Nirup Bhandari

Birth : 1984-08-13, Puttur, Karnataka, India

History

An engineering and a dancer Nirup Bhandari is the son of director Sudhakar Bhandari. Nirup, who has learned dancing under Sridharan Pillai, had appeared in the movie Jolly Picnic as a child artist. It was in 2015 that he made his debut as an actor with the critically acclaimed Kannada movie RangiTaranga, which was directed by his elder brother Anup Bhandari. Nirup has also starred on the TV show Advocate Arjun, wherein he essayed the role of a psychopath. He is associated with the bilingual movies Rajaratha and Rajaratham, directed by Anup Bhandari. His 2019 release includes Aadi Lakshmi Puraana, directed by Priya V.

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Movies

Vikrant Rona

Sanjeev Gambhira aka Sanju

Almost half a century ago, a remote village in the middle of a tropical rain forest starts witnessing a series of unexplainable events which they attribute to the supernatural. Vikrant Rona, An eccentric police officer, is assigned to solve the mystery. A mysterious game unfolds where everyone in the village is a potential victim and everyone is a suspect.

Window Seat

Window Seat is an upcoming Kannada movie directed by Sheetal Shetty starring Nirup Bhandari, Sanjana Anand & Amrutha Iyengar in the lead. The movie also marks Sheetal's feature film debut.

Aadi Lakshmi Puraana

Aadhi

Aaditya is an investigation officer, who is pursuing the drug mafia in the country. Lakshmi is a happy-go-lucky girl, working in a travel agency and living life through pranks and innocent lies. When Aadi and Lakshmi’s paths cross, there is a love story waiting to happen.

Rajaratha

Abhi

Rajaratha is a 2018 Indian Kannada romantic comedy film written and directed by Anup Bhandari who also composed the film's music. It stars Nirup Bhandari and Avantika Shetty in the lead roles in their second collaboration with the director after the success of RangiTaranga. The film was dubbed in Telugu as Rajaratham (English: Royal Chariot) with Rana Daggubati replacing Puneeth Rajkumar as the narrator. Arya, who made his debut in Kannada cinema for the first time with the film, features in a supporting role alongside P. Ravishankar and Sruthi Hariharan.

RangiTaranga

Gautam Suvarna / Siddarth

Mysterious events begin to unfold after a reclusive novelist and his wife move back to her ancestral village, followed by a journalist.