Sunil Kumar Desai

Sunil Kumar Desai
Born (1955-11-22) November 22, 1955
Bijapur, Karnataka, India
Occupation Film director, producer and writer

Sunil Kumar Desai (Kannada: ಸುನೀಲ್ ಕುಮಾರ್ ದೇಸಾಯಿ) is a Kannada film director. In most of his movies, Desai blends art and commercial cinema. He has written and directed suspense/thrillers and love stories. He has won the Karnataka state awards (4 times) in the Best Screenplay & Best Dialogs categories. He has also won the Filmfare awards 4 times. Desai worked with South Indian musicians like Illayaraja, Hamsalekha & Gunasingh.

Sunil Kumar Desai was born in 1955 in Bijapur, North Karnataka. He had his primary education in Bijapur and higher education in Pune. He started his film-career as an assistant to Kashinath, a renowned writer, actor, director and producer of many Kannada films. Desai continued to work as an assistant to Suresh Heblikar, an actor, director and environmentalist. He was also involved in a couple of controversies with actor Vishnuvadhan as the latter did not like the way Desai explained the scenes and the pace with which the movies were going.

Filmography

Year Film Title Genre Cast Notes
1989 Tarka A murder mystery Shankar Nag, Devaraj Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada
Based on Agatha Christie's The Unexpected Guest
Remade in Tamil as Puriyaadha Pudhir
Also remade in Malayalam
1990 Utkarsha Psyco-Thriller Dr.Ambareesh, Devaraj Based on Jack the Ripper
1993 Sangharsha Thriller Dr.Vishnuvardhan, Geetha
1994 Nishkarsha Real time thriller Dr.Vishnuvardhan, Ananth Nag Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay
Inspired by Die Hard
1995 Beladingala Baale Love story Ananth Nag Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada
Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay
Based on Yandamuri Veerendranath's Telugu novel Vennelalo Aadapilla's Kannada translation by Vamshi
1996 Nammoora Mandara Hoove Love story Ramesh Aravind, Shivrajkumar, Prema Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay
Remade in Tamil as Kangalin Vaarthaigal
1998 Prema Raga Haadu Gelathi Love story Shivrajkumar, Ramesh Aravind, Nivedita Jain, Srinath Based on a story by Yandamuri Veerendranath
1999 Prathyartha Thriller Ramesh Aravind, Raghuvaran, Sudeep Based on Nick of Time
2000 Sparsha Love story Sudeep, Sudha Rani Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada
2002 Parva A musical love Story Dr.Vishnuvardhan, Prema
2002 Marma Suspense thriller Prema
2006 Ramya Chaitrakaala A village love story Sandeep, Nanditha, Manasi
2007 Kshana Kshana A suspense thriller Dr.Vishnuvardhan, Aditya, Prema Inspired by Sidney Sheldon's first novel The Naked Face
2011 Sarigama Romance Prajwal Devaraj, Sunil Raoh Shelved
2015 Thandana Thandanana Romance Shelved[1]
2016 ...Re Comedy Ramesh Aravind, Harshika Poonacha, Ananth Nag Reported to be thematically similar to Badal Sircar's play Ballabpurer Roopkatha[2]

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