Jayathirtha | |
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| Born | 8 May 1977 Bangalore, India |
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| Known for | Olave Mandara Tony Beautiful Manasugalu Bell Bottom |
| Spouse | Poornima H. D. |
| Children | 1 |
Jayathirtha B. V. (born May 8, 1977) is an Indian theater activist, production designer and filmmaker. [1] He is known for his movies Olave Mandara, Tony, Beautiful Manasugalu, and Bell Bottom. He is also known for his work as a director and play writer.
Jayathirtha was born and brought up in Bangalore, Karnataka. A high school dropout due to financial constraints, he started working as a salesman at 17 and took up theater as a pastime.[ citation needed ] He trained at Abhinayataranga under the renowned theatre personality A. S. Murthy [2] and later became a teacher in the same institution.
Jayathirtha won several awards for his works in theatre including the B. V. Karanth Best Stage Reviewer Award (1997) for his critical review of the play, Maranayak.[ citation needed ]
In 2007, he directed a short film called Hasivu (Hunger). The movie won the Best Indian Short Film award at Cinerail Film Festival, Paris.[ citation needed ]
In 2011, he directed a full-fledged Kannada feature film, Olave Mandara which brought several awards including the 59th Filmfare Awards (Best Director). [3] The sub-plot of Olave Mandara is inspired by the real-life events of Dashrath Manjhi who cut a rocky hill for 22 years to build a road in memory of his wife.
Later he directed Tony (2013) which won him the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay. [4]
Bullet Basya (2015) was a Kannada comedy film and a commercial entertainer. [5]
Beautiful Manasugalu (2017) was another successful movie, based on the true occurrences that shocked people in 2012. [6] [7] [8] The movie won Best Dialogues Award at KAFTA Times of India 2017, the only awards given to technicians in Kannada film industry. [9]
Vanilla (2018) [10] is a murder mystery with a message of social concerns.
Bell Bottom (2019) [11] is a comedy crime thriller, a story of a die-hard fan of detective stories. It became the first Kannada film in 2019 to complete 100 days. [12] It also won the second best commercial film recognition at Bangalore International Film Festival 2020. [13] The movie has won Best Director Award in Critics Choice Film Awards 2020. [14]
In November 2020, Jayathirtha along with four other Kannada film directors KM Chaitanya, Shashank (director), Yogaraj Bhat, and Pawan Kumar (director) came together to make a 2-hour film. [15]
In January 2021, Bell Bottom 2, the sequel to the blockbuster Bell Bottom was announced to be directed by Jayathirtha. [16]
Jayathirtha has conducted more than 150 theater training programs, focusing on issues including life skills.[ citation needed ] He penned and directed 65 street plays and ten stage plays from 1996 to 2007. He organized those plays to spread social awareness among illiterates and the backward classes. Jayathirtha directed Hathim Thi , an experiment with 500 actors, at the Al-Ameen school building.
Jayathirtha has used street plays as an effective medium to convey philosophical messages, concerning social issues, imbued with the entertaining flow. His approach is to involve the audience in the flow of the plays. He scripted six stage plays and 69 street plays/shows. [17]
Jayathirtha directed a 450-episode[ when? ] of educational radio drama for children, Chukki Chinna – Chinnara Chukki, for an NGO Education Development Center under Sarva Shikshana Abhiyana program of Government of India.[ citation needed ] This interactive syllabus-based radio program was recorded between 2005-2007, but it continues to play on the radio for first-standard to sixth-standard students in Karnataka government schools.[ citation needed ]
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| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Notes |
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| 2007 | Hasivu |  | | Short Film |
| 2011 | Olave Mandara | | | |
| 2013 | Tony | | | also Lyricist |
| 2015 | Endendigu | | ||
| Bullet Basya | | | ||
| 2017 | Beautiful Manasugalu | | | |
| 2018 | Vanilla | | | |
| 2019 | Bell Bottom | | | |
| 2022 | Banaras | | | [18] |
| 2023 | Kaiva | | | in post-production |
| 2022 | Bell Bottom 2 [19] | | | in pre production |
| Movie | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| Hasivu | Cinerail Film Festival, Paris | Best short film (Indian) | Won | |
| Olave Mandara | 59th Filmfare Awards South | Best Director – Kannada | Won | [20] |
| Raghavendra Chitravaani Award | Best Director | Won | ||
| 'Big FM – ETV' award | Best Director | Won | ||
| Santosham Award | Best Director - Kannada | Won | ||
| 1st SIIMA Awards | Best Director | Nominated | [21] | |
| Tony | 2013 Karnataka State Film Awards | Best Screenplay | Won | [22] |
| Lalitha Kala Academy Award | Best Director | Won | ||
| Beautiful Manasugalu | 65th Filmfare Awards South | Best Director | Nominated | [23] |
| KAFTA Times of India 2017 | Best Dialogues | Won | [24] | |
| Bell Bottom | Zee Comedy Awards 2020 | Best Director | Won | [25] |
| Chandanavana Critics' Academy Award | Best Screenplay | Won | ||
| Critics’ Choice Film Awards 2020 | Best Director | Won | [26] | |
| 9th SIIMA Awards | Best Director | Nominated | ||
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