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Pawan Kumar (born 29 October 1982) is an Indian film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter from the Kannada film industry.[1]

Pawan Kumar
Born	(1982-10-29) 29 October 1982 (age 40)
Education	PESU, Bengaluru
Occupation	Director producer screenwriter actor
Years active	2007 - Present
Known for	Lucia U Turn
Spouse	Sowmya Jaganmurthy ​ (m. 2010)​
Children	1

Pawan Kumar is well known for writing the films Manasaare and Pancharangi. His directorial debut Lifeu Ishtene (2011) and the 2013 psychological thriller Lucia became one of the biggest turning points of his career. Being from a theatre background, he wrote scripts for plays on stage before working as an associate director with Yograj Bhat.[2] He has also acted in the plays he wrote namely "The Final Reharsal" (2002) which is about an actor and reality television and "The woman in me" which is loosely based on the concept that there is a woman in every man and vice versa. Pawan also holds a production house named Pawan Kumar Films. Recently^[when?] during lockdown, Pawan gave free online workshop on YouTube. He also shot a short film at home- A Labour unthanked.

Filmography

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

As director

Feature films

Year	Film	Credited as			Language	Notes
		Director	Writer	Producer
2009	Manasaare	No	Yes	No	Kannada
2010	Pancharangi	No	Yes	No	Kannada
2011	Lifeu Ishtene	Yes	Yes	No	Kannada
2013	Lucia	Yes	Yes	Yes	Kannada
2016	U Turn	Yes	Yes	Yes	Kannada
2017	Ondu Motteya Kathe	No	No	Yes	Kannada
2018	U-Turn	Yes	Yes	No	Tamil Telugu	Bilingual Film
2023	Dhoomam	Yes	Yes	No	Malayalam	Produced by Hombale films.[3]

Web Series

Year	Film	Credited as			Language	Notes
		Director	Writer	Producer
2019	Leila	Yes	No	No	Hindi	Netflix web series
2021	Kudi Yedamaithe	Yes	Yes	Co-producer	Telugu	Aha web series

As actor

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2007	Mr. Garagasa
2008	Inthi Ninna Preethiya	Vaasne Baabu
2009	Manasaare	Dollar
2009	Circus
2010	Pancharangi	Lakshman "Lucky" Rao
2011	Lifeu Ishtene	Suraj
2015	Plus
2018	Gultoo	Phaneesh
2018	U-Turn	One of the person who made post mortem reports
2019	Chambal
2019	Alidu Ulidavaru
2021	Kudi Yedamaithe	Harsha	Telugu Web series
2022	Honeymoon	New Friend in Bar	Web series
2022	Gaalipata 2	Bhushan

Accolades

Film	Award	Category	Result	Ref
Lifeu Ishtene	59th Filmfare Awards South	Best Director	Nominated	[4]
	Bangalore Times Film Awards	Best Director	Won	[5]
Lucia	61st Filmfare Awards South	Best Director	Won	[6]
	London Indian Film Festival 2013	Audience Choice Award	Won	[7] [8]
	3rd SIIMA Awards	Best Director	Nominated	[9]
U Turn (2016 film)	64th Filmfare Awards South	Best Film	Nominated	[10] [11]
		Best Director	Nominated
	6th SIIMA Awards	Best Film	Nominated	[12]
		Best Director	Nominated
	2nd IIFA Utsavam	Best Picture	Nominated	[13]
		Best Direction	Won
		Best Story	Won
Ondu Motteya Kathe	65th Filmfare Awards South	Kannada Best Film	Won	[14] [15]
	7th SIIMA Awards	Best Film	Nominated	[16]

References

External links

• Pawan Kumar on Facebook
• Pawan Kumar at IMDb
• Pawan Kumar on Instagram
• Pawan Kumar on Twitter
• Pawan Kumar on YouTube

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