Kannada Movie Review Dana Kayonu - Cast & Crew

Priyamani is a talented actress of the Southern film industry. She received the prestigious National Award for her role in the Tamil film Paruthiveeran. Before entering into the film industry, Priyamani was doing modeling. 

Born on June 4, 1984 in Bengaluru, Priyamani debuted into the film industry with the film Tamil flick Kangalal Kaidhu Sei. The film was a disaster at the box office and she shifted to Telugu and Malayalam films. Pellaina Kothalo is her debut Telugu film opposite Jagapati Babu. This film gained her the much-needed recognition and it was declared a super hit. She came to Tamil industry with a bang through the flick Paruthiveeran, sharing screen sp...

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 bac...

R. Srinivas, popularly known as Kanakapura Srinivas, is an Indian film producer who isdedicated mainly to the production of motion pictures in the Kannada language. Kanakapura Srinivas owns RS Productions, one of India’s top film production house. Srinivas in 2001, started his film production career with ‘Subbu’ in Telugu starring Jr NTR and ‘Yuvaraja’ in Kannada starring Shiv Rajkumar.

His production company produced more than 15 movies in Kannada including, Danakayonu, Jessi, Bahaddhur, Topiwala, Mata, and many more. He also produced blockbuster movies like ‘Bharjari’ directed by Chethan Kumar in 2017. Films like ‘Baahubali: The Beginning’ in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh were under the banner of RS Productions.

R. Srinivas used to work in a silk reeling factory at ...

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...

Chetan Sosca is an Indian playback singer and composer. His record label is Aananda Audio Video. He is one of the famous figures in the Kannada Film and Music Industry who has sung more than 1000 songs. He was born in Bangalore, India. He has two daughters named Kruti and Tanya. He debuted in the music industry in 2001 with the film Kothigalu Saar Kothigalu along with the music composer Dr.Hamsalekha.

He also worked with Mano Murthy, Hari Krishna, and Guru Kiran and in the movies “TavarigeBaa Tangi” and ”Nanjundi”, the title song for Nenapirali movie after which he received wide popularity and recognition, and this proved to be a great turn in his life. In 2007, he sang the pathos song “JanumadaGelathi” for the movie “CheluvinaChittara.” In 2008, he recorded songs for the movies l...

Kailash Kher was born on 7 July, 1973 in New Delhi. He is an Indian pop Singer, Music Director and his music style is influenced by, Indian Sufi and folk music. His family belongs to Kashmiri roots. His father named Pandir Mehar Singh Kher was a famous Folk Musician and Singer. Kailash was very interested in singing and music from his childhood. He left his home at the age of 14, for learning music and took proper lessons from his guru.

After many attempts, he didn’t get the right teacher. He began to learn music, by listening to the classical music of Indian singers like Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Kumar Gaurav, Pandit Gokulotsa...

Indian film actor, a producer, a playback singer, Sharan is a multitalented Kannada film actor and belongs to Kannada cinemas. Sharan usually appeared in a comic role as a lead actor or comedy themed movies. Though he did various negative and villain roles and also started his career with that only. Sharan went into the field of acting because of his parents as he had an interest in music first. He also has his album and also songs under his name. Personal Life: Sharan was born in Bangalore, Karnataka into a family of theater artists. His grandparents and parents were renowned artists at the Gubbi theater. Sharan is the son of J.V. Krishna. His younger sister, Shruti, was one of the leading Kannada actresses in the 90's. Though he entered the film industry due to pressure from his parents, his initial i...

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...

Deepu S. Kumar is a South Indian film editor who works in the Kannada film industry. He has worked with Kannada directors like- ‘Duniya Soori’, ‘Harsha’, ‘Yograj Bhat’ and many others in movies like ‘Jackie’, ‘Bahaddur’, ‘Vajrakaya’ and many others. Deepu married Sudha Deepu on 19th August 2007 with whom he has two children. They live in Bangalore. Deepu made his film debut as a film editor with the movie ‘Mungaru Male’ written and directed by Yograj Bhat. The film hit the screens on 29th December 2006. He also worked in Bhat’s ‘Dana Kayonu’ in 2016. Deepu worked under director Duniya Soori in the film ‘Duniya’. The movie hit the screens on 23rd February 2007 and won three awards.

After the success of the film, Deep...

Vijay aka Duniya Vijay is an actor of Kannada cinema. This actor has acted in many films, and he was practically unrecognizable from the gritty characters that he played which were so meaningless. Later on, he landed up receiving some significant character and came to be recognized. His first film in which he appeared and got noticed was a film ‘Duniya’ in 2007. He had a struggling life in Sandalwood and stated to accept small roles till he was offered to play a good character by director Soori in 2007. Later, this talented actor had made his own niche of fans with his different movies and acting. However, he is a well-known face now who can play a lead hero in his films. Today, he is a well-known face in households for his rol...

Rangayana Raghu was born on 30th November, 1963. He acts in Kannada film industry and his genre is comedy. Till date he has appeared over 100 films and most of them have been comic roles.

He began his career in theatre group by name Rangayana in Mysore, way back in 1988.  His initial salary was just Rs 800 per month. He was supposed to make his debut with 1995 film Suggi, which was directed by award winning director Hamsalekha. Unfortunately, Suggi was shelved and never released.

His first major release was 2002 film Dhumm, starring Kiccha Sudeep and Rakshita directed by M.S. Ramesh. He went to act in films like Ranga SSLC, Rakshasa, and many more. However his best films till date are 2007 film Duniya and 2013 film Director's Special.

Duniya showcased Rag...

Chikkanna was born in Ballahalli district of Mysuru city in Karnataka, India. He has been working in the show-business since 2011. He is best known for his works in the Kannada cinema. He has played many comic roles in various south Indian films. He debuted on television in a Mysore-based comedy show, titled Drishya Kalavide.

His second show was a comedy TV series on Udaya TV. Chikkanna did his first film in 2011, titled Kirataka. The movie was a Kannada comedy film by Pradeep Raj. The film starred Oviya and Yash in the lead. The film was a remake of the film, Kalavani (Tamil). Chikkanna did a supporting role and was well appreciated for his work. This movie led to his increased publicity. In 2013, he did a Laskhmisri Combines’ film, titled Raja Huli. The film was directed by Deshpande Guru and produced by K. Manu. The fi...

Born in a village in the district of Bidar, Karnataka, Vaijanath Biradar was raised in a joint family. He was a veteran actor, who filmed more than 350 movies in the Kannada film industry. His family possessed lands in their hometown of Tegampur in Balki taluk of Bidar district. Biradar stated that he had an obsession with acting since his childhood, which was responsible for the loss of focus in his studies. He ran away from home to join a theater company.

At present, he is a 70+ year-old actor who has acted in more than 350 films. A few of the movies acted by Vaijanath Biradar were Kashinath’s Love Training and Mata. Mata is a movie that is centred on the theme of obtaining enlightenment by overcoming emotions such as anger, lust and desire. Here Biradar was seen...

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