- Sunil Kumar Desai
Sunil Kumar Desai ( _kn. 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 theKarnataka state awards (4 times) in the Best Screenplay & Best Dialogs categories. He has also won the Filmfare awards 4 times. Desai worked withSouth India n musicians likeIllayaraja ,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 toKashinath , a renowned writer, actor, director and producer of many Kannada films. Desai continued to work as an assistant toSuresh 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.Directed
* Tarka (
1988 ) - A murder mystery
*Utkarsha (1990 ) - Thriller
*Sangarsha (1991 ) - Thriller
*Nishkarsha (1994 ) - Real time thriller
*Beladingala Baale (1996 ) - Love story
*Nammoora Mandara Hoove (1997 ) - Love story
*Prema Raaga Haadu Gelati (1998 ) - Love story
* Sparsha (2000 ) - Love story
* Parva (2001 ) - A musical love Story
* Marma (2002 ) - Suspense thriller
*Ramya Chaitrakaala (2006 ) - A village love storySee also
*
Kashinath
*Upendra
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K49ePt0ETc&feature=PlayList&p=CA806A7A61E3FFE8&index=22 A song from a film directed by Sunil Kumar Desai]
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