Kannada Tv Show Namaste Karnataka - Cast & Crew

Films made in the four major South Indian languages have much in common by way of production locations, technicians as well as other behind the screen facilities and functions. Sometimes there are also “on screen” synergies by way of multilingual movies made simultaneously in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. This has given rise to a group of multi lingual stars who are equally adept in any of these languages.

Bhavana Rao is a beautiful Indian film actress who has contributed to the Indian Cinema mainly in Kannada and Tamil language. She was born in Shimoga, India. She is popularly known as Shikha. She made her debut with the movie Gaalipata in the year 2008; It is a Kannada film being a romantic comedy. The film has won many awards for its excellence in certain fields of filmmaking. Bhavana Rao managed to get appreciation from the critics for her work in the debut film. This film brought her leading roles in movies like Kola Kholaya Mundhirika is a capture of hilarious comedy in Tamil language, released in the year 2010. Shikha played the lead role with other co-actors, VaahRe Vaah, and a recent movie in the year 2016 Parapancha which is a psychological comedy movie.,

Greeshma Shridhar is an Indian film actress. Her date of birth is 14th July 1996. Her zodiac sign is Cancer. She was born and brought-up in Bangalore, Karnataka. Her mother tongue is Kannada. She made her debut in acting with the Kannada film ‘Malgudi Days’ in 2020.

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Gurukiran or also known as Gurukiran Shetty is a well-known music director from the Kannada film industry, who started his career in the year 1994 as director V. Manohar’s assistant. He was born on October 28 in Mangalore, Karnataka to K Jayaram Shetty and Ratnakanti. He studied at St. Aloysius Primary School in the early 70’s and he is an active class singer back then. He graduated Commerce in Mangalore University and after that he started to perform in orchestras as a singer and keyboardist. 

Gurukiran entered the film industry as a music director for the Upendra-starrer and directorial film entitled A in the year 1998. Due to the success of the film, Upendra wanted him to work again on his next film. Gurukiran composed the songs in the psychological-thriller Kannada film, Upendra in year 1999, while Upendra himself penned the lyrics. 

Besides music, Gurukiran wanted to enter the film industry as an actor and so he tried his luck in Sandalwood. Gurukiran’s first film was entitled Mr. Shanker Bekal as a cameraman. He then appeared on his first major role in the 1993 heist thriller film, Nishkarsha, helmed by Sunil Kumar Desai. However, he failed to make an impact as an actor. 

His major breakthrough came in the year 2005 in Shivarajkumar-starrer Jogi, where he sang the songs Hodi Maga and Bin Ladennu Nan Maava. This record made an all time record in the Kannada film industry with a record selling prior to the release of the film. In 2007, he entered the Telugu film industry with the Telugu remake of Jogi entitled Yogi, helmed by V. V. Vinayak. He also scored the music for the Telugu film, Nagavalli in 2010. 

Gurukiran has been into judging musical talent show such as Confident Star Singer Season 2 on Asianet Suvarna and on ETV Kannada’s Ede Tumbi Haduvenu. He sang several songs in Kannada films, including the Kanasina Maratta from the Kannada romance film, Banna Bannada Loka, which became a big hit. Gurukiran received several awards for his outstanding contributions to the Kannada film industry, including the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Music Director in 2011 and many more. 

He got married to Pallavi Guru Kiran and they have been blessed with two children namely Hrudaya and Shravya.

K.M. Chaitanya is a theater actor, director and documentary maker in Kannada languages. He made his debut as a director with the movie, Aa Dinagalu. Aa Dinagalu received many awards at different functions including Best Feature Film and Best Director Award at Filmfare Awards South in the year 2007. His next movies as a director include Suryakanthi, which was released in 2009 and Paraari, released in 2013. He also has a degree in Journalism. Also, he has worked on CNN's show CNN dot com as a Bangalore correspondent.