Sihi Kahi Chandru
Chief Mentor
A defining figure of Kannada television — director of Papa Pandu and Silli Lalli, both crossing 1,000 episodes — and an actor in over 200 Kannada films across 35 years.
The team
The people who
have held this up.
Prakasam runs because of an unreasonable amount of generosity from a small number of people — its founder, its directors, and a board of senior advisors.
The founder
P D Sathish Chandra.
Theatre actor and director. Communications professional. Best known to wider audiences as a fixture of Kannada television.
PD's stage life began at college, deepened through Bangalore Little Theatre, and travelled through the founding years of Ranga Shankara before he started Prakasam in 2001. He has acted in more than fifty plays across Kannada, English, Hindi, Marathi and Bengali; directed seven; and contributed to a generation of Kannada theatre as actor, director, and mentor.
Outside Prakasam, he is recognisable from Kannada television — including Panduranga Vittala and Bhale Basava on Zee Kannada — and from films such as Kutty Srank (winner of seven national awards), Parari and Minugu. He was once Programme Director at Red FM 93.5.
With a Masters in Mass Communications, he has taught theatre at NMKRV College for Women and at Frames, and has written on the performing arts for The Times of India.
Advisory board
People behind the work.
A board of senior theatre and television practitioners whose support has been unconditional, whose criticism has been generous, and whose presence has shaped every production we mount.
Mandhya Ramesh
Advisor — Operations
Founder of Natana repertory. Three decades in Kannada cinema and television, with credits across 100+ films. Shapes the day-to-day rigour of our productions.
Geeta Citygirl Chopra
International Liaison
New York-based founder of SALAAM Theatre, the first professional South Asian theatre company in the USA. Brings a global gaze to our work.
Srinivas A. Kappanna
Advisor — Design & Light
Former Chairman of the Karnataka Nataka Akademi. National Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee. Mentored at National College, Basavanagudi, by Padmabhushana Dr. H. Narasimhaiah.
Vijay Padki
Advisor — Theatre Craft
Behavioural scientist, founding director of the P&P Group. Six decades with Bangalore Little Theatre — actor, director, writer, three-time president. Hindu Best Script awardee.
Dr. B V Rajaram
Advisor — Academic
PhD in Dramatics. Forty years in theatre. Acting Director of the Karnataka Nataka Akademi and the force behind Kala Gangothri. Nataka Akademi Awardee, 1992.
The wider team
Names on our wall.
Prakasam runs on the unconditional support of its team — actors, designers, technicians, writers, interns and friends. The wall below is mirrored live from our blog, where the trust keeps it current as people join, leave, and return.
- 001 PD Sathish Chandra
- 002 Gagan Godgal
- 003 Meghashree Bhaghavatar
- 004 Santosh BS
- 005 Govind Ashrith
- 006 Niranjan Deshpande
- 007 Praveen
- 008 Venkatesh Reddy
- 009 Hitha Chandrashekar
- 010 Kushal Gowda
- 011 Soumya Mallikarjun
- 012 Monish Nagaraj
- 013 Parthasarathy Raju
- 014 Santosh Karki
- 015 Chandan Shankar
- 016 Ashwin Raghuram
- 017 Smitha Chandan
- 018 Khuldeepak
- 019 Nithesh SS
- 020 Suneeth Halgeri
- 021 Shilpa Arvind
- 022 Nagaraja V
- 023 Pallavi Somiah
- 024 Chaya B
- 025 Vasu Keshan
- 026 Balakrishna Aravankur
- 027 Vinay Sheshadri
- 028 Akshay Bhonsley
- 029 Arpith Bhonsley
- 030 Alok Urs
- 031 Ankitha Nihaari
- 032 Anil Kulkarni
- 033 Apoorva Vishweshwar
- 034 Devki Mohan
- 035 Guru A
- 036 Hitha Chandrashekar
- 037 Jagadeesha Athavaadi
- 038 Kavana Hegde
- 039 Kavitha A C
- 040 Krishna Hathwar
- 041 Manjunath Jambe
- 042 Manjunath S
- 043 Nagaraja Venkateshappa
- 044 Nirmitha Jagadeesh
- 045 Nishith Poojary
- 046 Nithesh
- 047 Anunitya
- 048 Pavanesh Netrekar
- 049 Prakruthi Kashyap
- 050 Raghavendra Gudi
- 051 Raj Shri
- 052 Raji Achar
- 053 Rajesh
- 054 Ranjitha
- 055 Ramaa Rao
- 056 RJ Pallavii
- 057 Rohini Raghunandan
- 058 Santosh Karki
- 059 Sharath Parvathavani
- 060 Srivatsa
- 061 Sujay Shastry
- 062 Venkatesh S Reddy
- 063 Vijay Pandavapura
- 064 Umesh Dudo
- 065 Aditya Hegde
- 066 Ajay Nadig
- 067 Akshata Somashekar
- 068 Ashwini Giriraj
- 069 Ashwini Mohan
- 070 Balu Nagendra
- 071 Barun Sen
- 072 Chandan HBK
- 073 Chandru Shekhar
- 074 Chaya Basavaraj
- 075 Chethana Thirthahalli
- 076 Dayaprasad G Kulkarni
- 077 Deepa malli
- 078 Divya Anand
- 079 Divya K
- 080 Divya Panyam Ranganath
- 081 Gururaj
- 082 Harsha Narasimhamurthy
- 083 Hemanth Sushil
- 084 Jaykumar Shivashankar
- 085 Jeevan Morey
- 086 Krithi Bettadh
- 087 Kumar Shan
- 088 Kushal Gowda
- 089 Lakshmi Karanth
- 090 Madhuri Shivangi
- 091 Mamata SK
- 092 Mandeep Rai
- 093 Rishi
- 094 Nagendra Shaa
- 095 Nirmala Naksha
- 096 Pallavi Prakash
- 097 Pavan Pannathpura
- 098 Pradeep BV
- 099 Pradeep Gowda
- 100 Prashant Madhyasta
- 101 Praveen Pari
- 102 Priyanka Prasad
- 103 Rahamath Khan
- 104 Rajeshwari Talawar
- 105 Rajni
- 106 Ramya Maiyya
- 107 Ravi Chandra
- 108 Rekha Belvaadi
- 109 Rohith Devatha
- 110 Roopashree Rohith
- 111 Sam Mathew
- 112 Santosh Vaidyanathan
- 113 Shwetha Prashant
- 114 Sihi Kahi Chandru
- 115 Sihi Kahi Geetha
- 116 Sumana M
- 117 Sunethra Nagaraj
- 118 Vasvi
- 119 Vasishta N Simha
- 120 Vijay-Sanchaari
- 121 Vrushank Bhat
- 122 Ambika
- 123 Gururaj Kheni
- 124 Shwetha
- 125 Malavika
- 126 Namana
- 127 Sudhindra
- 128 Swathi
- 129 Prathap
- 130 Kamal Pruthi
- 131 Badal
- 132 Kiran Madalu
- 133 Akash S
- 134 Pavan
- 135 Prathiba
- 136 Sparsha R K
- 137 Sumanth Naik
- 138 Shreya Ramesh
- 139 Sameera Bharadwaj
- 140 Savita BG
- 141 Shreyas Parthasarathy
- 142 Vaishnavi
- 143 Harish
- 144 Anuraag
- 145 Shrilakshmi
- 146 Pranathi
- 147 Madhuri
- 148 Vinay
- 149 Archana
- 150 Smitha Hoysala
- 151 Nikhil Parthasarathy
- 152 Sushma s v
- 153 Kavyashree
- 154 Mohan
- 155 Pavan reddy
- 156 Pooja kashyap
- 157 Raghunandhan hukarde
- 158 Thanishka
- 159 Srivatsa
- 160 Sushma
- 161 Girish jayaram
- 162 Vibha dongre
- 163 Giriraj BM
- 164 Chethan N
- 165 Krishna Canamedi
- 166 Kushal
- 167 Kousthubh
- 168 Poornima
- 169 Rashmi Shellikeri
- 170 Shruthi Raghunanda
- 171 Srinivas Rao
- 172 Srilakshmi YM
- 173 Sunder veena
- 174 Ujwala rao
- 175 Vasudha bhat
- 176 Vijay kumar kanakapura
- 177 Raghuveera
- 178 Anand
- 179 Sadhashivashetty Anandmurthy
- 180 Rakshith
- 181 Amar holagade
- 182 Hemaraj
- 183 Shamasundar
- 184 Swaroop srikantaiah
- 185 Srikanth gubbi
- 186 Roopa rayappa
- 187 Prameshwar
- 188 Savitha avarsang
- 189 Varun
- 190 Hari samashti
- 191 Shivakumar wali
- 192 Rachanaa g n
- 193 Adarsh
- 194 Bindu Ravishankar
- 195 Manju Patel
- 196 Gangadhar
- 197 Vishwas krishnamurthy
- 198 Dr. Sheshidhar
- 199 Pavan kumar
- 200 Sunil kumar
- 201 Arun kumar
- 202 Yuvraj
- 203 Anirudh
- 204 Nitesh
- 205 Abhinav
- 206 Puneeth
- 207 Roopa komarla
- 208 Harsha nalwad
- 209 Vishwamurthy havaldar
- 210 Vinod Vinu
- 211 Shamaa S Pavagada
- 212 Pooja Rao
- 213 Shiva Kumar Wali
- 214 Guruprasad
- 215 Maruthesh
- 216 Suresh
- 217 Arathi Mahuli
- 218 Arjun
- 219 Chaitra Ravishankar
- 220 Shambavi Ranganath
- 221 Ramesh Gururajarao
- 222 Rachana Shivpure
- 223 Ajith Keshava
- 224 Nagaranjini Raghu
- 225 Priya
- 226 Santosh
- 227 Sathyavati
- 228 Bhanumati
- 229 Vaishnavi
- 230 Srikant
- 231 Manoj
- 232 Rashmi
- 233 Jnaneshwar
- 234 Sujatha
- 235 Ramachandra
- 236 Srinidhi
- 237 Jayalakshmi
- 238 Nandini
- 239 Sowjanya
- 240 Sumana
- 241 Aishwarya
- 242 Suhas
- 243 Sri Harsha
- 244 Harsha Hegde
- 245 Ravi Hoskote
- 246 Raghu Hoskote
- 247 Achyutha
- 248 Anirudh
- 249 Kanya Ravi
- 250 Nayana
- 251 Prakash
- 252 Savitha
- 253 Shashi Kumar
- 254 Thanuja
- 255 Vidita
- 256 Shreehari Kashyap
- 257 Darshan SG
- 258 Deepak Naik