Upendra

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.

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.

Contents 1 Career as a director 2 Advertisements 3 Filmography 3.1 Director 3.2 Actor 4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Director

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

[edit] Actor

No.	Title	Director	Co-Star	Role	Notes
i	Ananthana Avanthara			Manmatha	Guest appearance
ii	Sshhhh	Upendra			Guest appearance
iii	Operation Hantha	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	produced the film
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	Charmi	Chakri Alias Kusha
24	Bhimoos Bang Bang Kids	Rajendra sing	Ramya
25	Balkani
26	Buddhivantha		6 heroines		Uppi in 11 different getups

Other languages

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

[edit] External links

• OurKarnataka
• UppiAds
• Uppi

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