Dheekshith Shetty

Dheekshith Shetty (/ˈdiːkʃɪθ ˈʃɛti/) is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Kannada and Telugu films. He is widely known for Dia (2020), Dasara (2023) and Blink (2024), and the television show Naagini.^[3] Shetty won the SIIMA Award for Best Supporting Actor – Telugu for his performance in Dasara (2023).^[4]

Dheekshith Shetty
Shetty in 2022
Born	(1995-12-22) 22 December 1995 (age 29)[1] Kundapura, Karnataka, India[2]
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2016−present

Career

Dheekshith started his career with the soap opera Preethi Endarenu and Sakshi in 2016 and rose to fame with Naagini alongside Deepika Das.^[5] He also participated in the reality show Dance Karnataka Dance and emerged as the winner alongside Deepika Das.^[6]

He made his feature film debut with the 2020 Kannada film Dia.^[7] He then made his Telugu film debut in 2021 with Mugguru Monagallu and then starred in The Rose Villa. However his breakthrough in Telugu was through Dasara alongside Nani, Keerthy Suresh and Shine Tom Chacko.^[8][9] He also appeared in the anthology series Meet Cute produced by Nani.^[10][11] His next release came in 2024 with KTM which opened to mixed reviews but Shetty's performance was appreciated.^[12] The next release came within a month through the Kannada film Blink which was an experimental film with story of Oedipus which opened to glowing reviews.^[13][14]

Filmography

Film

Key

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

List of Dheekshith Shetty film credits

Year	Title	Role	Language	Notes	Ref.
2020	Oh Fish		Kannada	Short film	[15]
	Dia	Rohit			[16][17]
2021	Mugguru Monagallu	Chandrathreya Kishore Varma	Telugu		[18]
	The Rose Villa	Ravi			[19]
2022	Navabelaku		Kannada	Short film
	Smile			Short film
2023	Dasara	Siddham Suryam "Suri"	Telugu		[20]
2024	KTM	Karthik	Kannada		[21]
	Blink	Apoorva			[22]
TBA	Sheegrameva Kalyana Praptirasthu †	Sagar		Filming	[23]
TBA	Strawberry †	TBA		Post-production	[24]
TBA	Bank of Bhagyalakshmi †	TBA		Post-production	[25]
TBA	KJQ †	TBA	Telugu	Filming	[26]
TBA	The Girlfriend †	Vikram / Vikcy		Filming	[27]
TBA	Oppees †	TBA	Malayalam	Filming	[28]

Television

List of Dheekshith Shetty television credits

Year	Title	Role	Network	Language	Notes	Ref.
2016	Preethi Endarenu		Star Suvarna	Kannada
	Saakshi		Udaya TV
2016–2020	Naagini	Arjun/Partha	Zee Kannada			[29]
2017	Dance Karnataka Dance	Contestant			Winner	[30]
2022	Meet Cute	Siddharth	SonyLIV	Telugu	segment: "In L(aw)ove"	[31]
2025	Touch Me Not	Rishi	JioHotstar

Awards and nominations

List of awards and nominations received by Dheekshith Shetty

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2020	9th South Indian International Movie Awards	Best Supporting Actor – Kannada	Dia	Nominated	[17]
2024	69th Filmfare Awards South	Best Supporting Actor – Telugu	Dasara	Nominated	[32]
	12th South Indian International Movie Awards	Best Supporting Actor – Telugu		Won	[33]