Sunil Raoh

Sunil Rao (born 4 September 1978) is a Kannada cinema actor from India. He is also a playback singer who has performed for few Kannada film songs. He has acted in numerous films as a child artist and also featured in a few television series.

Personal life and family Sunil Rao comes from a family of well-known musicians. His mother B. K. Sumitra, is a prominent Sugama Sangeetha (light music) singer. His sister Sowmya Rao is also an established playback singer who has performed for various films in different languages.

Films Sunil Rao began his film career acting in some non-significant character roles in the films such as Chitra and Panchaalee. However, he shot to fame in the 2003 released English film Freaky Chakra. He starred alongside Deepti Naval as a young boy infatuated by an older woman. He also starred as a teenage lover in the Kavita Lankesh directorial Preethi Prema Pranaya opposite Anu Prabhakar, the same year. Then came his most successful Kannada film Excuse Me (2003) where he played an anti-hero character alongside Ajay Rao and Ramya.

In 2005, he starred in a series of unsuccessful films like Chappale, Masala and Sakha Sakhi. The latter was a remake of the Tamil hit Thiruda Thirudi. Most of his films during this time featured him alongside other male lead characters. Sakha Sakhi was an exception to this. In 2006, he starred in the critically acclaimed Belli Betta directed by Shivaraj Hoskere.

Following these ventures, Rao became choosy and featured in very few films in the late 2000s. Minugu opposite Pooja Gandhi was his solo release in the year 2010. Noted film maker Sunil Kumar Desai announced a film called Sarigama in 2008 with Rao and Prajwal Devaraj in the lead. This film, expected to have a 2012 release got shelved for unknown reasons.

Reports of him coming back to acting after a hiatus made news with his longtime associate director announcing his project called Bangalore Calling. It reported that Sunil would play one of the three main lead roles.

Filmography +Key Denotes films that have not yet been released

Web series Year of release Film Notes 2017 Loose Connection First Kannada webseries

As playback singer "Suvvisuvvale – Bit" - Chukki Chandrama (1993) "Baa O Preethi Baa" - Jackpot (2006) "Bottom Of My Heart" - Tiger (2017) "Joru Joraagi" - Thurthu Nirgamma (2022)

Awards He has been awarded the 'Roopakala Belli Kanmani Award' as a 'Naada shreshta Kalavida' by the 'Roopakala Utsava-25' linked with the Karnataka State in the year 2011.