Janardhan Chikkanna is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in

Kannada cinema Kannada cinema, also known as Sandalwood, or Chandanavana, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Kannada language widely spoken in the state of Karnataka. The 1934 film '' Sati Sulochana'' directe ...

. He rose to fame following the success of his directorial debut ''

Gultoo ''Gultoo'' is a 2018 Indian Kannada language cyber-thriller film written and directed by Janardhan Chikkanna. under the banner Vivid Films, the movie's music is scored by Amit Anand. Naveen Shankar and Sonu Gowda star along with Rangayana Rag ...

.'' Gultoo — produced by Prashanth Reddy and Devaraj Ramanna under the Vivid Films banner.

Career

Janardhan took to films after completing his graduation in

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

and says that his course influenced the subject of Gultoo. He went on to do a course at the MGR Government Film and Television Institute. When he passed out of there in 2015, Janardhan was sure that he didn’t want to assist any director or knock on producers’ doors with a script in hand. He made his directorial debut in 2018 with ''Gultoo'', that throws light on individual privacy and our vulnerability online, a

cyber crime A cybercrime is a crime that involves a computer or a computer network.Moore, R. (2005) "Cyber crime: Investigating High-Technology Computer Crime," Cleveland, Mississippi: Anderson Publishing. The computer may have been used in committing ...

thriller. The movie stars Naveen Shankar,

Sonu Gowda Sonu Gowda is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Kannada-language films. She made her debut in ''Inthi Ninna Preethiya'' and appeared in films including ''Paramesha Panwala'' and ''Gulama''. She has also starred in Tamil and a few Mala ...

Rangayana Raghu Kotturu Chikkarangappa Raghunath (born 17 April 1965), known by his screen name Rangayana Raghu, is an Indian film and stage actor, known for his work in Kannada cinema. Portraying mostly comic and negative-shaded characters, he has appeared ...

and Avinash.

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