Upendra filmography

Upendra is an Indian actor and director known primarily for his work in Kannada cinema. He began his career writing dialogues and lyrics for soundtrack in Kannada films.^[1] He then started out as a director making his debut in 1992 with Tharle Nan Maga. In a career spanning over 25 years, he has directed 10 films and acted in over 60 films.

Filmography

As an actor

Kannada films

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Roles	Notes
1989	Anantana Avantara	Kamadeva	Cameo
	Love Maadi Nodu	Doctor	Cameo
1991	Ajagajantara	Groom	Cameo
1993	Shhh!	Fake Police officer	Also director Cameo
1995	Om	Deena	Also director Voiceover for Kote Prabhakar
	Operation Antha	Bystander	Also director Cameo
1998	A	Surya	Also director
1999	Upendra	Naanu	Also director
2000	Preethse	Chandru
2002	H2O	Udayashankar Gowda	Kannada-Tamil bilingual
	Super Star	Ricky / Deependra[a]
	Nagarahavu	Ajay
	Naanu Naane	Raja
	Hollywood	Upendra / Surendra / Robot US47[b]
2003	Kutumba	Vijay
	Rakta Kanneeru	Mohan
	Gokarna	Sidda
2004	Omkara	Sathya
2005	Gowramma	Venkat Swamy
	News	Guru
	Auto Shankar	Shankar
2006	Uppi Dada M.B.B.S.	Rao Bahaddur Upendra
	Thandege Thakka Maga	Sathya
	Aishwarya	Abhishek Hegde
2007	Parodi	Vijay	Also lyricist
	Masti	Siddappaji
	Anatharu	Rudra
	Lava Kusha	Chakri
2008	Budhivanta	Panchamrutha[c]	Seven roles
	Mast Maja Maadi	Himself	Cameo
2009	Dubai Babu	Babu
	Rajani	Rajani
2010	Super	Subhash Chandra Gandhi	Also director
2011	Shrimathi	Raj Kumar
	Maryade Ramanna	Cycle (voice)	Voice role[2]
2012	Aarakshaka	Arun / Vishnu[a]
	Katari Veera Surasundarangi	Upendra / Mohan / Temporary Yama[b]
	Godfather	Shiva / Ajay / Vijay[b]
	Kalpana	Raghava
2013	Topiwala	Basak
2014	Brahma	Brahma
	Super Ranga	Sriranga
2015	Shivam	Basavanna / Alexander[a]
	Uppi 2	Naanu / Neenu[a]	Also director
2016	Kalpana 2	Raghava / Jade Shivu[a]
	Mukunda Murari	Mukunda
2017	Upendra Matte Baa	Upendra / Surendra[a]
2019	I Love You	Santosh
2022	Home Minister	Renuka Prasad	[3]
2023	Kabzaa	Arkeshwara
2024	UI	Sathya / Kalki / himself [b]	Also director[4]
TBA	Buddhivantha 2†	TBA	Completed[5]
TBA	Thrishulam †	TBA	Filming[6][7]
TBA	45 †	TBA	Filming[8]

Other language films

Year	Film	Roles	Language	Notes
1997	Omkaram	Narrator in the first scene	Telugu	Also director Voiceover for Kote Prabhakar
1998	Kanyadanam	Venkat
2000	Oke Maata	Sooryam
2001	Raa	Sridhar
2002	Neethone Vuntanu	Ravi
	H2O	Udayashankar Gowda	Tamil	Kannada-Tamil bilingual
2007	Toss	Neelakanta	Telugu
2008	Satyam	Manickavel	Tamil	Tamil-Telugu bilingual film
	Salute	Prathap Rudra	Telugu
2015	S/O Satyamurthy	Devaraj
2022	Ghani	Vikramaditya
2025	Coolie †	Kaleesha	Tamil	Filming

As director and writer

Year	Film	Credited as		Notes
		Director	Writer
1992	Sriramachandra		Dialogues
	Tharle Nan Maga			Also choreographer
1993	Shhh!
1995	Om
	Operation Antha
1997	Omkaram			Telugu film
1998	Swasthik
	A
1999	Upendra
2001	Raa		Screenplay	Telugu film
2002	H2O			Kannada-Tamil bilingual
	Super Star
	Hollywood
2003	Rakta Kanneeru
2010	Super
2012	Katari Veera Surasundarangi
2013	Topiwala
2015	Uppi 2
2024	UI

As narrator

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
2014	Ragini IPS		[9]
2022	Ponniyin Selvan	Kannada dubbed version trailer	[10]

Discography

Year	Film	Song	Composer	Co-Singer(s)
1999	Upendra	"Uppiganta Ruchi Bere Illa"	Gurukiran
2002	H2O	"Bida Byada", "Dil Ilde Love"	Sadhu Kokila
2002	Nagarahavu	"Yaaking Aadthiye"	Hamsalekha	Anuradha Sriram
2003	Rakta Kanneeru	"Baa Baaro Rasika"	Sadhu Kokila	Sowmya Raoh
2004	Omkara	"Othla Othla"	Gurukiran	Shamitha Malnad
2006	Uppi Dada M.B.B.S.	"Makkar Maado Maliniye"	R. P. Patnaik
2006	Aishwarya	"Yella Okay Madhuve Yaake"	Rajesh Ramanath
2007	Parodi	"Rowdy Mele"	Rajesh Ramanath
2008	Budhivanta	"Chitranna"	Vijay Antony	Sangeetha Rajeshwaran
2010	Super	"Sikkapatte Ishtapatte"	V. Harikrishna
2011	Jogayya	"Thagalakonde"	V. Harikrishna	Priya Himesh
2011	Jarasandha	"Pade Pade Phone-inalli"	V Harikrishna	Priya Himesh
2012	Katari Veera Surasundarangi	"Muthinantha Muthondhu"	Harikrishna
2013	Brindavana	"Oye Kalla"	Harikrishna	Indu Nagaraj
2014	Jai Lalitha	"Thorisabedammi"	Sridhar V. Sambhram
2014	Super Ranga	"Ondsali Avala"	Harikrishna
2015	Krishna-Leela	"Phoneammangu Simmappangu"	Sridhar V.
2015	Uppi 2	"Excuse Me Please"	Gurukiran
2016	Kalpana 2	"H2O Kudidivni"	Arjun Janya	Aishwarya Rangarajan
2016	Mukunda Murari	"I Am God, God is Great"	Arjun Janya
2019	I Love You	"Life Ene T20"	Dr. Kiran Thaotambyle	Chethan Naik, Vasushree Halemane

Notes

1. Upendra played dual roles in the film.
2. Upendra played triple roles in the film.
3. Upendra played seven different roles in the film, namely: Joseph Fernandez, Panchamrutha, Zakir Hussain, Vijay Mittal, Samarasimha Reddy, Ranjaneesh Swamy and Shyam Prasad.