Sonu Nigam is an Indian singer, music director and actor. He has been described in the media as one of the most popular and successful playback singers of Hindi Cinema. He has been honoured by the Government of India with Padma Shri, the country's fourth-highest civilian honour for his contribution in the field of arts.
Yogaraj Bhat is an Indian Kannada film-maker, director, screenwriter, lyricist and producer. He is most known for the 2006 film Mungaru Male. The film recorded the highest box-office collections in the history of Kannada cinema at the time of its release and the longest running film at a multiplex.
Rajesh Krishnan is an Indian playback singer and film actor. Although he is known for his works in Kannada films, he has sung in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and other languages Making his mainstream debut in the film Gauri Ganesha (1991), he has sung for many feature films, devotional albums, theme albums and commercials in a career spanning over almost two decades. He won Nandi Award for Best Male Playback Singer for the film Ninne Pelladata in (1996).
The Tamil Filmfare Best Female Playback Award is given by Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Tamil films. The first Tamil award was given in 2006. However, since 1997 till 2005, a common award for playback was available for both male and female singers of all the four South Indian languages.
Just Maath Maathalli is a 2010 Indian Kannada romance film written and directed by Sudeep starring himself, Ramya and Rajesh Nataranga in the lead roles. The film follows Siddharth's search for Tanu to confess his love for her.
Kiran Kumar, known by his screen name Prem, is an Indian film director in Kannada cinema.
Shreya Ghoshal is an Indian singer who has established herself as a leading playback singer of Indian cinema. She is highly regarded as one of the most successful singers of all time, having won six Filmfare Awards, ten Filmfare Awards South and four National Film Awards. She has established herself as one of the leading singers in Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and bhojpuri languages.
Huchcha is a 2001 Indian Kannada-language romantic action film direced by Om Prakash Rao, starring Sudeep and Rekha Vedavyas in the lead roles. The film, the Kannada remake of the 1999 Tamil film Sethu directed by Bala and starring Vikram, brought lot of fame to Sudeep. Earlier the script was rejected by Upendra and shivarajkumar The film Huchcha 2 is not a continuation of this film but has a similar theme.
Kempe Gowda is a 2011 Kannada-language action film starring Sudeep and Ragini Dwivedi in the lead roles. The film was directed by Sudeep and produced by Shankar Gowda. It is a remake of the Tamil-language film Singam directed by Hari. Arjun Janya has composed the music. A namesake sequel titled Kempegowda 2 was released in 2019.
The Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback - Kannada is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Kannada films. The first Kannada award was given in 2007. Before that, since 1997 till 2005, a common award for playback was available for both Male and Female singers of all the four South Indian languages.
Vishnuvardhana is a 2011 Indian Kannada language comedy thriller starring Sudeep and Priyamani directed by P. Kumar, in his debut, and produced by Dwarakish.The film's music was composed by V. Harikrishna. The film was released on 8 December 2011. The film was officially remade in Bengali in 2014 as Bachchan. The movie was reported to have been inspired by the 2009 Korean movie Handphone. 5 years later, it was dubbed in Hindi as Mr. Mobile 2.
Vani Harikrishna is an Indian film playback singer and music director, who works in South Indian films, primarily in Kannada cinema. She has composed, written and sung several devotional songs before entering into the film playback singing. She won Karnataka State Award for her rendition of "Madhuvana Karedare" song from the film Inthi Ninna Preethiya. Vani debuted as a film composer with the 2013 film Loosegalu. Currently Jury member of Sa-Re-Ga-Ma-Pa singing reality show aired in Zee Kannada.
Belli is a 2014 Indian Kannada drama film written and directed by Mussanje Mahesh. It stars Shiva Rajkumar and Kriti Kharbanda in the lead roles alongside an ensemble of Vinod Prabhakar, Orata Prashanth, Shishya Deepak and Venkatesh Prasad. The supporting cast features Sudha Rani, Aravinda Rao and Padma Vasanthi. The plot revolves around the journey of five friends in the Bangalore mafia.
Achena Prem is a 2011 Bengali romantic film directed by Swapan Saha and produced under the banner of Maa Kali Films. The movie is an unofficial remake of hit Kannada movie Mussanjemaatu. Surprisingly the fact that it is a remake of the Kannada movie has not been mentioned either on the Achena Prem's official website or in other reviews/articles on the internet All Kannada songs from the original have been also retained in the movie. The song "Kar Mone te ki Swopno Thake" is the Bengali version of Kannada song "Enagali Munde Saagu Nee" and "Tomake Bhebe Mon" is the Bengali version of Kannada song "Ninna Nodalento".
