Shashank (born 24 June 1972) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and lyricist who works in Kannada cinema.

He went on to direct other successful films in the romance genre such as Krishnan Love Story (2010), Bachchan (2013), Krishna-Leela (2015), Mungaaru Male 2 (2016) and Love 360 (2022) He is also credited to have introduced actors Yash, Radhika Pandit, Prajwal Devraj and Neha Shetty who went on to become successful actors in Kannada cinema.

Shashank was born in a small village called Talya, in Chitradurga district, Karnataka.

His first movie as an independent director was Sixer from 2007, produced by Ramoji Rao with music composed by Hamsalekha.

[citation needed] In addition to writing screenplays, dialogues and storylines for films, he has also written song lyrics.