Mangalore : Prajwal alias Kartik Shetty, son of Vijay Shetty, who basically hails from Nakre – Kedike, Karkala of Dakshina Kannada is a name in Sandalwood film industry. He was born on 4th July 1987 and was brought up in Mumbai. He has done his BA from Jaihind College, Mumbai.  He has a passion of horse riding and later changes his hobby and became a professional trained horse rider and horse trainer.
Karthik started his career as a theater actor at an age of 8. As a child artist he has acted in many Tulu and Hindi plays under the banner of Chandra Prakash Theatre, Mumbai. He is a recipient of Tulu Sahithya Academy appreciation award as a child theatre artist.
Before joining the film industry as an actor, Karthik got himself trained in all the essential aspects such as dance, fights and acting under the various masters of Bollywood. He has also pursued courses in script writing and direction. He is also a distant relative of Kannada music director Gurukiran.
Karthik played his debut in Kannada film ‘Yuva’ opposite Telugu actor Madhu Sharma in the female lead. He is master in film making from digital academy Mumbai and assisted renowned film
director Mahesh Manjrekar for 3 years.  Karthik is black belt in marshal art and even trained in mix marshal art in Singapore.
Now his next movie ‘Karthik’ directed by Sathish Shetty of Mangalore is soon to be released at all theatres in the second week of January which is an action movie with a romantic twist.