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Upendra
Born September 18, 1967(1967-09-18)
Kota, Udupi district, Karnataka
Other name(s) Uppi
Spouse(s) Priyanka Trivedi
Official site http://realstarupendra.com/

Upendra (Kannada: ಉಪೇಂದ್ರ, popularly known as Uppi) (born 18 September 1967) is a Kannada cinema director, actor and script writer. Born in a middle class family, Upendra started his career off with film director Kashinath as a writer and an assistant director. His first directorial venture was Tharle Nanmaga. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Udupi District in Karnataka was created in August 1997. ... , Karnataka (Kannada: , IPA:  ) is a state in the southern part of India. ... “Kannada” redirects here. ... is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... The Cinema of Karnataka encompasses movies made in the Indian state of Karnataka. ... Kashinath is a director in the Kannada film industry in India. ...


In the late 90s he broke into the scene with the extremely violent Om, which also starred actual Bangalore gangsters. He followed this up with A, in which he starred. Upendra, his next film, starred Raveena Tandon, a popular Bollywood actress.His two films "A" and "Upendra" explore human emotions in a new dimension. For other uses, see Bangalore (disambiguation). ... Raveena Tandon (born October 26, 1970 [1] in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a National Film Award winning, Indian Bollywood actress, producer, and a former model. ... Bollywood (Hindi: , Urdu: ) is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. ...

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Career as a director

Tharle Nanmaga, his maiden venture as a director, was declared a major success. This film was Jaggesh's [1] first movie as a lead actor. This cult hit is popular even today for its slapstick comedy and out-of the box narration. His second movie Sshhh with Kumar Govindu in the lead was another box of success. This surprise suspense thriller also starred Kashinath and introduced Kumar Govindu as mainstream hero. Interestingly it has small cameo by Uppi as a brash youth in police costume. His next directorial venture Om was a super hit movie starring Shiv Rajkumar and Prema. This story explored and exposed Bangalore underworld. The movie was controversial because of presence of numerous famous real-life rowdy sheeter(s) (underworld gang members). It had a sound track with hit numbers like "Hey Dinakara", "Mehbooba", "College Kumaru" etc.


Advertisements

In 2004 he ventured into Ad film making through his own startup advertising agency UppiAds. He even acted as brand ambassador for the following:

  • Navaratna Hair Oil
  • UB Pint Beer
  • Nandini Milk
  • Udayavani Daily
  • Big 92.7 FM

Filmography

Director

  • Tharle Nan Maga
  • Sshhh
  • Om
  • Operation Antha
  • A (1998)
  • Swasthik(1999)
  • Upendra(1999)
  • Thamasoma Jyothirgamaya ( Muhurtha on NOV 2007 )

Actor

No. Title Director Co-Star Role Notes
i Ananthana Avanthara Manmatha Guest appearance
ii Sshhhh Upendra Guest appearance
iii Operation Antha Upendra Guest appearance
1 A Upendra Chandini Soorya
2 Upendra Upendra Prema, Damini & Raveena Naanu
3 Preethse D. Rajendra Babu Sonali Bendre Chandru
4 H20 Loknath & Rajaram Priyanka Uday Shankar
5 Superstar Nagathihalli Keerthi Rddy Ricky and Deependra Double Role
6 Nagarahavu Murali Mohan Jyothika Ajay
7 Naanu Naane D.Rajendra Babu Saakshi Shivanand Raja
8 Hollywood Dinesh Babu Felicity Upendra and Sudeendra Double role and also as robot US47
9 Kutumba Naganna Nethanya Vijay
10 Raktha Kanneru Kokila Saadu Ramy Krishna & Abhirami Mohan Screenplay and Dialogues by Upendra
11 Omkara Shivamani Preethi Jinganiya Sathya
12 Gokarna Naganna Rakshitha Sidda
13 Gowramma Naaganna Ramya Venky
15 News K. Mahesh Reema Sen & remuka Menon Guru
16 Autoshankar D.Rajedra Babu Shilpa Shetty & Radhika Shankar
17 Uppi Daada MBBS D. Rajendra Babu Uma Rao Bahaddur Upendra
18 Tandege Takka Maga S. Mahendar Laila & Saakshi Sathya
19 Aishwarya Indrajeeth Lankesh Deepika Padukone Abhishek Hegde
20 Parodi Sai Prakash Neha Vijay
21 Masti Shivamani Jeniffer Siddappaji Alias Masti
22 Anatharu Kokila Saadu Saanghvi Rudra
23 Lavakusha Sai Prakash
24 Bhimoos Bang Bang Kids Rajendra sing Ramya
25 Balkani
26 Buddhivantha 6 heroines 1HERO

Other languages For other uses of A, see A (disambiguation). ...

  • Sathyam (2007) (Tamil)
  • Toss (2007) (Telugu)
  • Kaveri (Tamil)
  • Raa (Telugu)
  • Sarpa
  • Okemata (Telugu)
  • Neethone Vuntanu (Telugu)
  • H2O (Telugu)

Sathyam (Salute in Telugu) is a forthcoming Tamil film project, to be simultaneously shot in Telugu, directed by debutante Rajasekhar, an associate of Suresh Krishna. ... Tamil ( ; IPA ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamils in India and Sri Lanka, with smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. ...

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Upendra is known to have roots from a poor-middle class family.
Upendra needed a producer like Govindu to retrace his career and Govindu needed a director like Upendra to mold his acting skills.
Upendra first of all impressed one and all by his amazing titles like Shhh, OM, A, Swastik etc. OM had a story based on underworld activities.
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The technique adopted by Upendra has become a key point for the success and disproving the audience thinking again and again in the film for at least half a dozen time made everyone to accept him as a'Box office Badshah'.
Upendra became busy and he proved that Kannada film industry is not too small and has the capacity to make crores of business.
Upendra owes Shivrajkumar for the success of it and it is the right thinking on his part as Shivrajkumar with 50 films to his credit has been the 'unshakable hero' today.
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