Name Kashinatha Hathwar Nationality Indian Role Actor | Children Alok Kashinath | |
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Occupation Actor, producer, director, music director Movies Anubhava, Anantana Avantara, Avale Nanna Hendthi, Shhh!, Avane Nanna Ganda Similar People Umashree, Abhinaya, Hamsalekha, Anjali Sudhakar, Upendra Rao | ||
Kashinath is an actor and a director in the Kannada film Industry in India. He is known for giving chances to youngsters (Upendra, Manohar, Sunil Kumar Desai to name a few).
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His films generally touched subjects which were often regarded as taboo in the Indian society and thus attracted the tag of being vulgar by some critics; In fact, most people associate "double meaning" with Kashinath and many even go to the extent of attributing the decline of Kannada Film quality to him. Despite the criticisms his films have influenced the society as well as the industry. Some of his movie dialogues have entered common lingo; for example the extremely popular phrase of "Mangalooru Manjunatha" (from the film 'Love Madi Nodu'). He directed, produced, and acted in many well known films such as Anubhava, Anantana Avantara, Avale Nanna Hendthi and Hendathi Andhray Haygirabeku. His film Avale Nanna Hendthi (1988) was remade in Hindi as Jawani Zindabad (1997) starring Aamir Khan and Farah.
Career
He completed his science graduate degree from Vijaya College, Bangalore. He got exposed to film making by joining troupe called Asima along with contemporary film makers such as Suresh Hebalikar. He started as a director with the movie Aparoopada Athitigalu in the year 1975. His second movie was a suspense thriller Aparichita in the year 1978 which starred well known actors like Suresh Heblikar, Sunderkrishns Urs and others, was also successful. This movie was trend setter movie of the Kannada film industry. He directed the same movie in Hindi titled Be-Shaque starring Mithun Chakraborty. He went on direct 16 movies of varied genres, which were all very successful at the box-office. He first acted in the movie Anubhava, along with debutantes Abinaya and Umashree in the year 1984. The popular song in the movie hodeya doora o jothegara was written by debutanate V. Manohar who later turned to be successful Music director in Kannda Film Industray. Anubhava was remade in Hindi as Anubhav under his direction. Anubhava. He also acted in a movie Avale Nanna Hendthi along with Kannada film industry's top actress Bhavya and Tara, in 1988. This movie which touched the prevalent social issue of dowry burning was a big hit. He went to direct comedies like Avane Nanna Ganda and Manmatharaja in 1989, Chapalachennigaraaya in 1990, shhh directed by Upendra and Hello Yama in 1993. He has acted in more than 40 movies in his career. He has directed 2 Hindi movies and several Telugu movies as well. He was one of the popular heroes of 80s in the Kannada Film Industry.
Kashinath also made many hit movies with Upendra as his assistant director. Upendra himself acknowledges Kashinath as his 'Guru' (Master) and considers working with Kashinath as 'Gurukula' (University) [(Check Hejje Guruthu, produced by TV9 featuring either Kashinath or Upendra/Uppi)].
His recent movie is 12 AM Madyaratri( August 2012) along with his son Abhimanyu( Alok kashinath)
He has an aspiration of lifetime of directing an English film with universal theme/philosophy.
No. of films produced: 11- Kannada, 1-Hindi, 1-Telugu (Total-13)
Filmography
The following is the filmography of Kashinath.
List of films made in other languages
Aparichita was remade in Hindi as Be-Shaque. Anubhava (film) was remade in Hindi as Anubhav and in Malayalam as Aadhyate Anubhavam. Avale Nanna Hendthi was remade in Hindi as Jawani Zindabad . The Concept of Ajagajaanthara was seen in the Hindi movie Judaai.