Chitraloka.com

Chitraloka.com is an Indian online portal for the Kannada film industry. The website was launched on 3 July 1999 by K. M. Veeresh, and it was the first website to be solely focused on Kannada cinema. The website is available both in English and Kannada. This website and Viggy.com were the only two websites that gave frequent updates regarding Kannada cinema in the first half of the early 2000s.

History
While on vacation in Singapore, photographer and journalist K. M. Veeresh realised that he could not get regular updates on Kannada cinema easily and had to call his friends to be up to date. After getting a personal computer, he decided to start his own website for news pertaining to Kannada cinema with the target audience primarily being Kannadigas overseas in the Gulf and the United States. Veeresh found it tough to get software to run the website in Kannada. The website was launched in 1999 with Parvathamma Rajkumar in attendance. On the day of launch, the website received 13,664 hits. After the launch of the website, it was run as a one-man show with Veeresh running the website of his own money and gets help when needed from his journalist friends. One year after launch, the Veeresh reported about the kidnapping of Rajkumar in full detail on the website. The website was updated once every fifteen days at that time, but as of 2009, it is updated frequently. In 2009, the website entered the Limca Book of Records for showcasing three-thousand stills of Kannada films from Sati Sulochana (1935) and Namyajamanru (2009). In 2020, the YouTube channel for the website received the Silver Creator Award and is one of the only Kannada-language channels to do so.