Upendra is a cine actor, director, script writer and singer. Born in a middle class family at Koteshwara

Koteshwara

Koteshwara, sometimes transcribed Koteshwar, is a village in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located in Kundapura taluk of Udupi district. As of 2007 21,100 people lived in the village....

 near Kundapura

Kundapura

-Languages and culture :The town mainly consists of Kannadigas who speak Kundagannada, Konkanis and Tuluvas. The Goud Saraswat Brahmins who fled Goa during the Portuguese arrival in the 16th century arrived by Boat in Basrur and some settled in Kundapura and surrounding villages. These people and...

, he belongs to Kannada

Kannada language

Kannada or , is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Karnataka. Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas and number roughly 50 million, is one of the 30 most spoken languages in the world...

 speaking Kota Brahmin community. Upendra started his career off with famous director Kashinath

Kashinath

Kashinath is an actor and a director in the Kannada Film Industry in India, generally known in the industry as a trend setter. He probably started the trend of acting, directing, music directing and the producing of films...

 as a writer and an assistant director. His first directorial venture was Tharle Nan Maga

Tharle Nan Maga

Tharle Nan Maga is a Kannada film released in 1992. The film marked debut of Upendra as director, Jaggesh as a lead actor and Anjali as their lead actress. -Plot:...

. He is the first Indian actor to have ever acted as a robot movie when he made the movie Hollywood

Hollywood (Kannada film)

Hollywood is a 2002 sci-fi Kannada movie directed by Dinesh Babu. It starred the Sandalwood Superstar Upendra in a triple role as "Surendra," "Upendra" and "US 47" along with the Australian actress Felicity Mason as "Manisha." The movie was dubbed into Telugu the following year retaining the same...

 directed by Dinesh Babu.

In the late 90s he broke into the scene with the extremely violent Om, which portrayed actual Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

 gangsters, and this movie is still yet to be released in CDs and DVDs.