some of his movie dialogues have entered common lingo; for example the extremely popular phrase of "mangalooru manjunatha" (from the film "love maadi nodu"). some of his other successful films include "anantana avantara" (1989) , "avale nanna hendthi" (1988), "ajagajantara" (1991) and "hendathi endare heegarabeku" (1995). kashinath made a prominent return when he was cast as an elderly jail inmate who gets falsely accused in his daughter's death in tharun sudhir's "chowka" (2017). his last film performance before his death in 2018, is in under-production film "ol muniswamy".