Senna Hegde is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in

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and

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cinema. His debut film was the 2016 docudrama '' 0-41*'' and his second film was the romantic comedy, '' Katheyondu Shuruvagide''.

Biography

Senna was born in the town of

Kanhangad Kanhangad () is a town, located in the Kasaragod District, state of Kerala, India. Location The area contains villages around Kanhangad town with Kasaragod as the northern border, Nileshwar, popularly known as the 'cultural town' of Kasar ...

, in northern

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. He graduated with a Master's Degree in Information Technology from

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, Brisbane, and went on to work as a business analyst in the United States for four years. Then he moved to the Middle East, where for the next eight years he worked for various international advertising agencies, telling stories in 30-second spots. He returned to India in 2014. Senna worked on

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's script team for his 2014 film '' Ulidavaru Kandanthe''. Back in his hometown, Senna turned his hand to making his own films. He wrote the script for his debut feature film, '' 0-41*'', in three days. A docudrama set in Kanhangad, it follows the lives of players on two rival volleyball teams. With a budget of , a crew of four, and a Canon 5D Mark III, he shot the 91-minute film over nine days. The six-member cast were not professional actors, which gave their performance what Anurag Kashyap described as an "innocence". The film made its world premiere at the 11th 'Cinema on the Bayou' film festival in Lafayette, Louisiana on 26 January 2016. It has played at other festivals, but has not been released commercially. Senna's second film, '' Katheyondu Shuruvagide'' is a

Kannada-language Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native sp ...

romantic comedy starring

Diganth Diganth Manchale (born 28 December 1983), mononymously known as Diganth, is an Indian actor and former model who primarily works in Kannada films. Diganth made his acting debut in ''Miss California'' in 2006. He is a recipient of one SIIMA Awa ...

and

Pooja Devariya Pooja Devariya (born 29 July 1991) is an Indian theatre and film actor as well as a performance coach who works primarily in Tamil films, alongside a Kannada film. She started her film acting career with Selvaraghavan’s Mayakkam Enna, and has ...

, with Ashwin Rao Pallaki and Shreya Anchan in supporting roles. On the occasion of

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in 2020, he announced his next Malayalam film ''

Thinkalazhcha Nishchayam Thinkalazhcha Nishchayam is a 2021 Indian Malayalam-language, comedy-drama film written and directed by Senna Hegde. The film won the Best Feature Film in Malayalam in the 68th National Film Awards. The film was chosen as the Second Best Film ...

''. The film won the

Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Film The Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Film is an award presented annually at the Kerala State Film Awards of India to the second best film in Malayalam cinema. The awards are managed directly by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy under ...

and Senna Hegde received the award for

Kerala State Film Award for Best Story The Kerala State Film Award for Best Story is an honour, begun in 1969, presented annually at the Kerala State Film Award of India to a writer for the best story in a Malayalam film. Until 1997, the awards were managed directly by the Departm ...

in the

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. The film also won the Best Feature Film in Malayalam in the

68th National Film Awards The 68th National Film Awards ceremony was an event during which the Directorate of Film Festivals presented its annual National Film Awards to honour the best films of 2020 in Indian cinema. The awards ceremony was originally slated to be held ...

Filmography

Accolades

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hegde, Senna People from Kasaragod district Kannada screenwriters Living people Kannada film directors Malayalam film directors Year of birth missing (living people)