Sunil Kumar Desai

Sunil Kumar Desai
Born (1955-11-22) 22 November 1955
Bijapur, Karnataka, India
Occupation Film director, producer and writer
Years active 1989–2007
2016–present

Sunil Kumar Desai is an Indian film director, writer and producer, known for his work in Kannada cinema. In most of his films, 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 Dialogues categories. He has also won the Filmfare awards 4 times. Desai worked with South Indian musicians like Illayaraja, Hamsalekha and Gunasingh.

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, and later Suresh Heblikar.

Career

Desai made film debut as a director with Tarka in 1989. He subsequent films Nishkarsha, Beladingala Baale and Nammoora Mandara Hoove earned him a reputation as the most innovative and influential directors of the 1990s.[1]

Filmography

Title Year Director Producer Screenwriter Notes
Tarka1989Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay
Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada
Based on Agatha Christie's The Unexpected Guest
Remade in Tamil as Puriyaadha Pudhir and in Hindi as Chupp
Utkarsha1990Based on Jack the Ripper
Sangharsha1993
Nishkarsha1994Karnataka State Film Award for Best Film
Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay
Inspired by Die Hard
Beladingala Baale1995Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada
Karnataka State Film Award for Best Dialogue
Based on Yandamuri Veerendranath's Telugu novel Vennelalo Aadapilla's Kannada translation by Vamsy
Nammoora Mandara Hoove1996Remade in Tamil as Kangalin Vaarthaigal
Prema Raga Haadu Gelathi1998
Prathyartha1999Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay
Based on Nick of Time
Sparsha2000Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada
Parva2002
Marma2002
Ramya Chaitrakaala2006
Kshana Kshana2007Inspired by Sidney Sheldon's first novel The Naked Face
...Re2016Reported to be thematically similar to Badal Sircar's play Ballabpurer Roopkatha[2]
Udgharsha2017Filming[3]

References

  1. ↑ "I got offers, but from the wrong kind of people". The Times of India. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  2. ↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/kannada/movies/news/Lucky-to-play-challenging-roles-Ananth-Nag/articleshow/51175447.cms
  3. ↑ "Sai Dhansika: Placing scripts above the rest". Deccan Chronicle. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2017.

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