This picture was taken at my aunt’s house in Yeshwanthpur, 20 years ago when I was six- years-old and my brother, Sharadh Krishnappa, was three. Like most boys, Sharadh too loved bikes. He would spend hours playing on my father’s old scooter. Even in this picture, we are pretending to go somewhere on the scooter.
We would always play together and occasionally fight. But I was very protective about him. My cousins wouldn’t miss a chance to tease me. They would say that they all had brothers but none of them were as protective about them as I.
We did our primary school at New Cambridge English School in Vijayanagar.
We would cycle to school together till he entered high school after which we would go with our own set of friends.
Those days, my father would encourage us to write a lot. So whenever we wanted to go to a cousin’s house or wanted something else to be done, he would make us write a poem or a short story. So once, my brother wrote a poem with my help and my father was quite impressed.
I couldn’t help but interrupt saying that I had helped him write the poem. My brother was so furious that he said he would never come to me for any help!
The two of us were always up to all kinds of mischief. When I completed class ten, my parents gifted me a brand new black Kinetic Honda. We wanted to make it look cooler. So we stayed up all night trying to turn it into something else.
We ended up scratching the markings on the bike and removing the stickers with a blade. We also dismantled the mirrors.
The next morning, my father saw what we had done to the brand new scooter and was furious. e were grounded for a couple of days! I completed my high school education at Vidya Peeta, graduation from Christ College and masters in Mass Communication from Bangalore University. My brother went on to study at AV Education in JP Nagar and completed his engineering from MVJ College of Engineering. But we both grew up to be very different people. While I am an extremely outgoing person, my brother is the opposite. I ventured into the world of cinema and he chose to become a software professional.
We have a lot of common interests like chess but I never win a game against him!
He loves sports and even played for the ultimate frisbee national tournament
while I am not a sportsperson at all. He watches more movies and listens to a lot more music than me.
Sharadh is proud of my choice of scripts and the fact that I don’t do just any movie for the sake of quantity or popularity.
When my movie ‘Simple Agi Ondu Love Story’ released, his office held a special screening of it and I was invited to be a part of it.
The little things that we have done together and that he has done for me are not only encouraging but have left behind a host of fond memories.