Talakadu Srinivasaiah Nagabharana (born 23 January 1953), commonly known as T. S. Nagabharana, is an Indian film director, in the Kannada film industry and a pioneer of parallel cinema. He is one of the few film directors to have straddled the mainstream and parallel cinema worlds. He has made thirty-six films in Kannada which have earned him ten national awards, twenty-three state awards, and eight films have entered into Indian Panorama in International Film Festivals.