A not so great year for Kannada cinema, with 15% success rate, notable films that were successful include Veera Madakari, Thaakath, Junglee, Ambari, Love Guru, Manasaare, and Eddelu Manjunatha.
Duniya Vijay with 2 hits, Sudeep and Jaggesh back with their box office glory, Diganth, Yogesh and Ajay Rao also had their share of success.
Aindrita Ray scored 2 big hits with Junglee and Manasaare, Yagna Shetty and Radhika Pandit grabbed all the awards for their performances in Eddelu Manjunatha and Love Guru.
Shubha Poonja for Thaakath, Pooja Gandhi for Gokula and Ragini Dwivedi for Veera Madakari had a decent year too.
[1] The highest-grossing Kannada films released in 2009, by worldwide box office gross revenue, are as follows.