Dropping out of engineering to start a career as a cinema news reporter for a local media channel in 2009 and later in 2012 serving as an anchor for U2 Udaya Music TV channel Naveen Shankar is a multitalented theatre and film actor He has been a constant fixture on the theatre scene since 2010 under the Rajamarg Art Culture and Drama Academy During the three years that Naveen was with them he acted in more than 45 stage shows and 200 street plays for social awareness involving eight different production banners He has also acted in several TV serials and various short films In 2018 Naveen made his silver screen acting debut with Janardhan Chikkannas cybercrime thriller Gultoo The movie which marks Janardhans debut as well also has Sonu Gowda Avinash and Rangayana Raghu in pivotal roles
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