List of Kannada films of 2010

A list of Kannada language films produced in the Kannada film industry in India in 2010.

After the demise of the Vishnuvardhan, the legendary icon of Kannada Cinema by the end of 2009, his posthumous release Aptharakshaka made good number Puneeth's Jackie movie became the highest grossing movie of the year while Sudeep and Ramya's Just Math Maathalli became the musical hit of the year.

Other notable movies include Krishnan Love Story, Krishna Nee Late Aagi Baaro, Kanasemba Kudureyaneri, Super, Ullasa Utsaha and Pancharangi.

Apart from Puneeth, Sudeep, Ramya, with Super Upendra had a good year. Ajay Rao and Radhika Pandit reprising their success streak, Diganth, Neethu and Ganesh had a decent year as well.

This year also saw fresh faces like Nidhi Subbaiah with 2 hits (Pancharangi and KNLAB), Malayalam actress, Bhavana in Jackie and lady superstar Nayanthara making her Kannada Debut with Super. ^[1]

• Films are generally released every Friday
• In addition films can be released on specific festival days.

Released films

A total of 137 films were released in the year 2010

List of released films

The following is a list of films produced in the Kannada film industry in India in 2010, presented in alphabetical order.

Released films

January–June

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Music director	Genre	Notes	Ref
J A N	1st	Minugu	Jaywanth Anthony	Sunil Raoh, Pooja Gandhi, Akshata Raghunath, Ajith Hande	Gopu	Romance		[2]
		Naan Maadiddu Thappa?	N. Veerendra Patil	Kavyashree, Jagadish, Rashmitha, Ninasam Ashwath	Aarya	Drama
		Police Quarters	A. M. R. Ramesh	Sonu, Anish Tejeshwar, Dileep Raj	James Vasanthan	Action		[2]
		Sri Banashankari Matha	Hamsa Shyam Vijeth	Hamsa Shyam Vijeth, Anu Prabhakar, Bharath Kalyankumar, Umesh Puranik	V. Manohar	Devotional
	8th	Samagama	Kasturi Jagnanath	Vidya, Vishranth, Ramakrishna	Kiran	Romance		[3]
		Preethiya Theru	Prasad	Thanil, Madhumitha, Rachana Mourya	Prasad	Romance		[4]
	14th	Suryakaanti	K. M. Chaitanya	Chetan Kumar, Regina Cassandra	Ilaiyaraaja	Romance		[5]
	22nd	Anishchitha	M. A. Rehman Pasha	Pavitra Lokesh, Devaraj, Suresh Heblikar, H. G. Dattatreya	Raj Bhaskar	Thriller	Based on a novel by Padma Shenoy	[6]
		School Master	Dinesh Babu	Suhasini, Vishnuvardhan, Devaraj, Tara, Avinash	Sridhar V. Sambhram	Drama		[7]
	28th	Porki	M. D. Sridhar	Darshan, Pranitha Subhash, Avinash	V. Harikrishna	Action	Remake of Telugu film Pokkiri
	29th	Aparaadhi	H. S. Rajashekar	Sangeetha, Devaraj, Avinash, Abhijith	Vijaya Bharathi	Action		[8]
		Ku Ku	Upendra	Master Vijay, Baby Vanitha, Sagar Nagabhushan, Rangashai, Chandrakala	Sagar Nagabhushan	Children's film		[9]
F E B	5th	Just Maath Maathalli	Sudeep	Sudeep, Ramya, Avinash, Yathiraj	Raghu Dixit	Romance
		Kolminchu	Sangeeth Sagar	Arundhati
		Yaare Nee Devathe	S. K. Nagendra Urs	Kumar, Sangeetha Shetty, Dharma	Venkat-Narayan	Romance		[10]
	12th	Crazy Kutumba	B. Ramamurthy	Ramesh Aravind, Ananth Nag, Sanathini, Dhanya, Bank Janardhan	Ricky Kej	Comedy	Remake of Marathi film De Dhakka
		Vimukthi	P. Sheshadri	Bhavana, Ramakrishna, Sania	Pravin Godkhindi	Drama
	19th	Aptharakshaka	P. Vasu	Vishnuvardhan, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Sandhya, Vimala Raman, Bhavana, Vinaya Prasad	Gurukiran	Horror, Drama	Sequel to the film Apthamitra
		Belli Modada Ambara	B. S. Sanjay	Teena Ponnappa, Madhusudhan, Poornima Vishwanth	Sanjeev	Romance		[11]
		Mukhaputa	Roopa Iyer	Roopa Iyer, Sanya Iyer	Hamsalekha	Drama		[11]
	26th	Jugaari	S. D. Arvind	Avinash Diwakar, Harshika Poonacha, Avinash	Arjun Janya	Drama
		Sugreeva	Om Prakash Rao + 10 directors	Shivarajkumar, Yagna Shetty, Harish Raj, Dileep Raj	Gurukiran	Action
		Varshadhare	Vemagal Jagannath Rao	Mithun Tejaswi, Payal Ghosh, Suraj, Sangeetha Shetty	B. Ajaneesh Loknath	Drama		[12]
M A R	5th	Janani	Rajkumar Chandulal	Vibha Rai, Prakash Rai, Kushboo, Jayasudha, Abdullah	Asif Ali	Drama		[13]
		Nanna Olavina Banna	Bhushan	Ashwini, Shantala, Somasekhar	V. Manohar	Romance		[14]
		Preethi Nee Shashwatha Na?	L. N. Murthy	Akshay Kumar, Keerthi, Gopi Krishna	K. Kalyan	Romance		[15]
	12th	Sihigali	Lekhan	Sri Murali, Sherin, Sharan	G. R. Shankar	Romance
		Sri Harikathe	Dayal Padmanabhan	Sri Murali, Pooja Gandhi, Radhika Gandhi, Naveen Krishna	Sameer Kulkarni	Romance
	19th	Dildara	Amar	Aman, Reshma Chengappa, Kishore, Rangayana Raghu	Praveen D. Rao	Action
		Swayamvara	Anantha Raju	Diganth, Srinagar Kitty, Sharmila Mandre, Tara	Manikanth Kadri	Romance
	26th	35/100 Just Pass	H. T. Deepak	Vikram, Raghu, Shwetha, Shankar	Pranava	Drama		[16]
		Nirdoshi	N. Govardhan	Piyush, Anand, Kashish Richa, Arya, Manoj, Kulbhushan Kharbanda	N. Govardhan	Drama		[17]
A P R	2nd	Premism	Ratnaja	Chetan Chandra, Amoolya, Varun	Hamsalekha	Romance
		Sathya	Kumar Govind	Kumar Govind, Manasi	Goutham	Action
		Thipparalli Tharlegalu	S. V. Rajendra Singh Babu	S. Narayan, Komal Kumar, Ambareesh	M. N. Krupakar	Comedy
	9th	Khiladi Krishna	Jayanth	Vijay Raghavendra, Tejaswini Prakash	Rajesh Ramanath	Comedy
		Krishna Nee Late Aagi Baaro	Mohan Shankar	Ramesh Aravind, Neethu, Nidhi Subbaiah, Mohan Shankar	Pravin Godkhindi	Comedy
		Parole	Shekar	Kishore, Sooraj Lokre, Vishwas, Likith Shetty, Sharath, Supreetha, Pradeep Bogadi	Balaji K. Mitran	Action		[18]
	23rd	Prithvi	Jacob Verghese	Puneeth Rajkumar, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Avinash	Manikanth Kadri	Action drama
		Antaratma	B. Shankar	Mithun Tejaswi, Vishakha Singh, Rohan Gowda, Umashree	Giridhar Diwan	Horror		[19]
	30th	Ijjodu	M. S. Sathyu	Anirudhh, Meera Jasmine	Manikanth Kadri	Drama
		Preethi Nee Heegeke	Suresh Hangal	Harish, Tejaswini Prakash	Drums Deva	Romance
		Ullasa Utsaha	Devaraja Palan	Ganesh, Yami Gautam, Doddanna, Rangayana Raghu	G. V. Prakash Kumar	Romance
M A Y	7th	Abhiram	Srinivasa Gundra Reddy	Santosh, Swathi, Akshitha, Sandhyasri, Venugopal, Dayananda Sharma, TV Srikanta	Basheer	Romance		[20]
		Bombat Car	Rama Narayanan	Ravishankar Gowda, Doddanna, Sharan, Sangeetha, Ramya Krishnan	Deva	Fantasy
	14th	Naanu Nanna Kanasu	Prakash Raj	Prakash Raj, Amoolya, Sithara, Ramesh Aravind	Hamsalekha	Drama	Remake of Tamil film Abhiyum Naanum
		Preethiyinda Ramesh	Gunakumar	Ramesh Aravind, Ramnitu Chaudhary, Suma Guha	A. T. Raveesh	Romance	Inspired by You've Got Mail
		Tharangini	Srinivas Kaushik	Mohan Shankar, Tejaswini Prakash, B. C. Patil, Shobaraj, Srinivasa Murthy, Doddanna	M. S. Maruthi	Drama	Based on Novel "Neenarigadeyo" by Usha Navarathnaram
	21st	Nooru Janmaku	Nagathihalli Chandrashekar	Santhosh, Aindrita Ray, Bhavya, Sharan	Mano Murthy	Romance
		Shankar IPS	M. S. Ramesh	Duniya Vijay, Catherine Tresa, Ragini Dwivedi, Rangayana Raghu	Gurukiran	Action
	28th	Nannavanu	Srinivasa Raju	Prajwal Devaraj, Aindrita Ray, Komal Kumar	Ilaiyaraaja	Romance
		Khadak	G. K. Mudduraj	Jitesh, Padmavathi, Jai Jagadish, Om Prakash Rao, Maruthi, Lamboo Nagesh	S. P. Chandrakanth	Action
J U N	4th	Aithalakkadi	J. G. Krishna	Rangayana Raghu, Bullet Prakash, Neethu, Sharan	Sadhu Kokila	Comedy
		Hoo	V. Ravichandran	V. Ravichandran, Namitha, Meera Jasmine	V. Harikrishna	Romance
	11th	Thamassu	Agni Shridhar	Shiva Rajkumar, Padmapriya, Harshika Poonachha, Nassar	Sandeep Chowta	Action
		Beli Matthu Hola	P. R. Ramadas Naidu	Achyuth Kumar, Huligappa Kattimani, Srinivas Meshtru, Venkata Rao, Ganesh Rao, Escort Srinivas	Raju Upendrakumar	Drama
	18th	Krishnan Love Story	Shashank	Ajay Rao, Radhika Pandit, Sharan, Harsha, Pradeep	Sridhar V. Sambhram	Romance
		Punda	H. Vasu	Yogesh, Meghana Raj, Sharath Lohitashwa, Petrol Prasanna	G. V. Prakash Kumar	Romance / Action	Remake of Tamil film Polladhavan
	25th	Mr. Theertha	Sadhu Kokila	Sudeep, Saloni Aswani, Ananth Nag, Geetha	Gurukiran	Action
		Haaru Hakkiyaneri	A. N. Prasanna	Jayaram Tatachar, Vasudha Bharighat, Kishore, Master Vasudev Ram, Nirmala, Ramesh Athreya	Praveen D. Rao	Documentary
		Jotheyagi Hithavagi	S. K. Srinivas	Chandan, Tejaswini Prakash, Tara	Drums Deva	Romance

July–December

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Music director	Genre	Notes	Ref
J U L	2nd	Hendtheer Darbar	V. Sekhar	Ramesh Aravind, Meena, Sadhu Kokila, Rangayana Raghu	Sadhu Kokila	Comedy drama
		Holi	Shankarlinga Sugnalli	Venkatesh Prasad, Ragini Dwivedi, Shobaraj, Doddanna, Karibasavaiah, Padmaja Rao, Pavitra Lokesh	Amarapriya Shivasharana Sugnalli	Drama		[21]
		Preethi Andre Ishtena	Ravikanth	Nabhay, Meghana Khanna, Master Anand, Doddanna, Jayanthi	A. T. Raveesh	Romance
		Pareekshe	A. R. Ravindra	Anu Prabhakar, Muniraj, Vinaya Prasad, Enagi Balappa	Hemanth Kumar	Drama
		Rowdy Hrudaya	Shivakumar	Rakesh, Kavyashree, Sundar	Ravishankar	Action
		Zamana	Lucky Shankar Aditya	Jackie Shroff, Nitish J. P, Vineeth Kumar, Aakarsha, Sadhu Kokila	Karthik Raja	Action
	9th	Eradane Maduve	Dinesh Baboo	Ananth Nag, Suhasini Maniratnam, Prem Kumar, Jennifer Kotwal, Tara, Sharan	Jayapal	Comedy
		Jayahe	Thriller Manju	Ayesha, Jai Akash, Thriller Manju, Gowri Pandit	M. N. Krupakar	Action
		Olave Vismaya	T. N. Nagesh	Dharma Keerthiraj, Prathibha Rani, Spoorthy, Ananth Nag, Padmaja Rao	Veer Samarth	Romance
	16th	Sanchari	Kiran Govi	Raj, Bianca Desai, Rangayana Raghu	Arjun Janya	Action
		Lift Kodla	Ashok Kashyap	Jaggesh, Komal, Archana Gupta, Shobaraj	V. Manohar	Comedy
	23rd	Nam Areal Ond Dina	Aravind Kaushik	Anish Tejeshwar, Meghana Gaonkar, Rakshit Shetty	Arjun Janya	Drama
		Banni	Godachi Maharudra	Akul Balaji, Sowmya Revadi, Master Anand, Srikanth Deshpande, Kashi, Gururaja Hoskote, Ninasam Ashwath	Leo	Romance		[22]
		Meshtru	Mahadevu	Devaraj, Bhanupriya, Mansoor Ali Khan, Dileep Pai, Seetha, Sujibala	K. M. Indra	Drama
	30th	Gandedhe	Akula Shiva	Chiranjeevi Sarja, Ragini Dwivedi, Devaraj, Rangayana Raghu	Chakri	Action
		Chandulli Cheluve	Shyam Siddaraju	Shyam, Charmila, Srinivasa Murthy, Bank Janardhan	Rajan–Nagendra	Romance
		Idre Gopi Bidre Paapi	G. V. Ramarao	Jagadish Raj, Madhusudhan, Bindhu Shri, Umashri, Spoorthi Suresh, Ramesh Bhat	Ravi Shenoy	Comedy
		Nee Bandu Ninthaga	Shekar Sarvanan	Sourav Sharma, Jyothikashri, Ramya Barna, Ramesh Bhat, Vinaya Prasad	E. L. Indrajith	Romance
		Gurukula	Sunil Puranik	Srinivas Prabhu, Master Sachin Bharadwaj, Master Sameer Puranik, Master Sourav Kulkarni	Mysore Gopi	Documentary
A U G	6th	Cheluveye Ninne Nodalu	D. P. Raghuram	Shivrajkumar, Sonal Chauhan	V. Harikrishna	Romance
		Mathe Mungaru	Dwarki Raghav	Srinagar Kitty, Rachana Malhotra, Ravishankar Gowda, Achyuth Kumar	Paul Raj	Romance
		Shambo Shankara	Chindodi Bangaresh	Naveen Krishna, Mohan Shankar, Jamuna, Ashwini, Roopasri	M. S. Maruthi	Comedy
		Gangleader	Ramesh Raj	Adi Lokesh, Devaraj, Yamini Sharma, Madhupriya, Kishore, Rangayana Raghu, Dharma Umesh	Abhiman Roy	Action
	13th	Deadly-2	Ravi Srivatsa	Aditya, Meghana, Devaraj, Suhasini Maniratnam, Ravi Kale	L. N. Shastry	Action
		Jokaali	M. M. Deepak	Gowri Shankar, Udhayathara, Ravi Kale, Rangayana Raghu, Umashri	S. A. Rajkumar	Drama
		Kunidu Kunidu Baare	S. Nandakumar	Aniruddh, Sona, Tara	K. Kalyan	Romance
	20th	Shourya	Sadhu Kokila	Darshan, Madalasa Sharma, Reemma	Sadhu Kokila	Action
	28th	Hunja	Jayanth	Mayur Patel, Deepika, Avinash	Rajesh Ramanath	Action		[23]
		Preethi Hangama	Vivek Raj	Vivek Raj, Shubha Poonja, Avinash	Rajkiran	Romance
S E P	3rd	Kari Chirathe	K. Madesh	Duniya Vijay, Sharmiela Mandre, Yagna Shetty	Sadhu Kokila	Action
		Pancharangi	Yogaraj Bhat	Diganth, Nidhi Subbaiah, Ananth Nag, Priyanka Trivedi, Ramya Barna	Mano Murthy	Romance
		Onti Mane	Vittal Kumar	Vinod Alva, Divya, Doddanna	Layendra	Horror
	9th	Nanjangud Nanjunda	Srinivas Prasad	Ravishankar Gowda, Hamsini, K. S. L. Swamy, Nagaraj Kote	Ravichandra	Comedy
	10th	Jothegara	Ram Prasad	Prem Kumar, Ramya, Lakshmi, Doddanna, Sadhu Kokila	Sujith Shetty	Romance
		Narada Vijaya	Manju M	Shashikumar, Harish Raj, Mohini Vishwas	Raj Bhaskar	Comedy
	17th	Appu and Pappu	Anantha Raju	Abbas, Snehith, Rekha Vedavyas, Rangayana Raghu, Komal Kumar, Madhuri Itagi	Hamsalekha	Comedy
	24th	Gubbi	Vijay	Ajith Patre, Reema Worah, Rangayana Raghu	Arjun Janya	Romance
		Yakka	Naganath M. Joshi	Bharat Kalyan, Subhashini, Ramesh Pawar	M. N. Krupar	Action
O C T	1st	Hrudayadhalli Idhenidhu	Sivan	Rahul, Vandana Gupta, Monica, Roopali Sood, Rangayana Raghu, Avinash	Dharma Prakash	Romance
	14th	Jackie	Duniya Soori	Puneeth Rajkumar, Bhavana (Malayalam actress), Rangayana Raghu	V. Harikrishna	Action
	15th	Kichha Huchha	Chi. Guru Dutt	Sudeep, Ramya, Srinath	V. Harikrishna	Action
	22nd	Vichitra Premi	S. N. Kumar	Ravi Kumar, Divya Sridhar, Bank Janardhan	Gandharva	Romance
		Sandalwood Guru	Manas	Manas, Akshata Shetty, Sathya Venkatesh, Navya	James Architect	Romance		[24]
	28th	Yaksha	Ramesh R. Bhagavath	Yogesh, Nana Patekar, Atul Kulkarni, Rubi Pariwar, Komal Kumar	Anoop Seelin	Action
	29th	Veera Parampare	S. Narayan	Ambareesh, Sudeep, Aindrita Ray, Vijayalakshmi Singh	S. Narayan / Dharma Vish (background score)	Action
		Gaana Bajaana	Prashant Raj	Tarun Chandra, Radhika Pandit, Dileep Raj	Joshua Sridhar	Romance
		Gundragovi	Tharesh Raj	Sathya, Navyashree, Sharath Lohitashwa, Ninasam Ashwath, Rohith	Phoenix Rajan	Drama
N O V	5th	Shock	H. S. Rajashekar	Ramesh Aravind, Suma Guha, Ninasam Ashwath	M. S. Maruthi	Thriller	Remake of Hindi film Kaun
		Bindaas Hudugi	Priya Hassan	Priya Hassan, Ravishankar Gowda, Jayanthi, Ninasam Ashwath	Erra Ramesh	Action
	12th	Huduga Hudugi	Indrajit Lankesh	Dhyan, Lekha Washington, Ileana D'Cruz, Sadha, Sanjjana	Joshua Sridhar / Dharma Vish (background score)	Romance
		Eno Onthara	Mussanje Mahesh	Ganesh, Priyamani, Sharan	Jassie Gift	Romance
	19th	Chirru	Mahesh Babu	Chiranjeevi Sarja, Kriti Kharbanda, Rangayana Raghu	Giridhar Diwan	Action
		Madhura Prema	Asma Banu	Utthamraj, Sushma, Vikramadathiya Sharma, Akhil, Sadiq	K. M. Indra	Romance
	26th	Bisile	Sandeep Gowda	Diganth, Jennifer Kotwal, Dwarakish, Jai Jagadish	Gagan - Hari	Romance
		Naariya Seere Kadda	Annaiah	V. Ravichandran, Nikita Thukral, Harshika Poonacha, Naveen Krishna	V. Manohar	Comedy
D E C	3rd	Super	Upendra	Upendra, Nayantara, Tulip Joshi, Sadhu Kokila	V. Harikrishna	Action drama
	10th	Naa Rani Nee Maharani	B. Ramamurthy	Pooja Gandhi, Akshay, Ramesh Bhat	Vinay Chandra	Romance
		Kanasemba Kudureyaneri	Girish Kasaravalli	Vijanath Biradar, Umashri, Pavitra Lokesh	V. Manohar	Drama
	17th	Huli	Om Prakash Rao	Kishore, Jennifer Kotwal, Adi Lokesh	Abhiman Roy	Action
		Naayaka	PC Shekhar	Naveen, Ragini Dwivedi, Rajendran	Praveen Dutt	Action		[25]
		Rame Gowda vs Krishna Reddy	T. N. Nagesh	Ananth Nag, Rangayana Raghu, Shashikumar, Roopasri	Krishnavardhan Kulkarni	Comedy	Remake of Hindi film Khosla Ka Ghosla
	24th	Mylari	R. Chandru	Shiva Rajkumar, Sadha, Sanjjana	Gurukiran	Drama
	30th	Modala Sala	Purushottham C Somanathapura	Yash, Bhama, Rangayana Raghu	V. Harikrishna	Romance
	31st	Vaare Vah	Vijayalakshmi Singh	Komal Kumar, Bhavana Rao, Mayuri	Vishwajith	Comedy
		Vismaya Pranaya	Mohan Mallapalli	Mayuri Saini, Kavya Sri, Ravi, Raj Sagar, Hema Choudhary	Maruthi Meerajkar K. Vishwanathan	Romance

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Profession	Notable films	Reference
January	18	K. S. Ashwath	85	Actor	Naagarahaavu • Kasturi Nivasa • Belli Moda	[26]
	21	Chindodi Leela	72	Actress	Kiththoor Chennamma • Gaali Gopura • Krishnadevaraya • Sharapanjara	[27]
February	27	B. K. Shankar	56	Actor	Ganeshana Maduve • Ganeshana Galaate • Gowri Ganesha	[28]
September	8	Murali	46	Actor	Prema Parva • Ajeya • Prema Gange	[29]
	12	Swarnalatha	37	Playback Singer	Kempu Gulabi • Manasella Neene	[29]
December	12	B. S. Ranga	93	Director	Mahasathi Anasuya • Amarashilpi Jakkanachari • Mannina Magalu	[30]

See also

• Kannada films of 2011
• Kannada films of 2009
• Cinema of Karnataka