Yogaraj Bhat

Yogaraj Bhat is a Kannada film director, writer (Lyrics, story, screenplay), Playback singer & producer with more than 10 movies to his credit. Yograj became famous after his box office super hit Mungaru Male.

Childhood, Family & Personal Life

Yogaraj Bhat was born on Monday, 8 October 1973 in Thilavalli, Haveri, Karnataka to Jayalakshmi Bhat(Mother) & Ramachandra Bhat(Father). His parents are basically from Dakshina Kannada. His parents have a hotel business.

He has six siblings. Prakash bhat is one of his elder brothers ,he is an Engineer by profession.

He is married to Renuka Bhat & has two children, a son named Punarvasu Bhat and a daughter named Panchami Bhat.

Yogaraj Bhat family: wife Renuka Bhat and daughter Punarvasu Bhat.

Education: He was good at studies, his elder brothers wanted him to study Diploma after SSLC, but Yogaraj Bhat's appetite for food did not let him leave his home to go to the city to study. He is a graduate with expertise in both Kannada & Hindi. He joined for M.A in Mysore, but later discontinued. He wanted to do M.A & L.L.B, he was influenced by the writing of one of his favorite writers & gave up further studies.

Movie Career

Yogaraj Bhat had a friend Suresh (L.L.B) in Mysore (when he was studying M.A) who introduced him to the English movies. Yogaraj bhat was already a fan of English Literature, he watched numerous good movies of Hollywood with subtitles & liked the idea of getting into movies.

Yogaraj Bhat came to film industry at the age of 22, he wanted to be a Cameraman initially, he was very much  into cinematography.

TV Career:

When he was 28 he was given the opportunity to direct the TV serial Chakra(2001). Saadhane was another serial he wrote & directed.

He has also been a judge in the comedy reality show "Comedy Kiladigalu".

Movies

Yogaraj Bhat was an associate director in the film Kraurya(1996), it was directed by Girish Kasaravalli.

Movie Debut: Mani(2003) was Yogaraj Bhat's debut movie, it was a romantic movie starring Radhika Kumaraswamy, Mayur Patel. It was a critically acclaimed movie with 4 state awards.

He has diercted corporate films & documentaries in between.

Mungaru Male(2006) is his most popular movie so far. It has been one of the biggest grosser in the entire South India, not just Kannada film industry.

He started his acting career with the film Dyavre directed by one of his assistants.

Yogaraj Bhat is popular for his simplicity, his humorous dialogues, uniqueness of characters are his specialities.

Lyrics & Writing: starting from his first movie Mani Yogaraj started writing Lyrics, Mungaru Male songs brought him the popularity. He frequently writes lyrics for his movies. Almost all his movies feature at least a song of his. 

His lyrics are often humorous, melodious, with message, sometimes without message, contradictory. Simple contemporary language with the capacity to make the audience feel special about it are his positives.

Yogaraj Bhat and Duniya soori are very good friends & can be seen collaborating with each other's works.