Yogaraj Bhat

Yogaraj Bhat (born 8 October 1973) is an Indian Kannada film director, lyricist, producer, and screenwriter. He is most predominantly known for the 2006 film Mungaru Male. The film recorded the highest box-office collections in the history of Kannada cinema and currently holds the record for the longest-running film at a multiplex. He is considered as a cult filmmaker in the industry who brought a new wave of freshness to cinemas through his films, dialogues, and songs. Bhat is given the credit of introducing some of the very talented technicians and artists to the film industry.

When only Tamil and Telugu Film Industries were considered the southern film industry in terms of commercial films and when a Rs.20 crore budgeted Telugu or Tamil film, grossing Rs.30 crore was considered a blockbuster hit, a silent revolution took place in the Kannada Film Industry in the name of Mungaru Male. That was the year 2006-2007. A sheer Rs.1.5 crore budgeted movie grossed more than 70 crore, creating the biggest grosser in the Southern Film Industry.

In 2007, People said it’s a record hard to break. In 2016, people still have to say, it’s a record hard to break in Southern Film Industry. After his apprenticeship in the Television Industry for half a decade, where he learned the art of writing and directing, Yogaraj Bhat started his film career as an assistant to renowned cinematographer Shri S.Ramachandra, then moving on to assist world renowned Filmmaker Shri Girish Kasaravalli, and later the legendary filmmaker Shri V. Ravichandran.