PRK Productions
Private Limited company
FounderPuneeth Rajkumar
FoundedJuly 20, 2017 (age 9)
Key peopleAshwini Puneeth Rajkumar[1]
IndustryMotion pictures
ProductsFilm production
ServicesFilm production
Music
Hq location cityBangalore
Hq location countryIndia
SubsidiariesPRK Audio

PRK Productions is an Indian film production company founded by Puneeth Rajkumar and managed by his wife, Ashwini Puneeth Rajkumar.[2][3]

History

PRK Productions was founded on 20 July 2017.[1] The production house made its feature film debut with Kavaludaari (2019), a neo-noir thriller film starring Rishi and Anant Nag.[4] The studio's next film was Mayabazar 2016 (2020), which featured an ensemble cast of Raj B. Shetty, Vasishta N. Simha, and Prakash Raj.[5] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the production house's next two ventures, Law and French Biriyani, were directly released on Amazon Prime Video in 2020.[3] Law marked the film debut of Ragini, Prajwal Devaraj's wife.[6] French Biriyani starred Danish Sait and Sal Yusuf marked the film debut of TikToker Disha Madan.[7]

The next three films of the banner- One Cut Two Cut starring Danish Sait, Family Pack starring Likith Shetty and Amrutha Iyengar and Man of the Match directed by D.Satya Prakash of Rama Rama Re fame were a direct release on Amazon Prime Video.[8][9] Their next release was Gandhadagudi, the last film of late Puneeth Rajkumar, directed by the National Award winner AmoghaVarasha JS.[10]

Ashwini took over the production house fully after Puneeth's death in October 2021 and continued their objective of supporting and bring in fresh faces and ideas into the industry.[11] In 2023, they released the comedy drama movie Aachar & Co. directed and acted by Sindhu Sreenivas Murthy with a majority of cast as newbies and women.[12][13] The movie opened to positive to mixed reviews from critics but ran to full theatres with family audience across Karnataka for around 25 days.[14][15]

To celebrate the birth anniversary of Puneeth, Ashwini joined hands with KRG Studios to re-release one of his most celebrated movie Jackie on 15 March 2024.[16]

Filmography

List of film credits
YearTitleDirectorCastNotes
2019KavaludaariHemanth M. RaoRishi, Anant Nag, Roshni Prakash, Achyuth Kumar[4]
2020Mayabazar 2016Radhakrishna ReddyRaj.B.Shetty, Vasishta, Achyuth Kumar, Chaithra Rao[5]
LawRaghu SamarthRagini Prajwal[17]
French BiriyaniPannaga BharanaDanish Sait, Sal Yusuf[18]
2022One Cut Two CutVamshidhar BhograjDanish Sait, Samyukta Hornad[19]
Family PackArjun Kumar SLikith Shetty, Amrutha Iyengar[20]
Man of the MatchD. Satya PrakashNataraj S Bhat, Dharmanna Kadooru[21]
Gandhada GudiAmoghavarsha JSPuneeth Rajkumar, Amoghavarsha JS[22]
2023Aachar & CoSindhu Srinivasa MurthySindhu Srinivasa Murthy, Ashok, Sudha Belawadi and others[23][24]
2024O2Raaghav Nayak
Prashanth Raj		Ashika Rangnath, Praveen Tej and Others[25]
2025EkkaRohit PadakiYuva Rajkumar, Sanjana Anand, Sampada Hulivana[26]

References

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  24. ^ "ಈ ವಾರ ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ ಪುನೀತ್‌ ರಾಜ್‌ಕುಮಾರ್ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣದ ʻಆಚಾರ್ ಆ್ಯಂಡ್ ಕೋʼ ಸಿನಿಮಾ ತೆರೆಗೆ!". Vistara news. 26 July 2023.
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