Pawan Kumar (director)

Pawan Kumar (born 29 October 1982) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actor who primarily works in Kannada cinema.^[1]

Pawan Kumar
Born	(1982-10-29) 29 October 1982 (age 42)
Occupations	Director producer screenwriter actor
Years active	2007–present
Spouse	Sowmya Jaganmurthy ​ (m. 2010)​
Children	1

Pawan Kumar is well known for writing the films Manasaare and Pancharangi. His directorial debut Lifeu Ishtene (2011) and the 2013 psychological thriller Lucia became one of the biggest turning points of his career. Being from a theatre background, he wrote scripts for plays on stage before working as an associate director with Yograj Bhat.^[2] In 2023, he wrote and directed the Malayalam film Dhoomam, which was released to negative reviews.

Filmography

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

As director

Films

List of Pawan Kumar film directing credits

Year	Title	Credited as			Language	Notes
		Director	Writer	Producer
2009	Manasaare	No	Yes	No	Kannada
2010	Pancharangi	No	Yes	No
2011	Lifeu Ishtene	Yes	Yes	No
2013	Lucia	Yes	Yes	Yes		[3]
2016	U Turn	Yes	Yes	Yes
2017	Ondu Motteya Kathe	No	No	Yes
2018	U Turn	Yes	Yes	No	Tamil; Telugu	Bilingual Film. Debut in Tamil and Telugu cinema.
2021	Ikkat	No	No	Yes	Kannada
2023	Dhoomam	Yes	Yes	No	Malayalam	Debut in Malayalam cinema.

Web series

Pawan Kumar web series credits

Year	Title	Credited as			Network	Language
		Director	Writer	Producer
2019	Leila	Yes	No	No	Netflix	Hindi
2021	Kudi Yedamaithe	Yes	Yes	Co-producer	Aha	Telugu

As actor

Pawan Kumar film acting credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Mr. Garagasa
2008	Inthi Ninna Preethiya	Vaasne Baabu
2009	Manasaare	Dollar
	Circus
2010	Pancharangi	Lakshman "Lucky" Rao
2011	Lifeu Ishtene	Suraj
2015	Plus
2018	Gultoo	Phaneesh
	Chambal
	U Turn	Media reporter	Telugu–Tamil film
2019	Alidu Ulidavaru
2021	Kudi Yedamaithe	Harsha	Telugu web series
2022	Honeymoon	New friend in a bar	web series
	Gaalipata 2	Bhushan
2023	Hostel Hudugaru Bekagiddare	senior	Cameo
2024	Bachelor Party	Lobo Griffin	Cameo

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations received by Pawan Kumar

Year	Work	Award	Category	Result	Ref.
2012	Lifeu Ishtene	59th Filmfare Awards South	Best Director	Nominated	[4]
		Bangalore Times Film Awards	Best Director	Won	[5]
2014	Lucia	61st Filmfare Awards South	Best Director	Won	[6]
		London Indian Film Festival 2013	Audience Choice Award	Won	[7][8]
		3rd SIIMA Awards	Best Director	Nominated	[9]
2017	U Turn	64th Filmfare Awards South	Best Film	Nominated	[10] [11]
			Best Director	Nominated
		6th SIIMA Awards	Best Film	Nominated	[12]
			Best Director	Nominated
		2nd IIFA Utsavam	Best Picture	Nominated	[13]
			Best Direction	Won
			Best Story	Won
2018	Ondu Motteya Kathe	65th Filmfare Awards South	Kannada Best Film	Won	[14][15]
		7th SIIMA Awards	Best Film	Nominated	[16]