Om Prakash Rao is an Indian

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and actor who primarily works in

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

film industry. He has, till date, directed about 47 films in

language.

Career

Om Prakash Rao's successful films such as Lockup Death (1996), Simhada Mari (1997),

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(1999),

Huchha ''Huchcha'' () is a 2001 Indian Kannada-language romantic action film directed by Om Prakash Rao, starring Sudeep and Rekha Vedavyas in the lead roles. The film, the Kannada remake of the 1999 Tamil film '' Sethu'' directed by Bala and sta ...

and

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(2004) have been huge blockbusters in Kannada cinema.

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 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

Filmography

As director

As actor

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