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Jayathirtha B. V. (born May 8th, 1977) is an Indian theater activist, production designer and filmmaker.[1] He is known for his movies Olave Mandara, Tony, Beautiful Manasugalu, and Bell Bottom. He is also known for his work as a director and play writer.

Jayathirtha
Born	(1977-05-08) 8 May 1977 (age 45) Bangalore, India
Occupation	Film director theatre director production designer
Known for	Olave Mandara Tony Beautiful Manasugalu Bell Bottom
Spouse	Poornima H. D.
Children	1

Early life

Jayathirtha was born and brought up in Bangalore, Karnataka. A high school dropout due to financial constraints, he started working as a salesman at 17 and took up theater as a pastime.^{[citation needed]} He trained at Abhinayataranga under the renowned theatre personality A. S. Murthy[2] and later became a teacher in the same institution.

Jayathirtha won several awards for his works in theatre including the B. V. Karanth Best Stage Reviewer Award (1997) for his critical review of the play, Maranayak.^{[citation needed]}

Film career

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In 2007, he directed a short film called Hasivu (Hunger). The movie won the Best Indian Short Film award at Cinerail Film Festival, Paris.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011, he directed a full-fledged Kannada feature film, Olave Mandara which brought several awards including the 59th Filmfare Award (Best Director).^{[citation needed]} The sub-plot of Olave Mandara is inspired by the real-life events of Dashrath Manjhi who cut a rocky hill for 22 years to build a road in memory of his wife.

Later he directed Tony (2013) which won him the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay.[3] Jayathirtha’s philosophical bend drew one of its subplots from Leo Tolstoy’s short story How Much Land Does a Man Need?.^{[citation needed]}

Bullet Basya (2015)[4] was a Kannada comedy film and a commercial entertainer.

Beautiful Manasugalu (2017) was another successful movie, based on the true occurrences that shocked people in 2012.[5][6][7] The movie won Best Dialogues Award at KAFTA Times of India 2017, the only awards given to technicians in Kannada film industry.[8]

Vanilla (2018)[9] is a murder mystery with a message of social concerns.

Bell Bottom (2019)[10] is a comedy crime thriller, a story of a die-hard fan of detective stories. It became the first Kannada film in 2019 to complete 100 days.[11] It also won the second best commercial film recognition at Bangalore International Film Festival 2020.^{[citation needed]} The movie has won Best Director Award in Critics Choice Film Awards 2020.[12]

Banaras is a love story set against the backdrop of Kashi.[13][14][15]

Jayathirtha is a part of a five-director collaboration. Five well-known directors of the Kannada film industry, Jayathirtha, KM Chaitanya, Shashank (director), Yogaraj Bhat, and Pawan Kumar (director) — are coming together to make a film. This will be the first-of-its-kind collaboration in the Kannada film industry.[16] It is 2-hour commercial entertainer.

Bell Bottom 2, the sequel to the blockbuster Bell Bottom is also now being directed by Jayathirtha.[17]

Theatre Activities

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Jayathirtha has conducted more than 150 theater training programs, focusing on issues including life skills.^{[citation needed]} He penned and directed 65 street plays and ten stage plays from 1996 to 2007. He organized those plays to spread social awareness among illiterates and the backward classes. Jayathirtha directed Hathim Thi, an experiment with 500 actors, at the Al-Ameen school building.

Jayathirtha has used street plays as an effective medium to convey philosophical messages, concerning social issues, imbued with the entertaining flow. His approach is to involve the audience in the flow of the plays. He scripted six stage plays and 69 street plays/shows, only on social issues.[18]

Radio

Jayathirtha directed a 450-episode^[when?] of educational radio drama for children, Chukki Chinna – Chinnara Chukki, for an NGO Education Development Center under Sarva Shikshana Abhiyana program of Govt. of India.^{[citation needed]} This interactive syllabus-based radio program was recorded between 2005-2007, but it continues to play on the radio for first-standard to sixth-standard students in Karnataka government schools.^{[citation needed]}

Recognition

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• Best Back Stage designer 1994 (Abhinaya Tharanga)
• Best script writer 1996 (Abhinaya Tharanga)
• Best stage reviewer 1997 (B.V.Karanth Award)
• Second Best Small Story Award – from Gulbarga University (2002)
• First place in small story award – from Belagali Sahithya Pratistana. (2002)
• First place in small story award – from Kannada Sahithya Parishath. (2002)
• First place in script writing – Street play – Pravardhini from Sahithya Sankramana (2003)
• Best Indian short film Hasivu from Cinerail film festival in Paris ^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
2007	Hasivu			Short Film
2011	Olave Mandara
2013	Tony			also Lyricist
2015	Endendigu
	Bullet Basya
2017	Beautiful Manasugalu
2018	Vanilla
2019	Bell Bottom
2022	Banaras			[19]
2022	Kaiva			in post-production
2022	Bell Bottom 2[20]			in pre production

Awards

Movie	Award	Category	Result	Ref.
Hasivu	Cinerail Film Festival, Paris	Best short film (Indian)	Won
Olave Mandara	59th Filmfare Awards South	Best Director – Kannada	Won	[21]
	Raghavendra Chitravaani Award	Best Director	Won
	'Big FM – ETV' award	Best Director	Won
	Santosham Award	Best Director - Kannada	Won
	1st SIIMA Awards	Best Director	Nominated	[22]
Tony	2013 Karnataka State Film Awards	Best Screenplay	Won	[23]
	Lalitha Kala Academy Award	Best Director	Won
Beautiful Manasugalu	65th Filmfare Awards South	Best Director	Nominated	[24]
	KAFTA Times of India 2017	Best Dialogues	Won	[25]
Bell Bottom	Zee Comedy Awards 2020	Best Director	Won	[26]
	Chandanavana Critics' Academy Award	Best Screenplay	Won
	Critics’ Choice Film Awards 2020	Best Director	Won	[27]
9th SIIMA Awards	Best Director	Nominated

References

External links

• Jayatheertha at IMDb
• abhinayataranga.com

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