V. Nagendra Prasad

V. Nagendra Prasad is a lyricist, composer and director who predominantly works for Kannada cinema. He has written more than 3000 songs, largely for Kannada cinema.

Early life
Prasad was born on 3 December 1975. He is the elder son of M.V. Venkata Ramanappa and Chandramma of Ijjala Ghatta village in Nagamangala Taluk, Mandya District.

He completed his schooling in Doddaballapura, Bangalore and completed his Master’s degree in Kannada Literature at Manasa Gangothri, Mysore University.. Prasad obtained his D.Litt (Doctor of Literature) from Hampi University in the year 2021.

Career
V. Nagendra Prasad made his debut as a Kannada lyricist for the movie Gajina Mane directed by K. V. Jayaram in 2000. He was appreciated for his another debut as a dialogue writer for supernatural film written and directed by K. Raghavendra Rao, Sri Manjunatha. His debut as a director for Nalla featuring Sudeep was remarkable. He has also worked in music composition, direction, acting and dialogue writing for Television. He is also known to be involved in Theatre both on Stage and in Street plays. In 2018, he made his debut as a lead actor in his own directorial Googal movie. His another appearance as a lead actor in the movie Guruji.

As lyricist
V. Nagendra Prasad has penned more than 3000 songs for over a 1000 movies, 100s Devotional, Classical, Patriotic, Promotional albums and over 50 TV serials. He has worked with most of the music composers including Ilayaraja, Hamsalekha, Rajan–Nagendra, Upendra Kumar, Sadhu Kokila, Gurukiran, V. Harikrishna, Arjun Janya, Vidhya Sagar, V.Manohar, Rajesh Ramanath, Raghu Dixit, Anoop Seelin, Mano Murthy, Deva, M. M. Keeravani, Gandharva, L. N. Shastri, Jessie Gift, Chandan Shetty, Ravi Basrur, Sridhar V. Sambhram, Bharath B. J., B. Ajaneesh Loknath, Manikanth Kadri, Poornachandra Tejaswi, Manisharma, Thaman, R. P. Patnaik, Sandeep Chowta, Venkat Narayan, Gowtham Srivatsav, Vineeth Menon, D Imman, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Charan Raj and others.

Dialogue writer

 * Sri Manjunatha (2001)
 * Romeo Juliet (2002)
 * Swathi Muthu (2003)
 * Dharma (2004)
 * Shivalinga (2016)
 * Rogue (2017)
 * Muniratna Kurukshetra (2019)

Awards and nominations
Partial list of awards.