OrangeKannadaka Vihaan(Keerthi) is a two-time national level award winning actor/writer/director and editor who has worked in around 150 short films/Ad-films and around 4 Kannada feature films till now.
He is currently directing and acting in a first of its kind feature film in Sandalwood. “Virgin Vaishali” is the pitch short film, he made for the same. The film has become viral and it also recently got added in the “INTERNATIONAL BOOK OF RECORDS”.
His short film ‘Navilugari’ has won at the Bangalore international short film festival and Goa short film carnival in 2014
His Ad ‘RajmaUpma’ won the national level ad film competition ‘CrashthePepsiIPL’ in 2015
He was selected as one of the “75 Creative minds of tomorrow” from across the country and was felicitated by the honorable union minister of Sports, Youth Affairs and Information and Broadcasting Sri. Anurag Singh Thakur in Nov, 2021.
He is the founder of “Fun Film technology”, a first of its kind technique in the country to teach film making to film aspirants in the quickest and the most effective way possible.
He runs a film making company called Goldenagefilmhouse.
He has inspired more than 6000 film aspirants to pursue film-making in the last 10 years through various workshops, seminars and other initiatives (both online and offline) .
He has acted in 3-4 feature films in Kannada, also worked as an associate director for a Kannada feature film.
He started a new brand/YouTube channel called “OrangeKannadaka” in 2019, to share his film making knowledge and Positive/Motivational thoughts in Kannada language.
He is an engineer turned film maker and hence follows an engineering approach in making and teaching films.