Santhu

Hari Santhosh better known as Santhu is a lyricist, director, and producer known for his contribution to the Kannada Film Industry. Santhu was born in the town of Sringeri in Karanataka. His father was an art director, hence filmmaking and production were something that came naturally to him. He shifted to Bangalore for his schooling at Sri Siddaganga School. He was well-acquainted with the film set and the process that goes behind making a film early on since his father used to take him along for shootings. Santhu started working as an assistant to the director Kiran Kumar Kiran Kumar is an Indian Bollywood actor who has w >> Read More... aka Prem.

He assisted him during the making of films like Ee Preethi Yeke Bhoomi Melide, Excuse Me, and Kariya. In the year 2012, Santhu turned into a director, lyricist, and screenplay writer with the movie Alemari Click to look into! >> Read More... . The film got a lot of critical acclaim and won him a nomination at the Filmfare Awards South (2013) in the category of Best Director. He also won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Director (Debut). He later directed Darling Click to look into! >> Read More... (2014), College Kumar (2017), By Two Love (2022), Dove Click to look into! >> Read More... (2015), Bicchugatti: Chapter 1 − Dalvayi Dange (2020), and Victory Click to look into! >> Read More... 2 (2018).

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Hari Santosh, a.k.a. Santhu, is a renowned Indian director of the Sandalwood film industry. He made his directorial debut with the Kannada romantic action-drama “Alemari” (2012), starring Yogesh. The movie, due to being based on the same old theme of a love story interrupted by a gangster, grossed fairly at the box office.

However, it went down in the critics’ good books in terms of its direction and music. It was nominated for three honors at the 2013 Filmfare Awards: best director, music director ( Arjun Janya Arjun Janya is an Indian singer and music composer >> Read More... ), and supporting actress (Umashree). It built a solid foundation for Santhu’s future in the showbiz. In his second venture, Santhu tried his hand at horror blended with comedy to create “Darling” (2015).

A derivative of the Telugu film “Prema Katha Chitram” (2013), it marked the return of producer, Allu Aravind Allu Aravind is a film producer in Andhra Pradesh >> Read More... , to Tamil films after twenty-five years. The success of the film led Santhu to take up more humorous projects. In 2017, he released the rom-com “College Kumara,” produced by Padmanabhan. It narrates the story of Kumar (played by Vikky Varun Vikky Varun is an Indian actor, director, assistan >> Read More... ) who rebels against his hard-working peon father, Shivakumar (played by P. Ravishankar), after Shivakumar’s expectations from him become too much for him to bear.

The film was critically acclaimed and is being remade into Tamil and Telugu versions. Santhu also directed “Victory 2” (2018), the sequel to Nanda Kishore’s hilarious comedy “Victory” (2013). It retained the entire lead cast from the first installment of the series but did not resound as well as its prequel.

Santhu’s other contributions include “Dove” (2015), “Humble Politician Nograj” (2018), and “Londonalli Lambodhara” (2019). He is currently filming for his upcoming project “Bichchugatti,” a historical war film, set to hit the theatres in the winter of 2019. After that Santhu will most likely make his debut in Tollywood in his second unnamed project with Padmanabhan.