S. Narayan (born 5 June 1962) is an Indian filmmaker, director, actor and lyricist of

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. After

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, Narayan is the second director to direct

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and all his three sons. He has given many hits with Vishnuvardhan and also worked with many actors of Sandalwood. He has directed Tamil movie '' Jai''.

Career

After assisting H. R. Bharghava, Raj Kishore and A. T. Raghu, Narayan made his directorial debut with the romantic drama ''

Chaitrada Premanjali ''Chaitrada Premanjali'' is a 1992 Indian Kannada-language romance drama film directed and written by S. Narayan making his debut in direction. The film stars newcomers Raghuveer and Shwetha along with Lokesh and Abhijeeth in other pivotal r ...

'' (1992), with newcomers, the film, which featured a successful soundtrack by Hamsalekha became a musical hit at the box office. He then went on to direct similar themed romantic films such as ''Meghamale'' (1994), ''Anuragada Alegalu'' (1992) and also successful family dramas like ''Thavarina Thottilu'' and ''Bevu Bella''. Throughout the 2000s, he directed mostly remakes, such as ''Simhadriya Simha'', ''Cheluvina Chittara'' and ''Suryavamsha''. In 2015, he directed ''Daksha'', starring Duniya Vijay, which was completely shot in single takes. In 2016, he was supposed to direct a project called ''JD'', starring Jagadish Gowda and ''Dictator'' with Huccha Venkat; both got shelved after launch. He directed ''Na Panta Kano'' and ''

Manasu Mallige ''Manasu Mallige'' () is an Indian Kannada-language romantic drama film directed by S. Narayan and produced by Rockline Venkatesh and Akash Chawla. The film, a remake of Nagraj Manjule's Marathi film ''Sairat'' (2016), features Rinku Rajguru ...

'', a remake of Marathi film ''

Sairat ''Sairat'' () is a 2016 Indian Marathi-language romantic tragedy film directed by Nagraj Manjule and produced by Manjule himself under his banner Aatpat Production along with Nittin Keni and Nikhil Sane under Essel Vision Productions and ...

''.

Filmography

As director

As actor

This list is of films Narayan has acted to other directors.

As composer

References

External links

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