Rishi is an Indian film actor, who works mainly in Kannada cinema. An engineering graduate, he was an active theatre artist before venturing into the Kannada film industry. He rose to fame with the 2017 blockbuster film Operation Alamelamma.^[1]

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Early life and education[edit]

Rishi was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India and brought up in Mysore, Karnataka, India. His Father Sri K C Nagaraj was a bank official working in Kaveri Grameena Bank and his mother Anala Nagaraj is a home maker. He did his schooling from St Joseph's Primary School, Mysore and Pre - University course from Marimallappa 's College, Mysore. He went on to attend Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, pursuing a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering.^[2]

During his engineering days, Rishi developed a keen interest in acting and started performing with various amateur theatre groups in Mysore. He was in charge of the dramatics team at his college and also worked as a Radio Jockey outside.^[3]

Career[edit]

Through campus placement upon graduation, he got a job in a company and entered a brief corporate stint. Following this, he quit his job to become an entrepreneur in the retail interiors and merchandising field.

He then got an opportunity to appear in T.N Sitaram's Mahaparva.Rishi continued to perform with established theatre groups in Bangalore until one day, he got an opportunity to act in a television serial Anuroopa,^[4] which was telecast on Star Suvarna. His character portrayal in the serial won him Best Actor consecutively for two years at the Star Suvarna Parivar awards.

Kannada Debut and Recognition

In 2016, director Suni of Simple Agi Ondh Love Story fame noticed his acting and cast him for his thriller comedy film Operation Alamelamma.^[5][6] The film became one of the major blockbuster hits of 2017,^[7] also releasing in countries like USA and Europe.^[8][9] Rishi gained wide acclaim for his debut lead role of Purmy,^[10] a vegetable vendor. His next release was in 2019 named Kavaludaari which was directed by Hemeanth Rao of Godhi Banna Sadharna Maykattu fame and produced by Puneeth Rajkumar under his production house PRK Productions. The fim became a blockbustter hit and Rishi gained huge appreciation for his role as Inspector K.S.Shyam from both critics and as well as by audience.^[11][12]

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He is currently finished shooting for Flip Flop which is being produced by Tamil actor and producer Dhanush.^{[13][14][15][16]}He is also acting in Sarvajanikarige Suvarnavakasha , Ramanavatara , Silk Sidda and Galipata 2 which is being directed by Yograj Bhatt

Filmography[edit]

Television[edit]

Films[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Operation Alamelamma movie review: Get abducted for fun and entertainment'. deccanchronicle.com/. 23 July 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
2. ^'As an actor, you are forced to be on your toes at all times: Rishi — Times of India'. The Times of India. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
3. ^'Thriller nights for Rishi'. deccanchronicle.com/. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
4. ^Daithotal, Madhu (19 December 2016). 'TV has a reach that even films aspire to garner: Rishi'. The Times of India.
5. ^'Rishi set to make Sandalwood debut with 'Operation Alamelamma''. The News Minute. 30 June 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
6. ^'Rishi All Set For 'Operation Alamelamma''. Desimartini. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
7. ^Upadhyaya, Prakash. 'Suni's Operation Alamelamma emerges victorious at the Sandalwood box office'. International Business Times, India Edition. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
8. ^'Kannada thriller 'Operation Alamelamma' theatrical rights bagged by makers of 'Raajakumara''. The News Minute. 13 May 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
9. ^'Namma global invasion!'. deccanchronicle.com/. 13 August 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
10. ^'Director Suni's 'Operation Alamelamma' to release next month'. The News Minute. 16 June 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
11. ^Prasad S, Shyam (23 June 2017). 'RISHI BAGS SECOND FILM BEFORE HIS FIRST IS OUT'.
12. ^'Rishi as police officer in thrilling Kavalu Daari'. The New Indian Express. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
13. ^'Rishi to lead in Dhanush's Sandalwood debut'. The New Indian Express. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
14. ^'After Malayalam, Dhanush eyes the Kannada industry'. The New Indian Express. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
15. ^'Rishi's next will see Dhanush's backing — Times of India'. The Times of India. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
16. ^'Dhanush ropes in 'Operation Alamelamma' star for Sandalwood debut'. The News Minute. 10 October 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.

External links[edit]

• Rishi on IMDb

Lakshmi Baramma is a Kannada serial that airs on Colors Kannada (previously ETV Kannada) from Monday to Saturday at 7:30 pm. It premiered on 4 March 2013 and is one of the top ETV Kannada serials of 2013. It is the second longest running Kannada serial.^[1]

It is dubbed in Odia and telecasted as 'Laxmi Pratima' in Colors Odia and remade in Tamil as 'Vanthal Sridevi' and is telecasted in Colors Tamil.^[2][3][4]

Plot[edit]

Laxmi is an innocent village girl. She was an orphan and was raised by her grandmother. She had an evil step mother and her two sons. However she had a good bonding with Nanjundi, her youngest step brother. After marrying Chandan realises that her husband was in love with his girlfriend Shruthi. She wishes not to be an obstacle in his path and runs away from him. But the situation lands her to the house of Shruthi. On the other hand, Shruthi unknowing the truth about laxmi accepts her as her as her younger sister and names her Chinnu much against the wishes of her mother. The twist in the tale arrives when Shruthi is Chandan's cousin and their marriage fixed. Knowing this truth she consoles herself and decides to look into the marriage arrangements. At this time her marriage truth is discovered by Parvathy, her mother-in-law. Ranjith his uncle also aware of this truth. Kumudha, Chandan's evil aunt along with her secret husband Manoj tries to acquire the whole property in her name. The family is unaware of her evil plans. Kailash, Shruthi's father discovers Kumudha's truth but he was beaten to death by her husband. He was timely saved by laxmi. Kumudha who is furious on laxmi is furious and learns her hidden marriage secret. Now she plays a mind game with her. Kailash slowly recovers and then he warns Kumudha. Later even he gets to know the truth of Laxmi. Parvathi and Kailash decide to tell this truth to Shruthi and finally everybody comes to know the truth. Shruthi's mother Kalpana develops hatred against her. Using this Kumudha plays mind games with the family. Finally Kumudha is exposed by Kailash, Ranjith and Laxmi. At the mean time Shruthi was pregnant. Her child is believed to be dead. Later they get another baby through invitro-fertilization process and laxmi becomes the surrogate mother. Later the earlier baby which was presumed to be dead was alive and it was captured and raised by Kumudha. After much hardship, the elder baby is back with the family and it was named Siri. The second child with laxmi as a surrogate mother was named Adhya. At this time a new character enter the lives of this joint family named Aniruddh. He gains the trust of the family and later he kidnaps Shruthi and makes her forget her past convinces she as Shravya. On the other hand, the family believes Shruthi is died. Laxmi discovers Shruthi is alive and she is now identified as Shravya. She is not believed and she leaves the house to return with her sister. The Chandu family disguises themselves as Chakravarthi Family, a wealthy business family from London and enter Bhargavi Devi's house. Ramachandra Rayaru disguises as Vasanth Chakravarthy,the eldest member of the family.his wife Sulochana as Shalini Chakravarthi.Their daughter Kalpana as Sumalatha Chakravarthi and her husband Kailash as Amarnath Chakravarthi (S/O Shalini and Vasanth Chakravarthi). Ramu disguises as Sudeep Chakravarthi(S/O Sumalatha and Amarnath) and Chandu as car driver, Yuvraj Singh. Shveta as Sushma, daughter of Shalini and Vasanth. Ranjith disguises as Shvetananda Swamiji, The rest of the plot revolves around how Laxmi, Chandan along with the family bring Shruthi back into their lives and remind her of the past.

Cast[edit]

• Chandu Gowda as Chandan/Chandu/Yuvraj Singh
• Kavitha Gowda /Rashmi Prabhakar as Lakshmi/Lacchi/Chinnu
• Neha Gowda as Shruthi/Gombe/Shravya
• Deepa Ravishankar as Parvathi, Chandu's mother
• Nethra sindya as Kumudha, Shruti's aunt
• Jeevan Neenasam as Ranjith/Shvetananda Swamiji
• Vijay(Serial actor) as Ramu/Sudeep Chakravarthi
• Navya gowda as Shwetha/Sushma
• Lakshmi Siddaiyya as Kalpana/Sumalatha Chakravarthi
• Jayabalu as Sulochana/Shalini Chakravarthi
• Dattanna as Ramachandra Rayaru/Vasanth Chakravarthi
• Rohit Nagesh as Manoj
• Hmt Vijay as Boregowda
• Vikram Vasudeva Rao as Nanjundi
• Vasanth kumar as Kailash/Amarnath Chakravarthi
• Niranjan Kumar as Basava
• Chi Bharath as Giri
• Kamalashri as Thathamma
• Lakshmi Sanjay as Revathi
• Ramaswamy as Yeshwanth
• Baby Monisha as Siri
• Anil Kumar Tiptur
• Rohith Rangaswamy as Anirudh/Arun, Bhargavi Devi's brother
• Roopesh Kumar as Guru, Bhargavi Devi's brother
• Nandini guru as Bhargavi Devi
• Soumya Bhat as Medha, Bhargavi Devi's daughter

References[edit]

1. ^'More-spellbinding-soap-gathas'. Outlook.
2. ^'Laxmi Baramma Serial'. Serial Zone.
3. ^'ETV Kannada Launches Lakshmi Baaramma'.
4. ^'TOI-Will second marriage bring bad luck to Chandan?'.