PRK Productions

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PRK Productions
Company type Private Limited company
IndustryMotion pictures
FoundedJuly 20, 2017;6 years ago (2017-07-20)
Founder Puneeth Rajkumar
Headquarters
Bangalore
,
India
Key people
 Ashwini Puneeth Rajkumar [1]
ProductsFilm production
ServicesFilm production
Music
Subsidiaries PRK Audio

PRK Productions is an Indian film production company founded by Puneeth Rajkumar and managed by his wife, Ashwini Puneeth Rajkumar. [2] [3]

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History

PRK Productions was founded on 20 July 2017. [1] The production house made its feature film debut with Kavaludaari (2019), a neo-noir thriller film starring Rishi and Anant Nag. [4] The studio's next film was Mayabazar 2016 (2020), which featured an ensemble cast of Raj B. Shetty, Vasishta N. Simha, and Prakash Raj. [5] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the production house's next two ventures, Law and French Biriyani , were directly released on Amazon Prime Video in 2020. [3] Law marked the film debut of Ragini, Prajwal Devaraj's wife. [6] French Biriyani starred Danish Sait and Sal Yusuf marked the film debut of TikToker Disha Madan. [7]

The next three films of the banner- One Cut Two Cut starring Danish Sait, Family Pack starring Likith Shetty and Amrutha Iyengar and Man of the Match directed by D.Satya Prakash of Rama Rama Re fame were a direct release on Amazon Prime Video. [8] [9] Their next release was Gandhadagudi , the last film of late Puneeth Rajkumar, directed by the National Award winner AmoghaVarasha JS. [10]

Ashwini took over the production house fully after Puneeth's death in October 2021 and continued their objective of supporting and bring in fresh faces and ideas into the industry. [11] In 2023, they released the comedy drama movie Aachar & Co . directed and acted by Sindhu Sreenivas Murthy with a majority of cast as newbies and women. [12] [13] The movie opened to positive to mixed reviews from critics but ran to full theatres with family audience across Karnataka for around 25 days. [14] [15]

To celebrate the birth anniversary of Puneeth, Ashwini joined hands with KRG Studios to re-release one of his most celebrated movie Jackie on 15 March 2024. [16]

Filmography

Key
†Denotes films that have not yet been released
List of film credits
YearTitleDirectorCastNotesRef.
2019 Kavaludaari Hemanth M. Rao Rishi, Anant Nag, Roshni Prakash, Achyuth Kumar [4]
2020 Mayabazar 2016 Radhakrishna Reddy Raj.B.Shetty, Vasishta, Achyuth Kumar, Chaithra Rao [5]
Law Raghu SamarthRagini Prajwal [17]
French Biriyani Pannaga Bharana Danish Sait, Sal Yusuf [18]
2022 One Cut Two Cut Vamshidhar Bhograj Danish Sait, Samyukta Hornad [19]
Family Pack Arjun Kumar S Likith Shetty, Amrutha Iyengar [20]
Man of the Match D. Satya Prakash Nataraj S Bhat, Dharmanna Kadooru [21]
Gandhada Gudi Amoghavarsha JS Puneeth Rajkumar, Amoghavarsha JS [22]
2023 Aachar & Co Sindhu Srinivasa MurthySindhu Srinivasa Murthy, Ashok,Sudha Belawadi and others [23] [24]
2024 O2 †Raaghav Nayak
Prashanth Raj		 Ashika Rangnath, Praveen Tej and OthersTo be released on 19 April 2024 [25]

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