Naanu Naane

Naanu Naane is a 2002 movie directed by D. Rajendra Babu starring Upendra and Sakshi Shivanand in leading roles. The movie is a remake of Hindi movie Raja Hindustani.

2010 marked Upendra's comeback to direction after 10 years. After several ups and downs in his acting career, Upendra finally came back as a director after 10 years in 2010 with the movie Super in which he starred opposite Tamil actress Nayantara and Tulip Joshi. The movie was released in a record number of theatres all over Karnataka[38] and was also dubbed into Telugu and released in Andhra Pradesh. Super was a blockbuster,[10] breaking many box office records upon release and completing 175 days of run, becoming one of the highest grossing Kannada films of 2010 and was also critically acclaimed.[18]

Upendra then starred in several films like Shrimathi (2011) opposite his wife Priyanka Trivedi and bollywood actress Celina Jaitly, and Aarakshaka (2012). In 2012, Upendra starred in several commercially successful films like 3D fantasy film Katari Veera Surasundarangi which was declared a Super hit[39] and became the second highest grossing film of the year,[40] followed by Godfather which did above average business[39] and the horror comedy film Kalpana which also did reasonably well at the box office.[39]

Upendra's much anticipated films like Topiwala (2013) and Brahma (2014) haven't been able to meet with expectations at the box office.[10][41][42]