kannada and Colors Kannada. The serial received a viewership of 3.8 million on Colors Kannada. She is also known for her work in the television series Thayavva dir...

Her mother Gayathri Prabhakar, the dubbing artist and actress, had introduced Anu Prabhakar into films. She debuted as a child artiste, in the two 1990 films “Chapala Chennigaraya” followed by “Shanti Kranti” and later went on to act in over 60 films, establishing herself well in the Kannada film industry. Having acted as the leading lady in several films, she now seems to have decided to play more of cameo roles, judging from her chosen role in the upcoming film, “Fair and Lovely”. Industry circles also say that she is perhaps now trying to get into a directorial mould – a long felt aspiration of hers. On the sidelines, she is also trying to catch up with finishing her education which she had to abruptly interrupt due to the priorities of acting, when she was an upcoming actress. After all, sh...

Srinivas P Babu resides in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He is also known as Srinivas Babu. He works as an editor in the Tollywood and Sandalwood Film industries. Furthermore, he has been born and brought up in Bengaluru, Karnataka. He has been working in Telugu and Kannada languages. Some of his great works as an editor include ‘Bhanu Weds Bhoomi’ released in 2019, ‘The Villain’ in 2018, ‘DK’ in 2015, ‘Paru Wife of Devdas’ in 2014, ‘Mahanadhi’ in 2013, ‘Hosa Prema Purana’ in 2012, ‘Aravinda’ in 2012 and many more. He has also worked as a Cinematographer in films such as ‘Bhanu Weds Bhoomi’ in 2019.

Other than this information, there is nothing regarding his personal life, education, and family. He doesn’t seem to...

From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, Sundaranath Suvarna worked as a cinematographer in the Kannada film industry. He worked as a cameraman for over 150 Kannada films and produced and directed a few. In honor of their father, his daughters maintain a studio. Amruthavarshini, his first daughter, is in charge of the establishment. The third daughter, Sathyashree, is the most talented and does the majority of the work. She is a philanthropist and donates to cancer societies in honor of their father.

Suvarna worked as a cinematographer on several films, including Sri Manjunatha, Mussanjemathu, Operation Antha, Anuraaga Sangama, and Lockup Death. He was also known for his role in the coastal movie industry's record-breaking film Bangar Patler. He was a well-known artist who depicted Tulu culture successfully in his movie...

Abhaya Simha is a profound director who debuted through the movie, "Gubbachchigalu" a Kannada film which won him a national award for best children’s film in 2008. Abhaya Simha was born on 12th June 1981 in Mangalore, Karnataka. He completed his graduation from St Aloysius College, Mangalore. He received a degree in Kannada and English literature and also completed a journalism course before learning to make films. After this education in Mangalore, he went to Pune and joined P.G diploma in film direction in FTII, Puna (Film and Television Institute of India). After completing his learning and skill development, he started making documentary films and music videos and got involved in the film industry.

Abhaya Simha’s father Ashoka Vardhana is a famous writer in Karnataka and his grandfather G. T. Narayana ...

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. 

Harikrishna also owns a music company "D-Beats" which was established in the year 2013. And the first film to be produced by the company was the movie Bulbul, which was released in the year 2013. He has won three back to back Filmfare Awards for Best Music for his music producti...

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.

His lyrics were carried out by 400 movies....

CV Shivashankar is a celebrity of south TV and film industry. He was born on 23rd March 1933 in Tiptur Tumkur in Karnataka. He is known for, A Day in the City, he is a Kannada writer-director and producer. He was born to Mr. Venkatakrishna Bhatt and Mrs. Venkat Lakshmamma.

The renowned producer cum director has also won Dr. Rajkumar and Karnataka Rajyotsava awards. He started in the entertainment industry as an actor, assistant director and production manager in 1962 with his film Rathna Manjari.

In the following years, he only worked as an actor in films like Santha Thukaram (1963) and Postmaster (1964). After a gap of about a year, he got a chance to showcase his other talents in the movie Mane Katti Nodu.

Apart from acting in this film the story of the was also written by him. He also worked as a lyricist, di...

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.

He has sung the hit Tamil songs Venmathi Venmathi, O Mama from Minnale. The movie had Madhavan in the lead role. Tippu is married to the famous Indian playback singer Harini. Tippu began singing when he was at the age of 19. He received the Karnataka State Film Award and the Kalaimamani Award by Tamilnadu Government for his playback singing.

Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar is a multitalented figure in the cultural domain of South India. He is a renowned writer (having written screenplays, dialogues, and stories), director, producer, columnist, and a lyricist. He was born on 15th August 1951 in a village named Nagathihalli in Mandya district, Karnataka. Since the very beginning, he had an inclination towards literature and so, he mastered in Kannada literature from the Mysore University. His first profession was of a Kannada professor at the Mysore University itself. Soon, he became a successful intellectual and literary figure, having authored many novels and short stories (publishing them as a collection), for which he won the Aryabhatta Awards.

He entered the film industry in 1986 with ‘...

Siddaraj Kalyankar has been playing the supporting character roles in Kannada movies. He also had acted in Malayalam movies too. He played the role of Upendra’s guardian in the Kannada film ‘Godfather’ that released in 2013. He even acted in a Malayalam movie named ‘Oru Yakshi Kadha‘ which was a love story.

In 2008, he acted in one of the most critically acclaimed Kannada movie ‘Avva’ which was released under the banner of Pyramid Saimira Limited. The movie was a hit. Also, he acted in a most successful and top ranking Kannada TV serial named ‘Baduku’.

The mega television serial had 3238 episodes that were aired in Sun Network ‘Udaya TV’. ‘Baduku’ was direct...

Guruprasad is a prominent film actor, writer and director in the Kannada film industry. Guruprasad is a scientist in the Hindustan Lever but he chose to follow his passion and enter the film industry. He is now known as a director who depicts realistic story line in his films. He started his career in the year 2006 as a director in the Cult Hit Kannada film Mata, from which he also made a cameo appearance. This was followed by his next film entitled Eddelu Manjunatha. Both films earned rave reviews and got nominated for many award categories. Eddelu Manjunatha gained him the Best Director Award at the 57th Filmfare Awards South and the Best Screenplay Award at the Karnataka State Film Awards. 

Also known as AshwathNinasam.He is an Indian film actor who is active in the Kannadafilm industry.Ninasamwaa born and raised in Bangalore, Karnataka. He has appeared in some well known films like Naragunda Bandaaya, Jayamahal, Yogi Dhuniya,and KGF chapter 2.NinasaumAshwath acted in 180 plus movies. He us running cow farm on Mysuruand living happily with 100cows. He has two daughters Ananya and Akshara, with his wife are living together in Mysuru. He keeps traveling to Bannur, where he js doing animal husbandry and farming. He is also associated wit the 2018 Kannada movie Kaanoorayana.

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Ninasam Ashwath is a Kannada actor. He was born in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He has worked in the Sandalwood Entertainment Industry. He mainly works in Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, ...

R. N. Sudarshan is a film actor and producer. Apart from Kannada movies, he has also worked in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Malayalam films. Sudarshan was born on 2 May, 1939, to Ratna Bai and R. Nagendra Rao (actor, director). His better half, Shylashri, is also a Kannada actress.

He was just 21 years old when he made his debut in the Kannada film, Vijayanagarada Veeraputra, in 1961. Sudarshan is in the film industry from the past three decades. He has acted in more than 250 films and was in lead roles for around 60 movies, before appearing in negative roles.

He has also done television shows like Maya Machindra, My Dear Bhootham and Maragatha Veenai. He has also sung a few songs. Hoovondhu, Balibandhu, Thakithu Ennedheya - Shubhamangala in 1975, and Irabeku Irabeku Ariyada - Naguva Hoovu in 1971 are few ...