1. Parul Yadav
Parul Yadav is a popular Kannada actress in both television and film. The model turned actress started her acting career in Bhagyavidhaata, a television series telecasted on Colors. In the year 2011, her acting performance in the Govindaya Namaha, a Kannada film that brought her to the limelight. She played the role of Mumtaz, a Muslim girl falling in love with Govinda played by Komal Kumar. For this very performance, she received SIIMA Best Debutant award as well as the Bangalore Times Best Newcomer Award. In addition to this, she was also nominated in the Best Female Actor category for the Udaya Awards. The song "Pyarge Aagbittaite" featuring her went viral on the internet sites and took her towards stardom. The young actress also received the 'Glamour Icon of the Year' award from the Suvarna TV channel.
She was born on 5th June, 1982. The actress began her career as a TV actor in Mumbai and then debuted in a B-grade Hindi movie Meri Aaghosh Mein starring opposite Shakti Kapoor. It was until 2004, Parul ventured into South Indian movies, starring in Dreams (Tamil film) that had a star cast including Dhanush as well as Diya. She was also seen on a comedy reality show named ‘Comedy Ka Maha Muqabala’ as a participant member of the team 'Raveena ke Mohre' telecasted on Star Plus.
...2. Vinay Krishna
Vinay Krishna in a man pursuing multiple professional careers but all related to the Indian movie industry. He is an Indian film director, a producer as well as an actor. His work predominantly belongs to the Kannada film industry. His most recent release was in the year 2018.
...3. Chandan Shetty
Chandan is a South Indian playback singer, rapper, lyricist, composer and music director. He is also known as Kannada Rapper Chandan Shetty. He was born on 17th September 1989 in Sakleshpur in the Hassan district of Karnataka. He has written lyrics for about 30 songs, sang more than 45 songs and worked as an assistant music director for about 40 Kannada movies.
...4. Chiranjeevi Sarja
Chiranjeevi Sarja was born on October 17 1984 in Bangalore; He is also known as Chiru and is an Indian film actor based in Kannada movie Industry. He also has a younger brother Dhruva Sarja. His uncle is well known actor Arjun Sarja, who is also known as "action king" and is the grandson of veteran actor Shakti Prasad.
Chiranjeevi Sarja did his schooling in Baldwin Boys High School and completed his graduation from Vijaya College; Bangalore. He started assisting his uncle Arjun Sarja for about four years before coming into Kannada film industry. He made his debut in the Kannada movie Vayuputra in the lead role. Vayuputra was a romantic action film directed and produced by his Uncles Kishore Sarja actor Arjun Sarja. Vayuputra was a remake of the hit Tamil film Sandakozhi .His films, Vayuputra, Chiru and Varadanayaka, were declared hit. So far he has done ten films in his career. Such as Gandedhe, Dandam Dashagunam, Whistle, Ajith etc.
As Chiranjeevi Sarja is a believer, he visits Chamundi Hills to pay respects to the goddess there before release of his films. In fact, after every film of his becomes a box office success, the actor visits Chamundi Hills. It has almost a custom for Chiranjeevi Sarja to pay respect to the goddess Chamundi
His brother Dhruva Sarja also started his career in the film industry in the super hit movie 'Addhuri', which also got fame and established him as upcoming star.
Chiranjeevi Sarja suffered from respiratory issues and severe chest pain on 6th June 2020. He was admitted to the hospital in Bangalore. The treatment didn’t help him recover. His body didn’t recuperate to the medicines and he breathed his last on 7th June 2020.
...5. Trivikram Sapalya
Trivikram Saphalya is a producer from Kannada film industry. He is from Belthangady in Dakshina Kannada district. From a manufacturing businessman, he became a producer in the film industry. He has produced the film Karihaida Koragajja. In becoming a producer in the Kannada film industry, he has the inspiration of Rajkumar and Vishnuvardhan films. The film Koragajja is based on the life story of the Koragajja community. In 2012, he produced the film Pari. This film also became a success. He has also produced the film Caesar, directed by Vinay. It was released in more than 200 theatres. The film peaked with various action elements, which make this film a successful one. This is one of the best action films sold for a vast amount.
...6. Srikanth
Srikanth is an Indian cinema actor. He has mainly worked in Tamil industry. He was born on February 28, 1978, to Jayanthi and Krishnamachari. His brother, Sudhir is working in the USA as a software engineer. He is married to Vandana in November 2007. They have two children together, a daughter Ahana and a son Aahil. Srikanth's nickname is Sree. Srikanth completed his schooling from SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Chennai. Also, he did his graduation from Hindustan College of Arts and Science. It is located in Chennai too. In his college days, he participated in a fashion show organised by Madras College in the year 1997. This experience of his led him to stages shows and then to becoming an actor.
...7. Srikanth Gowda
Srikanth Gowda is an Indian Editor who predominantly works in the Kannada cinema industry. He was born on March 5, 1979 in Channapatna in Karnataka and currently lives in Bangalore. He started working with Balaji telefilms. Srikanth worked in many popular television serials such as Kumkuma Bhagya and Maneyodhu Morru Bhagilu. He is also a producer who own Srikanth Productions Company in which he produced television serials such as Katakateya Kathegalu aired on Zee Kannada.
...8. Nagendra Kumar
Nagendra Kumar is an Indian cinematographer and a film director who predominantly works in Telugu Cinema. He was born on 9th January 1962 in Bangalore. He has worked for around 95 feature films and 45 television films in many languages like Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Bihari, Odia, Marathi, and Urdu. He made his debut as director of photography for the movie Srivari Chindulu.
...9. Jolly Bastin
Jolly Bastian is a stunt master of the South cine Industry. Born on September 24, 1966, in Alappuzha Kerala later brought up in Bangalore. He started his career as a mechanic and was passionate about bikes. He used to perform a wheelie on his motorbike, which was noticed by a filmmaker who introduced him to Kannada film industry as a stuntman. Initially, he started as bike stuntman and duplicate, before establishing himself as a professional stuntman.
...10. Avinash BS
B S Avinash, also known as Avinash Yelandur, is an Indian film actor. He was born on 29 August 1974 in Karnataka, India. After completing his school education in Karnataka, he attended and graduated from the University of Mysore. Avinash's father was a businessman. He has a sister named Anu. His wife's name is Geetha, and he has a son with her, Akul. He joined his late father's business earlier. He attended several workshops on acting and building confidence before auditioning for films. He played the role of Andrew in the movie KGF Chapter 1 in 2018. The movie was a box office hit globally. Then, he appeared in its sequel- KGF Chapter 2 in 2022. Avinash is a fitness enthusiast and ran in the Mysore Dasara Celebration Marathon in 2012.
...11. Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Prakash Rai, in Bangalore, is an actor, director, and producer. He is also a television presenter and has worked in films of many languages. He is best known for his work in the film industry of South India, and for playing roles of a villain in quite a few Bollywood films. He hails from a Tulu and Kannada-speaking household and is fluent in various other languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. He also has an actor brother named Prasad Raj. He studied at St. Joseph’s Boy’s School, and subsequently, at St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Both institutions are in Bangalore. Prakash has three children, Meghana, Pooja, and Sidhu, from his earlier marriage to the actress Lalitha Kumari. His son, unfortunately, passed away in the year 2004. He is currently married to the choreographer Pony Verma. In the first few years of his career, he worked in Kannada Doordarshan, doing serials like Guddada Bhootha, and he also acted in supporting roles in Kannada movies like Nishkarsha.
...12. Ravi Prakash
Ravi Prakash is the Telugu actor who is growing well in the south Indian films with popularity. He was born in the year 1981 in Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. He was introduced to the cinema industry through the film Subhavela in the year 2000. The film was directed by Teja; but Ravi was not recognized at that time. When he did not get proper recognition, Ravi Prakash got fed up and continued with his MBBS. He became a qualified doctor. After 4 years, he was called by Gautam Menon to perform as a Police officer in the film Gharshana. It gave him a good breakthrough and the audience recognized him well. Athadu, Killer, Simha, Gaganam, Payanam, Vedam, Vaanam, Dookudu, Maattraan, Solo, Ishq, Badshah, Edhir Neechal, Thalaivaa, Aagadu, Nee Thaane En Pon Vasantham, S/O Satyamurthy and Gabbar is back are his popular Telugu and Tamil movies. Recently, he has performed with Balakrishna in the film Lion, in a good role. Dagudumootha Dandakor is his latest film. With his excellent performance, Ravi Prakash attracts the audiences. People say that, when they hear the name Ravi Prakash, an image of a Police officer, screens in front of their eyes. Ravi is very choosy in his films and hence he gets good roles, so far.
...13. Sadhu Kokila
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 musician. He has the reputation of being one of the swiftest keyboard players in India. Kokila has helmed direction for 12 Kannada flicks, and 6 of them were remakes. His directorial venture Anarkali was dropped midway.
Kokila expresses that audiences and the media question whether his films are a remake or original. He had made up his mind not to endeavor in remakes. He feels that composing music requires a lot of creativity. As far as his comedy stint is concerned, he is loved by the audience. And about acting he feels that it is exciting. Sadhu Kokila has received awards for music direction twice.
As far as remakes are concerned Kokila is of the view that there are creative limitations. But originals are enjoyable both in the sense of creativity and visualization. Sadhu Kokila along with Doddanna make a good pair for situation comedies. Kokila is compared with Johnny Lever of Bollwyood,for his comedy skills.
On his personal front, Kokila is wedded to Saleena. They are blessed with two sons.