Kartik Shetty (also known as Prajval Shetty) is a Mumbai-based Indian

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

and

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. He has acted in the Kannada films ''Yuva'' and ''Karthik''. He directed the Marathi film ''Bhakti Heech Khari Shakti'' and ''Than Than Gopal''

Personal life

Kartik Shetty was born in

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

on 4 July 1987. His father, Vijay B. Shetty, is from

Udupi Udupi (alternate spelling Udipi; also known as Odipu) is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. Udupi is situated about north of the educational, commercial and industrial hub of Mangalore and about west of state capital Bangalore by road. ...

. His mother, Sulatha V. Shetty is from Karkala. He did his early education from DonBosco school Matunga Mumbai and Jai Hind college, Digital Academy-The Film school

. He learned mixed martial arts and Mua Thai in Singapore

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Career

Kartik Shetty made his directorial debut in the Marathi cinema, Marathi film ''Bhakti Heech Khari Shakti'' in 2006 and began his acting career in the

Kannada film 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'' directed ...

Yuva ''Yuva'' ( Youth) is an Indian Hindi-language political thriller film directed by Mani Ratnam and released in 2004. The film was simultaneously shot in Tamil as ''Aaytha Ezhuthu'', and it is loosely based on the life story of George Reddy, a ...

'' in 2009

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''Karthik'' in 2011 and the Kannada film ''Agni Musti'

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Filmography

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shetty, Kartik Indian male film actors Film directors from Mumbai Male actors in Kannada cinema Marathi film directors 1987 births Living people Male actors from Mumbai