Agni Shridhar

Agni Shridhar is a Kannada former gangster, writer, critic and artist. He founded Karunada Sene. Later he founded the weekly Kannada newspaper Agni, and turned a professional writer. He has written a book called "Daadagiriya Dinagalu", meaning the days of Goondaism.

He hails from Channapattana and studied in Bangalore.

Literary works

 * He has scripted a play called Edegarike.
 * He has scripted a film with Girish Karnad called Aa dinagalu which is derived from his Daadagiriya Dinagalu written on Bengaluru crime of 1986.
 * His directorial debut movie Thamassu
 * He scripted a film in 2022 called Head bush. Which is directed by shoonya.

Awards
Thamassu directed by Agni Shridhar was adjudged as the second best film in the Karnataka State Film Awards for the year 2010-11. He also won the Best Screen Play writer award for the same movie.