Karthik Attavar or also known as Karthik Banjan is a Kannada film and television actor, who started his career in the Coastalwood film, 'Rickshaw Driver'. This film won the prestigious Karnataka State Film Award for Best Regional Film. Karthik was working for a software company before he ventured into acting. The director of Yashode spotted him on one of the songs he did in Rickshaw Driver and offered him for a lead role in the Kannada teleserial.