KANNADA ACTOR UPENDRA BIOGRAPHY

Upendra (popularly known as Uppi by his fans) is a cine actor, director and script writer born on September 18, 1967 in a middle class family at Koteshwara near Kundapura, he belongs to Kannada speaking Kota Brahmin community. Upendra started his career off with film director Kashinath as a writer and an assistant director. His first directorial venture was Tharle Nan Maga. He is the first Indian actor to have ever acted as a robot movie when he made the movie Hollywood directed by Dinesh Babu.

In the late 90s he broke into the scene with the extremely violent Om, which portrayed actual Bangalore gangsters, and this movie is still yet to be released in CDs and DVDs. In contrast to the many Indian movies about heroes with god-like characters, Upendra showed that a hero can have both negative and positive aspects. He followed this up with A, in which he appeared as Surya. Upendra, his next film, starred Raveena Tandon, a popular Bollywood actress. After a decade of acting in Kannada, Telugu and Tamil films, he returned to the role of director with the multi-lingual blockbuster movie Super, which gained acclamation from critics.

The movie was released in 42 theatres in Bengaluru and 150 theatres all over Karnataka and there are plans to dub it to Telugu, Tamil and Hindi. It tells the story of a NRI big shot who plays lot of political drama to help India become a superpower in 2030.On personal note he got married to actress Priyanka who first acted in his movie H2O.He is a proud father of two childrens.