Dr. Puneeth Rajkumar

What strikes me about Puneeth Rajkumar is how he refused to coast on a famous surname. Being the youngest son of a legendary matinee idol could have made him lazy; instead he grinded from child roles to 32 lead films, then layered on singing, producing and hosting. The nickname Appu tells you everything about how Kannada audiences felt about him. His death at 46 in 2021 still lands as a gut punch to me, because his catalogue suggests a career that was deepening, not winding down. I'd rather measure him by the warmth he generated than by raw box-office numbers.

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Name (English)

Dr. Puneeth Rajkumar

Name (Japanese)

プニート・ラージクマール

Reading

ぷにーと・らーじくまーる

Born

March 17, 1975 – October 29, 2021

Origin

Chennai, Chennai district, India

Occupation

actor / record producer / playback singer / television presenter / film producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rabbit

Awards & achievements

• Filmfare Awards South

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/puneethrajkumar.official/
• Xhttps://x.com/PuneethRajkumar
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puneeth%20Rajkumar
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%97%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AF%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3351697

Tags

• Chennai district
• actor
• record producer
• playback singer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.