{"id":17383,"date":"2015-03-05T14:08:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=17383"},"modified":"2015-03-05T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:10:17","slug":"techie-turns-movie-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=17383","title":{"rendered":"Techie turns movie director"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1) Film director Anup Bhandari 2) Poster of the film<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anup Bhandari directed Rangitaranga Kannada movie to release soon<\/p>\n

Joining the list of young movie directors in the country is our city\u2019s own Anup Bhandari. Having graduated in Information Science from Vidya Vikas College of Engineering in city, Anup has been successful in fulfilling his dream of directing a full-fledged Kannada movie.<\/p>\n

A resident of Siddarthanagar in Mysuru, Anup has drawn inspiration from his father Sudhakar Saaja (Sudhakar Bhandari), who is involved in the industry for more than 30 years. Anup developed his interest in music at a young age. In fact, Anup is also gifted with a good voice.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Star of Mysore, Anup said that his interest to direct a movie developed when he was working on a movie script written by his father.<\/p>\n

On getting a nod from his father, Anup engrossed himself in the movies and directed short films while working for a software company in the US. In fact, one of his short films, \u2018Words,\u2019 starring Oscar-nominee Russel Harvard of \u2018There Will Be Blood\u2019 fame has been screened in many International Film Festivals.<\/p>\n

Anup said that Sudhakar Saaja, his father, helped him in handling the production department so that he could concentrate on the creative part of the movie more efficiently. Another specialty of the movie is that Nirup Bhandari, Anup\u2019s younger brother, is being launched as the lead actor.<\/p>\n

Nirup Bhandari, who is also a software engineer by profession, has undergone rigorous training in acting from MISFIT, a Bengaluru-based acting school and has also learnt hip-hop from Sridharan Pillai. After having done theatre for about three years, Nirup is being launched through Rangitaranga directed by Anup Bhandari.<\/p>\n

Anup said that Nirup was not the first choice for the movie and that he had approached actor Rakshith Shetty for the role. As Rakshith was not available for the next three months, H.K. Prakash, producer of the movie, decided to launch Nirup as the lead character. Prakash had also seen Nirup\u2019s acting skills in a tele-serial \u2018Advocate Arjun\u2019 directed by Sudhakar Saaja where he played a character of a psychopathic killer.<\/p>\n

Any new director would have chosen a mass-movie subject, mixed with commercial elements, but Anup has preferred to launch himself with a movie filled with mystery and commercial elements. On asking the reason for choosing mystery as the subject, Anup said that he was always interested in mysteries and wanted to bring a new dimension to Kannada movies.<\/p>\n

For Anup, it has not been easy working for a movie over the past one-and-a-half years. Neetha, his wife and Nishka, his three-year-old daughter, have been living in the US and Neetha continues to work in a software firm.<\/p>\n

Anup added that he travelled to the US once in every 3-4 months to meet his wife and daughter or they would come down to India to visit him. Anup\u2019s mother Rathna Bhandari has also been supporting him in all his endeavours.<\/p>\n

Sudhakar Bhandari, who has been looking into the production of \u2018Rangitaranga,\u2019 said that initially he never wanted his sons to enter the film industry. In his words, \u201cI never wanted to put all the eggs in the same basket.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sudhakar added that though he gave his approval for Anup\u2019s entry into the film industry, he had apprehensions over Nirup\u2019s entry into films. \u201cBefore deciding on Nirup, we consulted many seniors in the industry to seek their opinion and guidance. Only when we received a positive opinion to cast a new face in the movie, we decided on launching Nirup in the lead role. Moreover, it was producer H.K. Prakash who wanted to launch Nirup,\u201d he added. Sudhakar also remembered the support extended by Sai Kumar, who is popularly known as \u2018Dialogue King\u2019 in Kannada Film Industry. With the trio, father and sons, having worked hard to bring a new dimension into the movie, we hope Rangitaranga is received well by the audience.<\/p>\n

\u2014 S.N. Venkatnag Sobers<\/b><\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.starofmysore.com \/ Star of Mysore \/ Home> Feature Articles \/ Friday \u2013 February 27th, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anup Bhandari directed Rangitaranga Kannada movie to release soon Joining the list of young movie directors in the country is our city\u2019s own Anup Bhandari. Having graduated in Information Science from Vidya Vikas College of Engineering in city, Anup has been successful in fulfilling his dream of directing a full-fledged Kannada movie. A resident of … Continue reading Techie turns movie director<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17389,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383\/revisions\/17389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}