Directing
Anup Bhandari
Place of birth
Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Known for
Directing
Credits
17 titles
A software engineer-turned-filmmaker Anup Bhandari was born to Rathna Bhandari and director Sudhakar Bhandari. After completing his engineering from the Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering & Technology (VVIET), Mysore, India, Anup went on the write and direct his debut project RangiTaranga (2015) which received critical acclaim post its release. With the movie being one of the most successful Kannada movies of the year, it won several accolades including the Filmfare Award for Best Film. Anup who had also written the songs and composed for the movie won the Filmfare Award for Best Director and the IIFA Utsavam Awards for Best Music Director and Best Lyrics. He is associated with the bilingu…
Known for
6.9Mysterious events begin to unfold after a reclusive novelist and his wife move back to her ancestral village, followed by a journalist.
Rangi Taranga
2015
6.1Almost half a century ago, a remote village in the middle of a tropical rain forest starts witnessing a series of unexplainable events which they attribute to the supernatural. Vikrant Rona, An eccentric police officer, is assigned to solve the mystery. A mysterious game unfolds where everyone in the village is a potential victim and everyone is a suspect.
Vikrant Rona
2022
NROnce upon a time in 2209 A.D.
BRB: First Blood
2027
a short film portrays a beautifully crafted love story between hearing-impaired man and a speech-impaired woman.
Words
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An upcoming film. Plot details TBA.
Untitled Anup Bhandari Film
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NRUpcoming Kannada Film directed by Anup Bhandari and presented by Kichcha Sudeep
Ashwatthama
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Film credits
2010s · 3 titles
6.9Mysterious events begin to unfold after a reclusive novelist and his wife move back to her ancestral village, followed by a journalist.
Rangi Taranga
2015
6.2Rajaratha is a 2018 Indian Kannada romantic comedy film written and directed by Anup Bhandari who also composed the film's music. It stars Nirup Bhandari and Avantika Shetty in the lead roles in their second collaboration with the director after the success of RangiTaranga. The film was dubbed in Telugu as Rajaratham (English: Royal Chariot) with Rana Daggubati replacing Puneeth Rajkumar as the narrator. Arya, who made his debut in Kannada cinema for the first time with the film, features in a supporting role alongside P. Ravishankar and Sruthi Hariharan.
Rajaratha
2018
6.2Rajaratha is a 2018 Indian Kannada romantic comedy film written and directed by Anup Bhandari who also composed the film's music. It stars Nirup Bhandari and Avantika Shetty in the lead roles in their second collaboration with the director after the success of RangiTaranga. The film was dubbed in Telugu as Rajaratham (English: Royal Chariot) with Rana Daggubati replacing Puneeth Rajkumar as the narrator. Arya, who made his debut in Kannada cinema for the first time with the film, features in a supporting role alongside P. Ravishankar and Sruthi Hariharan.
Rajaratha
2018
Behind the camera
6.9Mysterious events begin to unfold after a reclusive novelist and his wife move back to her ancestral village, followed by a journalist.
Rangi Taranga
2015
6.1Almost half a century ago, a remote village in the middle of a tropical rain forest starts witnessing a series of unexplainable events which they attribute to the supernatural. Vikrant Rona, An eccentric police officer, is assigned to solve the mystery. A mysterious game unfolds where everyone in the village is a potential victim and everyone is a suspect.
Vikrant Rona
2022
6.1Almost half a century ago, a remote village in the middle of a tropical rain forest starts witnessing a series of unexplainable events which they attribute to the supernatural. Vikrant Rona, An eccentric police officer, is assigned to solve the mystery. A mysterious game unfolds where everyone in the village is a potential victim and everyone is a suspect.
Vikrant Rona
2022
NROnce upon a time in 2209 A.D.
BRB: First Blood
2027
NROnce upon a time in 2209 A.D.
BRB: First Blood
2027
a short film portrays a beautifully crafted love story between hearing-impaired man and a speech-impaired woman.
Words
—
a short film portrays a beautifully crafted love story between hearing-impaired man and a speech-impaired woman.
Words
—
An upcoming film. Plot details TBA.
Untitled Anup Bhandari Film
—
An upcoming film. Plot details TBA.
Untitled Anup Bhandari Film
—
NRUpcoming Kannada Film directed by Anup Bhandari and presented by Kichcha Sudeep
Ashwatthama
—
NRUpcoming Kannada Film directed by Anup Bhandari and presented by Kichcha Sudeep
Ashwatthama
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6.2Rajaratha is a 2018 Indian Kannada romantic comedy film written and directed by Anup Bhandari who also composed the film's music. It stars Nirup Bhandari and Avantika Shetty in the lead roles in their second collaboration with the director after the success of RangiTaranga. The film was dubbed in Telugu as Rajaratham (English: Royal Chariot) with Rana Daggubati replacing Puneeth Rajkumar as the narrator. Arya, who made his debut in Kannada cinema for the first time with the film, features in a supporting role alongside P. Ravishankar and Sruthi Hariharan.
Rajaratha
2018
6.2Rajaratha is a 2018 Indian Kannada romantic comedy film written and directed by Anup Bhandari who also composed the film's music. It stars Nirup Bhandari and Avantika Shetty in the lead roles in their second collaboration with the director after the success of RangiTaranga. The film was dubbed in Telugu as Rajaratham (English: Royal Chariot) with Rana Daggubati replacing Puneeth Rajkumar as the narrator. Arya, who made his debut in Kannada cinema for the first time with the film, features in a supporting role alongside P. Ravishankar and Sruthi Hariharan.
Rajaratha
2018