Thus began his career in Sandalwood.ĭhananjaya with the cast and crew at the presentation of the film ‘Allama’, during the 47th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2016), in Panaji, Goa on 26 November 2016. During one of his performances in a drama, he was recognised by popular Kannada director Guruprasad and was offered a lead role in a feature film.

He was also recognized and mentored by Germany theatre artist Christian Stückl in Germany. However, he started taking acting more seriously and joined an amateur theatre group called GPIER which was headed and mentored by a senior Rangayana artist named Mime Ramesh. He even got a job in a software company, Infosys. ĭhananjaya then moved to Mysore for higher studies and having completed his PUC in Marimallappa College, he secured an engineering seat in one of the reputed engineering colleges in Mysore, SJCE. Rajkumar movies and hence he started acting in dramas, mono-acting competitions and street plays while he was still in school. Dhananjaya excelled in studies and had secured top marks for the whole of Hassan District once when he was in 7th standard and then again in 10th standard. His father was a government primary school teacher.

2.3 Producer, lyricist and a writer & Directorĭhananjaya was born on 23 August 1986 to Adaviswamy and Savitramma in Kalenahalli Arsikere, a village in Hassan district, Karnataka.

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