Hemanth Rao began his career in journalism and set his foot into the Kannada Film Industry in 2005. He then worked as an assistant director (AD) with Girish Kasaravalli and Jacob Varghese. The movies in which he worked as an AD are
- Gulabi Talkies (2008)
- Savaari (2009)
- Prithvi (2010)
The Director:
After eight years of experience, he gathered all his creative screenplay writing factor and gave a masterpiece dramatic movie “Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu” in 2016. This was his debut movie starring Anant Nag, Rakshit Shetty, Vasishta N.Simha as the lead characters. This movie was remade in various other regional languages including Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. This movie has won
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Best Actor : Anant Nag
Best Actor in a supporting role : Varsishta N.Simha
Best Actress : Sruthi Hariharan.
IIFA Utsavam
Best Supporting Actor : Rakshit Shetty
Best Actor in Negative Role : Vasishta N.Simha
Best Female Playback Singer : Ichara Rao for “Ayomaya”
SIIMA Awards
Best Debut Director : Hemanth Rao
Best Actor in Negative Role : Vasishta N.Simha
His next film was released in 2019 “Kavaludaari”. It was another hit movie in his filmography with the theatrical run of 50 days. Again his movie was remade in Tamil and Telugu.
The biggest breakthrough of his directorial career came after the release of the astounding romantic drama movie into two parts “Sapta Saagaradaache Ello Side A” and “Sapta Saagaradaache Ello Side B” in 2023. The metaphorical screenplay, traumatising and heartbreaking love story, with intense emotional elements took the audiences to the edge of their seats. Commercially and critically this movie and the whole team receives acknowledgement all over India.
Cast : Rakshit Shetty, Rukmini Vasanth, Chaithra J.Achar
Awards : Filmfare Awards & SIIMA Awards- Best Director : Hemanth Rao
Producer:
Every cinema lover after entering into the film industry will show their interest in producing a good movie. He been associated with few movies as co-producer and they are
1.Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu
2.Humble Politician Nograj
3.Bheemasena Nalamaharaja
Screenplay Writer:
In 2018, the black comedy crime thriller hindi movie “Andhadhun” was released. Hemanth was one of the screenplay writers of that film. It became a box office hit movie with the collection of ₹456 crore. He won the National Award for “Best Screenplay”.
Now, Hemanth has teamed up with actor Shiva Rajkumar in his next project. His recent social media post regarding his dissatisfaction with the IIFA awards has kindled turmoil among his fans.
“The whole IIFA experience was such a massive inconvenience and extremely disrespectful. I’ve been in this business for over a decade and this wasn’t my first stint at award shows. It’s always been a case where the winners are flown in and hosted for the event. For context, I was sat till 3 AM in the morning only to realise there was no award. The same happened to my music director Charan Raj” said Hemanth Rao.
