Tennis Krishna

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Tennis Krishna
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Born (1961-06-05) 5 June 1961 (age 62)
Bengaluru
OccupationActor

Tennis Krishna is a Kannada actor and comedian. Tennis Krishna has acted in over 600 movies and has a record of acting in 100 movies with comedy actress Rekha Das. [1]

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Life

His background is from Kannada theatre.[ citation needed ] Since Krishna was a common name in the film industry, he got the moniker Tennis Krishna to differentiate himself since he used to be a tennis coach. [2]

He acted with Kannada actor Dr. Rajkumar in the movie Jeevanachaitra .[ citation needed ] His first released Kannada, in a lead role for the first film was Appa Nanjappa Maga Gunjappa in 1994. After the success of Appa Nanjappa Maga Gunajappa, Tennis Krishna acted in many more films mainly in comedy roles including Bannada Neralu and Ond Chance Kodi . [3]

Filmography

As actor

As singer

Television

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References

  1. "Century pair, Rekha Das and Tennis Krishna". indiaglitz.com. 3 October 2017.
  2. "Comedian 'Tennis' Krishna steps into politics, joins AAP in Karnataka". 4 August 2022.
  3. "Tennis Krishna filmography". Oneindia. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2012.