Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra, often credited as K. S. Chithra or simply Chithra, is an Indian playback singer and carnatic musician from Kerala. Chithra also sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. She has sung more than 25,000 songs in a number of Indian languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tulu, Rajasthani, Urdu, Sanskrit, and Badaga, as well as foreign languages such as Malay, Latin, Arabic, Sinhalese, English and French. She is considered as the one among the "First ladies" of India who was honoured by the President of India.
Kavita Krishnamurthy is an Indian film playback singer who has sung songs in Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, English, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati, Nepali, Bengali,Assamese, Konkani and Odiya Etc. Trained in classical music, Kavita Krishnamurthy has recorded more than 25,000 songs in 16 languages in a career span of 30 years. Working with almost all the music composers including Laxmikant–Pyarelal, Naushad, S H Bihari, Kaifi Azmi, Anjan, O P Nayyar, Khayyam, Hemant Kumar, Ravinder Jain, Bappi Lahiri, Sameer, Anand Bakshi, Javid Akthar, Anu Malik, R. D. Burman, Himesh Reshammiya, Hamsalekha, Zubeen Garg and A. R. Rahman. She is also the recipient of four Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Awards, including three consecutive awards in the period 1994–1996, and the Padmashri which she received in 2005. In 1999, she married violinist L. Subramaniam and residing in Bengaluru.
Hamsalekha is an Indian film composer and a songwriter who works in South Indian cinema, predominantly in the Kannada film industry since the late 1980s. He is also a screenplay writer, dialogue writer, instrumentalist and a conductor. Composed and written for over 500 feature films.
Kavitha Lankesh is an Indian film director, screenwriter and a lyricist known for her work in Kannada cinema industry. She began as a documentary film-maker before directing her first feature film, Deveeri (1999), which went on to win international, national and state awards. She is considered to be one of the renowned film-makers of Kannada cinema. She has directed and produced more than fifty documentaries/informational films and more than forty corporate films. Some of the films Kavitha directed have won awards and accolades from critics.
Gurukiran or Gurukiran Shetty is a music director of the Kannada film industry in India. He started his career as a music director of the Kannada movie A, directed and acted by Upendra. His music for his next movie Upendra further consolidated his position in Kannada movie industry. He is a native of Mangalore and his mother tongue is Tulu. He has also acted in several movies in side (character) roles and also sung several songs. He is popular in Kannada cinema for his foot-tapping musical scores.
Mano Murthy is a leading musician and composer in the Kannada film industry. Although his compositions in his earlier films were also successful, he shot to fame with Mungaru Male, one of the biggest hits in Kannada industry. Before moving onto becoming a composer, he was an entrepreneur, having co-founded three companies in California. He was a programmer in Microsoft. His latest venture, an IP security provider called Allegro Systems, was acquired by Cisco Systems. He has judged many reality shows such as Fresh Voice of Karnataka, Saagardaache Sapthaswara and others.
Sanju Weds Geetha is a 2011 Indian Kannada film in the romance genre starring Srinagar Kitty and Ramya in the lead roles. It was directed and written by actor-director Nagashekar and produced by Pramod Narayan. While Jassie Gift composed the soundtrack, Sadhu Kokila composed the background score. The film released on 1 April 2011.
Bengaluru Ramamurthy Chaya is an Indian playback singer, stage performer and a popular Sugama Sangeetha singer from Karnataka state. She has performed pop, folk, devotional and bhavageethe. She is affectionately known as the "Nightingale of Karnataka", a Rajyotsava Prashasti recipient from the State Government of Karnataka and recipient of Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer twice.
Nenapirali is a 2005 Indian Kannada language film directed by Ratnaja. It stars Prem Kumar, Vidhya Venkatesh and Varsha in the lead roles. The supporting cast features Naveen Krishna, Ananth Nag, Jai Jagadish, Vijayalakshmi Singh and Vinaya Prasad.
Chetan Soasca is an Indian playback singer and composer who has performed the music for many Kannada films.
Dr. Shamitha Malnad is an Indian playback singer. She is also a dentist, anchor, dubbing and voice artist by profession. She is popularly known for her works in the Kannada film industry. She has performed for many chart-buster Kannada film songs apart from Sugama Sangeetha and Devotional albums.
Anuradha Bhat is an Indian playback singer for the feature films. She sings predominantly in Kannada language films. Bhat has recorded for over 1500 feature films under the music direction of all the prominent Kannada composers like Hamsalekha, Gurukiran, V. Harikrishna, Mano Murthy, Arjun Janya among others. She has recorded more than 5000 songs in 15 different languages for various music albums. Bhat is the recipient of Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer (2012), two times Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Kannada, SIIMA - Best female singer - Kannada (2018), Mirchi Music Award (2018), Aryabhata International Award (2015) and many more.
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.
Habba is a 1999 Indian Kannada family - drama film written and directed by D. Rajendra Babu. The film has an ensemble cast including Vishnuvardhan, Ambareesh, Devaraj, Jayapradha, Urvashi, Shashikumar, Ramkumar, Vijayalakshmi, Kasthuri and Charulatha. The movie was produced by Bharathi Devi for Chinni Chitra productions. The film was remade in Telugu as Chandravamsam with Krishna. This movie loosely based on the exile of Pandavas in Mahabharata.
Nanna Preethiya Hudugi is a 2001 Indian Kannada romantic film directed and written by Nagathihalli Chandrashekar. It stars newcomers Dhyan and Deepali in lead roles and actors such as Lokesh, Bhavya and Suresh Heblikar in other prominent roles. The film is produced by Jyothi Shankar and Uma Shankar for East West Creations India (Pvt) Ltd.
Paris Pranaya is a 2003 Indian Kannada romantic drama film directed and written by Nagathihalli Chandrashekar. The film stars newcomers Raghu Mukherjee and Minal Patil in the lead role whilst Rajesh, Tara and Sharath Lohitashwa feature in other prominent roles. The film was produced by 21st Century Lions Cinema banner.
Hemanth Subramanya, known by his stage name as Hemanth, is a playback singer in Kannada cinema.
Indu Nagaraj is an Indian playback singer who primarily works in Kannada cinema. Through her successful singing career, she is the recipient of a Filmfare Award for the song "Pyarge Aagbittaite" from the film Govindaya Namaha (2012).
Inchara Rao is an Indian playback singer and performer. She won the award for 'Best Female Playback Singer' SIIMA 2016 and the Filmfare Awards South 2016 as the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Kannada. She started her career by participating in the singing reality television game show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Kannada first season. She was in the final three. After that her debut song was Nanna Stylu Berene from the movie Geleya, an item song.
Anushree is an Indian television presenter and actress who appears in Kannada films. She started her career as a television host in Kannada television and went on to become an actress, mostly appearing in Kannada language films. She won Karnataka State Film Awards for Murali Meets Meera.
