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In this Indian name, the name Datatreya is a patronymic, not a family name, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Satya Prakash.

D SATYA PRAKASH

Datatreya Satya Prakash(born 20th April 1984), commonly known as Satya Prakash, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in Kannada film industry. The Government of Karnataka honored him with the best debut director state award in the year 2016-2017, acknowledging his contributions to film Rama rama re…

Early life
D Satya Prakash hails from his native Kadur, partial schooling at Hasan St.Joseph’s and pre-University college at Bangalore.Coming from a nonfilm family, D Satya Prakash had not developed interest towards films initially. However Satya's Interest lied on Cricket, but due to circumstances Satya Prakash could not pursue cricket as his career, D Satya Prakash Back in his school days,along with his friends they often wrote and presented 20-minute skits. He also acted in dramas that his grandfather directed. Much later he dropped out of college and had to take a year break and be present at the coffee works retail outlet of his family-run business at his native Kadur, the only company he had there was of books, Satya Prakash later takes up a diploma in computer networking at Shimoga polytechnic college.

Film Career
At end of the final year semester of his diploma D Satya Prakash chooses to quit college and try exploring a career in film as his affinity towards storytelling and reading makes him travel to Bangalore seeking opportunity in Kannada film Industry with parallel part-time jobs in the field of computer networking to survive in the city.

Beginnings: 2007
Lack of opportunity triggered him to make his own short film, along with his then-roommate, Late Ravi he made his first short film called Mamparu, the next short film Hegoona [] was a film submitted for a short film competition and yet another short film called Sum , which won his first recognition as best cinematographer for D Satya Prakash along with which it was selected as one of the top 3 best short film from a regional Kannada news channel called Janashree In 2007 D Satya Prakash gets his initial break in the film Industry to work as an assistant to National award-winning director T.S.Nagabharna and the next 4 years D Satya Prakash credits his learning from T.S Nagabharna by taking up multiple roles in different projects in filmmaking which made him familiar with the film industries terms and conditions.

Early years and struggle: 2008-2016
•	Worked as an Assistant to Director by Mr. T.S. Nagabharana.

•	Written a story for the movie “Happy new year” which contains five different stories directed by Mr.Pannaga bharana.

•	Dialogue writer for the movie “Endendigu” directed by Imaran Sardariya

•	Wrote screenplay for the movie “Bhagyaraj” directed by Mr. Deepak Madhuvanahalli

•	wrote dialogues for the movie “URVI” directed by Mr.PradeepVarma  ]

Debut Feature Film: 2013 – 2016
D Satya Prakash, started a Production house by name Kannada Kolour cinemasSelf-funded the film with fellow teammates cash and kind support, D Satya Prakash completes the film and credits the rest of the team to have stuck by him till the end. The complete struggle of the making of RAMA RAMA RE… is being documented as a book, which will be published soon, that is penned by B Siddagangaiah Kambal.

Breakthrough: 2016
The Film Rama Rama Re… released on 21st October 2016 The film got an overwhelming response from the crowd and the film industry celebrities in support of the film.

Shashiprasad SM of Deccan Chronicle gave the film 4/5 stars, saying, "An ‘unmissable’ journey of life and death." He also said "Loved every bit of it. Undoubtedly the best feature film of the year."

Sunayana Suresh from The Times of India rated the movie as 4/5 mentioning that "The narrative is definitely the king here, complemented beautifully with a strong cast and crew."

The Hindu “Rama Rama Re unfolds like a song, one that will linger longer in your mind, much after you’ve left the theatre.

Archana Nathan of The Hindu wrote, "Rama Rama Re unfolds like a song, one that will linger longer in your mind, much after you’ve left the theater."

Future endevoure
Established producer such as Umapathy films[], who has previously produced films such as Hebbuli with Super Star Kichha Sudeep, has now offered D Satya Prakash to make his next film in their production house.

References/Notes and references
New Indian Express Upcoming projects and book on making of the film rama rama re... article by A Sharadhaa[][]

Times of India Best Debutant Director []

Deccan Herald D Satya Prakash Interview [][] Worked in other projects as writer []