PRK Productions is an Indian film production company founded by

Puneeth Rajkumar Puneeth Rajkumar (17 March 1975 – 29 October 2021), colloquially known as Appu, was an Indian actor, playback singer, television presenter, and producer, who worked in Kannada cinema. He was the youngest son of actor and matinee idol Dr. Ra ...

and managed by his wife,

Ashwini Puneeth Rajkumar Puneeth Rajkumar (17 March 1975 – 29 October 2021), colloquially known as Appu, was an Indian actor, playback singer, television presenter, and producer, who worked in Kannada cinema. He was the youngest son of actor and matinee idol Dr. Rajk ...

History

PRK Productions was founded on 20 July 2017. The production house made its feature film debut with ''

Kavaludaari ''Kavaludaari'' () is a 2019 Indian Kannada-language neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Hemanth Rao, presented by Puneeth Rajkumar and produced by Ashwini Puneeth Rajkumar of PRK Productions. Kavaludaari will be the first feature film ...

'' (2019), a

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starring

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and

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. The studio's next film was '' Mayabazar 2016'' (2020), which featured an ensemble cast of

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, and

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. Due to the

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, the production house's next two ventures, '' Law'' and '' French Biriyani'', were directly released on

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in 2020. ''Law'' marked the film debut of Ragini,

Prajwal Devaraj Prajwal Devaraj (born 4 July 1987) is an Indian actor who mainly works in Kannada cinema. He made his debut with the Kannada film ''Sixer'' (2007) for which he won the Best Debut actor award at the Suvarna Film Awards. This was followed by th ...

's wife. ''French Biriyani'' stars Danish Sait and Sal Yusuf and marks the film debut of

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Filmography

References

{{PRK Productions Film production companies based in Bangalore Indian film studios Film production companies of Karnataka