List of Upcoming Kannada films of 2014

Title	Director	Cast	Music	Notes
Agraja	Srinandan	Jaggesh, Darshan, Kamna Jethmalani, Sanjjanaa		Post Production
Ajith	Mahesh Babu	Chiranjeevi Sarja, Nikki Galrani		Post Production
Angulimala	Baraguru Ramachandrappa	Sai Kumar, Raghu Mukherjee, Jayanthi	V. Manohar	Post Production
Aryan	D. Rajendra Babu Chi Guru Dutt	Shivarajkumar, Ramya	Jassie Gift	Filming
Ashokavana	Sam J. Chaitanya	Mohan, Tejaswini Prakash, Komal Kumar		Delayed
Bahuparak	Sunil Kumar	Srinagar Kitty, Meghana Raj	Bharath BJ	Filming
Bhagyaraj	Deepak MadhuvanaHalli	Mahesh, Jahnavi Kamath	Anoop Seelin	Filming
Boys	Shankare Gowda	Malashri, P. Ravi Shankar, Tabla Nani, Danny, Manju, Manoj, Rajeev, Maaya, Kajal	Arjun Janya	Filming
Brahma	R. Chandru	Upendra, Pranitha, Sonu Sood, Rangayana Raghu, Sayaji Shinde	Gurukiran	Filming
Brahma Vishnu Maheshwara	Swaroop Swara	Anjan Dev, Preetham, Sunil Baldar, Sanjana Prakash, Meghana Appayya, Aishwarya, Jeevitha	Anoop Seelin	Filming
Buddhu	Guruvendra Shetty	Vardhan, Pranitha Subhash		Filming
Chandralekha	Om Prakash Rao	Chiranjeevi Sarja, Shanvi, Sadhu Kokila, Nagashekar	J.B	Completed
Cobra	H.Vasu	Duniya Vijay, Sonu Chhabra, Maheen	Dharma Vish	Pre Production
Darling	Santhu	Yogesh, Muktha	Arjun Janya	Filming
Dil Rangeela	Preetham Gubbi	Ganesh, Rachita Ram, Priyanka Rao, Rangayana Raghu, Yamuna	Arjun Janya	Filming
Dove	Santhu	Anoop, Aditi Rao, Rakesh Adiga, Madalasa Sharma, Rangayana Raghu, Avinash, Jai Jagadish	Arjun Janya	Post Production
Dosti	Anand V	Suryaa, Prithvi, Niharika Mallya	Nagendra Kumar. C.R	Post Production
E-Preeti	Shilpa Priya Jagadish	Diganth, Tejaswini Prakash, Bharath Babu		Filming
Fair and Lovely	Raghuram	Prem Kumar, Shweta Shrivatsav	V. Harikrishna	Announced
Huchudgaru	RJ Pradeepa	Chetan Chandra, Aditi Rao, Prathap, Amith, Deva		Post production
Jamboo Savari	Venugopal	Prajwal Devaraj, Nikki Galrani, Shobharaj, Achyuth Rao		Announced
Kontract	Sameer	Arjun Sarja, J. D. Chakravarthy, Minissha Lamba, Mallika Sherawat		Filming
Looty	Girish Kampalapura	Isha Koppikar, Dhruva, Shwetha Pandith, Robot Ganesh	Dharma Vish	Filming
Maanikya	Sudeep	Sudeep, V. Ravichandran, Varalaxmi Sharathkumar, Ranya, Ramya Krishna, Ashok, P. Ravi Shankar	Arjun Janya	Filming
Maduve Impossible	Pannagha Bharan	Shivarajkumar, Radhika Pandit		Filming
Manjina Hani	V. Ravichandran	V. Ravichandran, Haripriya	V. Ravichandran	Post-Production
Matte Satyagraha	B. Shivanand	Yogesh, Neha Patil, Dattanna		Filming
Meenakshi	Shridhar Hegde	Raghu Mukherjee, Shubha Poonja, Tabla Nani, Geetha	Vani Harikrishna	Pre Production
Neer Dose	Vijaya Prasad	Jaggesh, Ramya, Suman Ranganathan, Dattanna	Anoop Seelin	Filming[9]
Ninnindale	Jayanth C. Paranjee	Puneeth Rajkumar, Erica Fernandes		Filming
Ondu Roopayalli Eradu Preethi	Dayal Padmanabhan	Vijay Raghavendra, Ramya Barna, Sandeep		Filming
Onduralli Obba Raja	Dinakar Thoogudeep	Diganth, Rachita Ram	V. Harikrishna	Filming
Parvathi Pura	Ram Prasad	Raj Vardhan, Navya, Sai Kumar, Namitha		Filming
Putta	Om Prakash Rao	Duniya Vijay		Delayed
Ragini IPS	Anand P Raju	Ragini Dwivedi		Post Production[
Rangan Style	Prashanth S	Pradeep, Kannika Tiwari, Sudeep, Bharti Singh, Rekha Das, Sadhu Kokila, Sharath Lohitashwa,Gurukiran, Tabla Nani	Gurukiran	Post production
Rebel	S. V. Rajendra Singh Babu	Aditya Singh, Sanjjanaa, Preetika Rao	Jassie Gift / Dharma Vish (background score)	Post Production
Sapnon Ki Rani	A.R.Babu	Srujan Lokesh, Umesh, Sadhu Kokila	Dharma Vish	Filming
Shivajinagara	P. N. Satya	Duniya Vijay, Avinash	Jassie Gift	Filming
Superro Ranga	Sadhu Kokila	Upendra, Kriti Kharbanda, Bullet Prakash, Doddanna		Filming
Thandaana Thandanaana	Sunil Kumar Desai	Ramesh Aravind, Ananth Nag, Rangayana Raghu, Ramesh Bhat, Maithreyi, Kavitha Priya, Shivaram, Kishore, Tennis Krishna	Hamsalekha	Filming
Thippajji Circle		Pooja Gandhi, Dhruva Sharma, Dr. Suresh Sharma, Srinivasa Murthy	Bharani Sri	Filming
Tunturu	Mussanje Mahesh	Ramesh Aravind, Anil Gowda, Anu Prabhakar, Rishika Singh		Filming
Vasundhara	T. S. Nagabharana	Aishwarya Nag, Sudharani, Rajesh, Jugari Avinash	Stephen Prayog	Filming
Viraat	H. Vasu	Darshan, Isha Chawla, Chaitra Chandranath		Filming

Karnataka Actors who got Industry crossovers and moved to other Industries

Kannada-Tulu native artists who migrated from Karnataka, and gained notability in other language films like Kollywood and Tollywood.

V Shantaram Mugur Sundar Guru Dutt Prabhakar Hamsalekha Ramesh Aravind Raju Sundaram Raghu Dixit Gurukiran Harikrishna Sunder Ramu Vinay Rai N. Krishna Kishore Adharvaa Nagendra Prasad Suman Talwar B. Saroja Devi Nagesh Ramki Sudeep Balasubramaniem Thamarai Kitty Moulee Vinu Chakravarthy Ajay Rathnam Rajesh Chandrasekhar Vikraman Thiagarajan Mahesh Shiva Prasanna Prem Karathe Raja Selvaah Anandan Abavanan

Upendra Prabhu Deva P. C. Sreeram K. V. Anand SP. Muthuraman Chimbu Deven Vijay Prakash Murali Prakash Raj Mohan Arjun Vedhika Pranitha Pooja Hegde Prakash Rai Ramya Malavika Pooja Aishwarya Rai Shilpa Shetty Sunil Shetty Prema Soundarya Anushka Shetty Rajini kanth Vishnuvardhan Deepika padukone T. R. Sundaram P. U. Chinnappa T.S.Balaiya V. S. Raghavan V. K. Ramasamy B. R. Panthulu

History of kannada cinema - 1970s and 1980s

The 1970s and the 1980s are often considered to be the Golden Age of Kannada cinema. It was also the period that witnessed the birth of alternate cinema or parallel cinema. Kannada cinema spearheaded the parallel cinema movement in India along with Hindi, Bengali and Malayalam cinemas.Dr. Rajkumar had already acquired demigod status in Karnataka by then. Rajkumar concentrated only on Kannada and confined himself to the Kannada film industry until his last movie, Shabdavedhi. It is because of his passion for Kannada films that he ruled KFI as its undisputed leader from 1954-2006. He is considered the greatest actor that Kannada cinema has seen mainly because of the ease with which he enacted historical, mythological, social, adventurous and comedic roles.

B. V. Karanth's Chomana Dudi (an evocative film on caste distinctions), Girish Karnad's Kaadu and Girish Kasaravalli's Ghatashraddha spearheaded the Kannada parallel cinema. Vamshavruksha, Prema Karanth's Phaniyamma, Kadu Kudure, Hamsageethe, Accident, Akramana, Mooru Dhaarigalu, Tabarana Kathe,Bannadha Vesha and Puttanna Kanagal's Naagarahaavu were some of the important movies of this era. Dr.Vishnuvardhan and Dr.Ambareesh were the two stars born from the film Naagarahaavu. Dr. Vishnuvardhan went on to become a super star of south India acting in 220 films in 5 main languages of the country.

Dr.Rajkumar and Dr.Vishnuvardhan from then are considered the two pillars of the Kannada Film Industry. They both have been very instrumental in shaping the Kannada Identity.

Shankar Nag made his own mark with the internationally acclaimed Ondanondu Kaladalli and Malgudi Days, along with several commercial hits. Tiger Prabhakar,Ananth Nag, Lokesh, Ashok, Srinath, M. P. Shankar, and Sunder Krishna Urs were other actors who made their own mark in the industry. Puttana Kanagal paved the way for the above mentioned actors as well as Ramakrishna, Kokila Mohan, and Chandrashekar. Lakshmi, Padma Vaasanthi, Geetha, Madhavi, Saritha, and Jayamala were some of the actresses who made their mark.

The late 80's saw the emergence of V. Ravichandran and Shivarajkumar and Ramesh Aravind as top heroes, with a good number of family oriented films made during this period. Rajendra Singh Babu, D. Rajendra Babu, V. Somashekhar, Sai Prakash and M.S Rajshekhar are some of the best directors of this era. H. R. Bhargava directed numerous popular Kannada movies during the 1980s and 1990s.

Ravichandran and Hamsalekha successfully created a blend exclusively for youth. Ravichandran brought in actresses from other industries. The same era also marked the beginning of many actresses such as Bhavya, Mahalaxmi, Sudha Rani, Tara, Malashri, Anjali, Vanitha Vasu, Anjana, and Shruthi.

Kannada cinema is known among Indian cinemas for introducing the item song/Cabary dance.

History of Kannada Cinema

In 1934, the first Kannada talkie, Sati Sulochana, appeared in theatres, followed by Bhakta Dhruva (aka Dhruva Kumar).

Both Sati Sulochana and Bhakta Dhruva were major successes. Sati Sulochana was shot in Kolhapur at the Chatrapathi studio; most filming, sound recording, and post-production was done in Chennai. It was difficult to find financial backing for new film projects in the region, thus very few movies inKannada were released during the early years of Indian sound cinema.

Gubbi Veeranna could be considered the doyen of Kannada cinema during the mid to late forties. In 1949, Honnappa Bhagavathar, who had earlier acted in Gubbi Veeranna's films, produced Bhaktha Kumbara and starred in the lead role along with Pandaribai. In 1955, Honnappa Bhagavatharagain produced a Kannada film, Mahakavi Kalidasa, in which he introduced B. Saroja Devi.

Ku Ra Seetharama Sastry ("Kurasi") was an actor, film director, lyricist, and screen playwright from the mid-forties through the late seventies. Kurasi introduced several artists to Kannada film industry, including Shivaram (Beratha Jeeva) and Shakthi Prasad (Karaga Shakti, father of Kannada,Telugu & Tamil actor/director Arjun).

Narasimharaju and G. V. Iyer decided to form a partnership and produce movies. The partnership lasted for only a couple of movies. Ranadhira Kanteerava was one such successful joint venture. The majority of the films during this decade were either mythological or historical in nature.

The rise of Rajkumar in the early 1950s encouraged the Kannada film industry to make more historical movies. Bedara Kannappa (1954) was the first Kannada movie which completed 365 days at the theatres and it received a letter of appreciation from the central government.