As lead actor 24 out of 38 Kannada movies are REMAKES

Order	Film	Year	Role	Director	Notes	Ref.
1	Sparsha	2000	Sudeep	Sunil Kumar Desai	Debut movie
2	Huchcha	2001	Sachidananda "Kiccha"	Om Prakash Rao	Remake of Sethu (film)
3	Vaalee	2001	Shiva / Deva	S. Mahendar	Remake of Tamil movie Vaali
4	Chandu	2002	Chandrashekar "Chandu"	P. A. Arun Prasad	Remake of tamil movie Kushi
5	Dhumm	2002	Varadharaj	M. S. Ramesh	Remake of tamil film Dheena
6	Nandhi	2002	Nandhi	D. Rajendra Babu	Remake of telugu film Student No.1
7	Kiccha	2003	Krishna Mohan "Kiccha"	P. A. Arun Prasad
8	Partha	2003	Partha	Om Prakash Rao	Remake of tamil film Run
9	Swathi Muthu	2003	Shivayya	D. Rajendra Babu	Remake of Tamil/Telugu film Swati Mutyam
10	Ranga (S.S.L.C)	2004	Ranga	Yogaraj Bhat
11	Nalla	2004	Prashanth "Pachhi"	V. Nagendra Prasad	Remake of Tamil movie Moondram Pirai
12	Maharaja	2005	Surya	Sai Prakash	Remake of tamil film Per Sollum Pillai
13	Kashi from Village	2005	Kashi	Om Sai Prakash	Remake of Tamil film Bagavathi
14	Sye	2005	Chakri	P. A. Arun Prasad	Remake of Tamil movie Dhill
15	Nammanna	2005	Muttanna	N. Shankar	Remake of Telugu film Anna
16	My Autograph	2006	Shankar	Sudeep	Remake of tamil film Autograph, Also producer
17	Thirupathi	2006	Thirupathi	Shivamani
18	Hubli	2006	Ajay Kumar	Om Prakash Rao
19	No 73, Shanthi Nivasa	2007	Raghu	Sudeep	Remake of Kannada movie Sakalakala Vallabha and Hindi Bawarchi
20	Gooli	2008	Gooli	P. Satya
21	Mussanjemaatu	2008	RJ Pradeep	Mussanje Mahesh
22	Kaamannana Makkalu	2008	Rama	Chi. Guru Dutt	Remake of the Malayalam movie Thommanum Makkalum
23	Mast Maja Maadi	2008	ACP Prathap	R. Ananth Raju	Remake of Hindi movie Dhamaal
24	Veera Madakari	2009	Muttatti Sathyaraju / Madakari	Sudeep	Remake of Telugu movie Vikramarkudu, Also screenwriter Dubbed for Surya Narayan
25	Just Maath Maathalli	2010	Siddharth	Sudeep	Also credited for story and dialogues	[2]
26	Mr. Theertha	2010	Theertha	Sadhu Kokila	Remake of the Malayalam movie Spadikam
27	Kiccha Huccha	2010	Krishna Murthy	Chi. Guru Dutt	Remake of the Tamil movie Chithiram Pesuthadi
28	Veera Parampare	2010	Teja	S. Narayan
29	Kempe Gowda	2011	Kempe Gowda	Sudeep	Remake of the Tamil film Singam, Also screenwriter
30	Vishnuvardhana	2011	Vishnuvardhana "Vishnu"	Pon Kumaran
31	Varadhanayaka	2013	Varadanayaka	Ayyappa P. Sharma	Remake of Telugu film Lakshyam
32	Bachchan	2013	Bharath	Shashank
33	Maanikya	2014	Vijay	Sudeep	Remake of Telugu film Mirchi, Also screenwriter	[3]
34	Ranna	2015	Bhargava Chandra/Chandu	Nanda Kishore	Remake of Telugu movie Attarintiki Daredi
35	Kotigobba 2	2016	Sathya / Shiva	K. S. Ravikumar	Bilingual film	[4]
36	Mukunda Murari	2016	Murari / Krishna	Nanda Kishore	Remake of Bollywood film OMG - Oh My God!	[5]
37	Hebbuli	2017	Ram	S. Krishna		[6]
38	The Villain	2017		Prem	Filming	[7]