S Sathyendra

Life in Bangalore

He was born into a Telugu family in tiputur in Karnataka. His father Sanjevaigh was the first Circle inspector of Police after the British in Karnataka. He was mostly brought up from the age of six to 21 in Bengaluru. From the age of 11, sathyendra became a self made person due to the tragedies that happened in the family. He did all his schooling and college(Central College) in Bangalore. He has two postgraduations in Kannada literature and Philosophy and B.A in Drama and Diploma in French and German and has working knowledge in Italian and Spanish. He is well versed in world literature and has published several Articles in Kannada and English as a freelance journalist. He has also dabbled with publishing short stories, poetry and drama.

He has worked as an theatre actor with B. V. Karanth and Girish Karnad the avant-garde giants of Kannada theatre. His first film was Grahana, a Kannada film in which he played a pivotal role. The film won the silver peacock award. His second film, in which he played a character role was Rishyasringa produced by G.V.Iyer which also won several awards. He is the first television actor in karnataka in the children's film Aane banthu aane directed by Chandrashekhara Kambara. He has acted in Our Town by Thornthonwilder directed by Jacqueline Henny from the USA. He worked as an assistant director for a French documentary film dealing with possessed people in Dargha.

He worked with cultural Indologists from Germany and America in the field Shadow Puppetry and Marionettes for 2 years.

Life in Chennai

He started to chennai with three hundred rupees, bicycle on the bus not knowing a single person in chennai. After a deadly hunt for cinema soon got Ezhavathu Manithan, played a crucial role along with raghuvaran for whom also the film was a debut and the film went on to win the National and the South Asian awards. Thirty years passed and he has worked in 100 movies in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, German and Hollywood in various genres including telefilm, wild life film, TV serials, documentaries and feature films.

He then worked thirteen years as a tutor, translator, interpreter in German, French, Spanish, Italian and also dabbled in twenty other foreign languages. He has acted in more than 40 short films mostly playing the lead roles, winning a few awards for his performances. The most talked about short film Knockout by Lenin won various awards.

He has acted in a German play, French play and a Tamil play and participated in hundreds of theatre workshops conducted by world-famous European theatre personalities. He has given guest lectures on world cinema and conducted theatre workshops in prestigious colleges in chennai. He was interviewed by prestigious Tamil channels several times. He is an extremely passionate cultural enthusiast and watched more than ten thousand films. Also a great seeker of knowledge he attends hundreds of seminars and lectures every year. His presence in the cultural milleu is acknowledged by art lovers. He presently aims to direct films in the future.

Characters he played

He played mostly highly intense, psychologically and artistically demanding characters. He is known for his strong sad face, his shabby and unique beard and hairstyle and powerful eyes. The characters played are watchman, beggar, drunkard,Cobbler, drug addict, painter, movie and still cameraman, mentally retarded 3 year child, Journalist, writer, psychiatrist, voodoo black magician, professor, rapist/murderer, soft hero, thief, ward boy, Love disappointed, comic main villain, eccentric king, street singer, pickpocket, petrol bunk attendant, layman, lame and blind.

The most famous actors he played..Kamal Haasan and Amala in Satya, Raghuvaran in ezhavadhu manidhan, Mann Vasanai with revathi, Sathyaraj and Nasser in Kadamai Kanniyam Kattupaadu, Major Sundarrajan in Ennai Pol Oruvan(tele film), S. S. rajendran in CP143(a telefilm), udhiripookkal vijayan in poovurangum neram, meendum oru kaadhal kadhai with pratappothen, paatukku oru thalaivan with Vijayakanth, Mohanlal in uyarum gnyan naadakey, Nana Patekar in Giddh, Sukanya (actress) in Aanandham(tele serial), delhi ganesh in Hemavin Kaadhalargal, Kanchana (actress) in Malayalam, Vikram (actor) in En kaadhal kanmani, Vijay (actor) in priyamaanavale, Silk Smitha in Telugu, sarath babhu in Kokila, nagarjun in Chaitanya (film).

Famous directors he worked with.. 1.G. V. Iyer, 2.P. Bharathiraja, 3. Hariharan (director), 4.Vipindas(m), 5. P. N. Menon (director), Robert Rajshekar, Mouli, T.S. Ranga(k), Naagabarna(k), Pratappothen(m), Randor guy, P. Chandra kumar(m), Samuthirakani, Suresh Krissna, Santhana bharathi, J.D Jerry, Sasi, V.C. Guhanathan.

Characters played from Best Literature

Jeyakanthan's Naan irukkiren(Lead role), R.K. Narayan's Blind Dog, (Lead Role),Dostoyevsky's The Honest thief(lead role).

Filmography

Feature Films

Short and Tele films

Serials