Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay
State award for contributions to Kannada cinema
Awarded forAward for creating well-woven screenplay
Sponsored byGovernment of Karnataka
Reward(s)
  • Silver Medal
  • ₹ 20,000
First awarded1967-68
Last awarded2017
Most recent winnerVenkat Bharadwaj
Highlights
Total awarded50
First winnerS. R. Puttanna Kanagal

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards. The award honors Kannada language films.

Superlative Winners

 • Sunil Kumar Desai 3 Awards
 • Girish Kasaravalli 4 Awards
 • Puttanna Kanagal 6 Awards

Award winners

The first recipient of the award is S. R. Puttanna Kanagal. For six times, multiple writers were awarded for their work in a single film; Shankar Nag and Mariam Jetpurwala for Minchina Ota (1979), Singeetam Srinivasa Rao and Chi. Udayashankar for Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma (1985, first time) and Anand (1986, second time), S. V. Rajendra Singh Babu and Ramani for Kothigalu Saar Kothigalu (2001), Prakash and M. S. Abhishek for Rishi (2004), Shashank and Raghu Kovi for Krishna Leela (2015).

The following is a complete list of award winners and the name of the films for which they won.

Year Winner Film Reference
2018 P. Sheshadri Mookajjiya Kanasugalu [1][2]
2017 Venkat Bharadwaj Kempirve
2016 Arvind Sastry Kahi [3]
2015 Shashank Krishna Leela
Raghu Kovi [4]
2014 P. Sheshadri Vidaaya [5]
2013 Jayatheertha Tony
2012 K. Y. Narayanaswamy Kalavu [6]
2011 Ravindra H. P. Das I Am Sorry Mathe Banni Preethsona [7]
2010-11 Agni Shridhar Thamassu [8]
2009-10 Guruprasad Eddelu Manjunatha [9]
2008-09 Duniya Soori Junglee [10]
2007-08 Girish Kasaravalli Gulabi Talkies [11]
2006-07 Duniya Soori Duniya [12]
2005-06 Prem Jogi [13]
2004-05 Prakash Rishi
M. S. Abhishek [14]
2003-04 Kavitha Lankesh Preethi Prema Pranaya [15]
2002-03 Kavitha Lankesh Bimba [16]
2001-02 S. V. Rajendra Singh Babu Kothigalu Saar Kothigalu
Ramani [17]
2000-01 Ashok Patil Shaapa [18]
1999-2000 D. Rajendra Babu Habba [19]
1998-99 Sunil Kumar Desai Prathyartha
1997-98 D. Rajendra Babu Jodi Hakki
1996-97 Dinesh Baboo Amrutha Varshini [20]
1995-96 Upendra Om
1994-95 H. S. Rajashekar Curfew
1993-94 Sunil Kumar Desai Nishkarsha
1992-93 S. Surendranath Aathanka
1991-92 Abdul Rehman Pasha Chukki Chandrama
1990-91 Asrar Abid Krama
1989-90 Girish Kasaravalli Mane
1988-89 Sunil Kumar Desai Tarka
1987-88 T. S. Nagabharana Aasphota
1986-87 Singeetam Srinivasa Rao Anand
Chi. Udayashankar
1985-86 Singeetam Srinivasa Rao Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma
Chi. Udayashankar
1984-85 Vasanth Mokashi Accident
1983-84 Puttanna Kanagal Amrutha Ghalige
1982-83 Mani Ratnam Pallavi Anu Pallavi
1981-82 S. V. Rajendra Singh Babu Antha
1980-81 Girish Kasaravalli Mooru Daarigalu
1979-80 Mariyam Jetpurwala Minchina Ota
Shankar Nag
1978-79 Kashinath Aparichita
1977-78 Girish Kasaravalli Ghatashraddha
1976-77 P. Lankesh Pallavi
1975-76 K. Shivaram Karanth Chomana Dudi
1974-75 Puttanna Kanagal Upasane
1973-74 Siddalingaiah Bhootayyana Maga Ayyu
1972-73 Puttanna Kanagal Naagarahaavu
1971-72 Siddalingaiah Bangaarada Manushya
1970-71 Puttanna Kanagal Sharapanjara
1969-70 Puttanna Kanagal Gejje Pooje
1968-69 Geethapriya Mannina Maga
1967-68 Puttanna Kanagal Belli Moda

See also

References

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