Om Prakash Rao

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N. Om Prakash Rao
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Occupations
  • producer
  • actor
  • Spouses
    • (divorced)
    • Denissaa Prakash[citation needed]
      (m. 2002)
    Children4

    Om Prakash Rao is an Indian film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor who primarily works in Kannada film industry. He has, till date, directed about 47 films in Kannada language.[citation needed][when?] He rose to fame when a regional channel, TV9 Kannada did a sting operation revealing how Om Prakash Rao casts female actors only if they were willing to give him sexual favors.

    Career

    Om Prakash Rao's successful films such as

    Kalasipalya (2004) have been huge blockbusters in Kannada cinema.[citation needed
    ]

    Controversies

    Omprakash Rao was beaten up in Srirangapattina. The filmmaker, who was revealed as a director who took advantages of all actresses sexually, was said to have been physically abused for all his wrongdoings. The director couldn't even complete the shooting of his ongoing film. The film was said to have been stalled by angry people. Om Prakash Rao was said to have asked for sexual favours by actresses by offering them some top projects[1]

    Omprakash Rao and Guru Deshpande, and producers Diwakar Babu and Rajashekar, were caught on camera luring young girls with the promise of roles in films[2]

    Filmography

    As director

    Year Film Title Notes
    1994 Palegaara
    1994 Lockup Death
    1994 Gold Medal
    1995 Emergency
    1997 Simhada Mari
    1997 CBI Durga
    1999
    AK-47
    1999
    A. K. 47
    Telugu
    2001 Huchcha Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Director
    2001 Vande Matharam
    2002 Ninne Preethisuve
    2003 Partha Also producer
    2003 Sachi
    2004 Kalasipalya
    2004 Sahukara
    2005 Annavru
    2005
    Ayya
    2005 Thunta
    2006
    Hubli
    Also producer
    2006 Mandya Also producer
    2009 Kannadada Kiran Bedi
    2009 Yodha
    2010 Sugreeva
    2010 Huli
    2011 Prince
    2012
    AK 56
    2012 Bheema Theeradalli
    2012 Shiva
    2013 Election
    2014 Chandralekha
    2015 Katte
    2018 Huccha 2
    2020 Thrishoolam

    As actor

    Year Title Role Note(s)
    2002 Dakota Express Sundar
    2003 Sachi
    2004 Kanakambari Krishna
    2004 Aliya Mane Tholiya Krishna
    2009 Abhay Shastri
    2009 Devru
    2010 Thipparalli Tharlegalu Pandu
    2010 Shourya
    2010 Swayamvara
    2011 Dhool
    2014 Fair & Lovely
    2015 The Man Ravishankar
    2016 Khanana Dr. Narasimha

    References

    1. ^ "Om Prakash Rao gets beaten up in Srirangapattina". The Times of India.
    2. ^ "Kannada film big shots caught in casting couch sting - India News". India Today. 28 August 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2020.

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