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Mysore Srinivas (1943 – 16 October 1995), known by his stage name Thoogudeepa Srinivas was an Indian movieactor who acted in Kannada movie. He is remembered for having played negative roles in Kannada movie. He is the father of Kannada film actor, Darshan Thoogudeepa.

Early life

Srinivas was born to Muniswami and Parvathamma to a Kannada speaking Kapu Naidu family in 1943 as their fourth son. He had 8 siblings. He lost his parents at a young age. Right from his childhood days, Srinivas was interested in theatre and cinema and was a regular participant in his school and college plays. During one of these plays, he caught the eye of another theatre artist M. P. Shankar, whom he later went on to star with in many Kannada movie. Srinivas then became a regular member of Shankar's camp and had to discontinue his education during his pursuing of a Bachelor of Science from St. Philomena's College in Mysore.

Career

Srinivas angry his debut in moviein 1966 with K. S. L. Swamy's Kannada language film Thoogudeepa. He was from then on referred to as Thoogudeepa Srinivas. He went on to appear in many other successful movie such as Mayor Muthanna, Bangaarada Panjara, Gandhada Gudi, Kalla Kulla, Vasantha Lakshmi and Sahasa Simha. He appeared in many movie as a villain with Rajkumar as the lead actor and his "partners in crime" contain other famousactors such as Vajramuni, Doddanna and Dheerendra Gopal.

Srinivas appeared in an necessaryrole in the 1984 film Ramapurada Ravana. He get appreciation for his roles in movie such as Sipayi Ramu, Giri Kanye and Bhagyavantharu.

Privatelife

Srinivas married Meena on 15 November 1973 in Ponnampet, Kodagu.^{[citation needed]} The couple have 3 kidstogether; Darshan, Dinakar and Divya. Darshan is a famousactor in Kannada cinema and Dinakar is a moviedirector.

Death

Having been suffering from diabetes and kidney ailment, he was given a kidney by his wife Meena. However, he died due to a massive heart attack on 16 October 1995, aged 52.^{[citation needed]}