Film analysisBoth the films trace the journey of a flawed male protagonist but the treatment is very different.Vinay Kumar VThe Kannada film industry has been around for 85 years. In the last eight decades, the industry has notched up numerous achievements, won critical acclaim, and received awards from across the world. But, it began to slowly wither and crumble since the 2000s. The industry’s fall was marked by a decline in the quality of movies made, money invested, and the number of screens playing Kannada movies also shrank. But then, things changed a little somewhere in the middle of the last decade. The 2006 hit Mungaru Male brought the Kannada audience back to theatres in large numbers. In 2013, India’s nomination for the Academy Awards was the Kannada movie Lucia, and a steady but shaky growth was noticeable. In 2016, to borrow Nisha Susan’s words, Kannada cinema was “having something...
- 1/19/2020
- by Vidya
- The News Minute
SandalwoodThe film is the Kannada remake of the Tamil film '96' which released in 2018.Tnm StaffThe trailer for the Kannada film 99, a remake of the critically acclaimed 2018 Tamil film 96, was released on Tuesday. Actor Ganesh of Mungaaru Male fame is back on the silver screen, starring in a lead role opposite Bhavana. The two of them are reprising the roles played by Vijay Sethupathi and Trisha in the Tamil film. The film is directed by Preetham Gubbi and will release on April 26. The opening sequences of the trailer shows Ganesh at the school he studied in when growing up. There are a number of sequences set in the school in the film based on the characters portrayed by Ganesh and Bhavana, Actors Hemanth and Samiksha will play the younger versions of the lead pair in 99. The trailer has also caught the attention of fellow actor Sudeep. "It reminded me of my own film,...
- 4/17/2019
- by Prajwal
- The News Minute
P awan Kumar’s Kannada-language feature film Lucia has won the Audience Award at London Indian Film Festival, winning accolades for its imaginative storytelling as well as for being the first crowd-funded Kannada film.
Set in the cosmopolitan city of Bangalore, Lucia is a psychological thriller about an usher in a cinema hall who sees weird dreams which start affecting his reality.
Shreshtha Trivedi speaks to director Pawan Kumar about “Project Lucia”, crowd-funding and why he wasn’t allowed to watch Kannada films as a child.
How did the idea of Lucia come about ?
I fell asleep on a couch one day and had a strange feeling that I’m in a dream right now. And there was another memory of somebody knocking and I’m opening the door. So the film is about dreams. This is one strand. Second, I also act. I had done this very popular film...
Set in the cosmopolitan city of Bangalore, Lucia is a psychological thriller about an usher in a cinema hall who sees weird dreams which start affecting his reality.
Shreshtha Trivedi speaks to director Pawan Kumar about “Project Lucia”, crowd-funding and why he wasn’t allowed to watch Kannada films as a child.
How did the idea of Lucia come about ?
I fell asleep on a couch one day and had a strange feeling that I’m in a dream right now. And there was another memory of somebody knocking and I’m opening the door. So the film is about dreams. This is one strand. Second, I also act. I had done this very popular film...
- 8/6/2013
- by Shreshtha Trivedi
- DearCinema.com
Kannada, Film: ‘Mathe Mungaru’; Producer: E. Krishnappa; Director: Dwarki Raghava; Music: X. Paul Raj; Camera: Sundaranath Suvarna; Art Director: Mohan G. Kere; Cast: Sreenagara Kitty, Rachana Malhotra, Ravishankar, Sushma Bharadwaj, Neenasam Aswath, Muni. Rating: ***
Producer E. Krishnappa, who has already made a big name in the Kannada film industry by churning out much appreciated and successful films like ‘Mungaru Male’ and ‘Moggina Manasu’, has won his third battle.
The politician-industrialist-turned-filmmaker.
Producer E. Krishnappa, who has already made a big name in the Kannada film industry by churning out much appreciated and successful films like ‘Mungaru Male’ and ‘Moggina Manasu’, has won his third battle.
The politician-industrialist-turned-filmmaker.
- 8/7/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Film: ‘Ullasa Uthsaha’; Cast: Ganesh, Yami Gautham, Rangayana Raghu, Sharan and others; Director: Devaraj Palan; Producer: Thyagaraju; Music Director: G.V. Prakash Kumar; Rating: ***
Ganesh has been lucky with romantic comedies ever since he hit the jackpot with blockbuster ‘Mungaru Male’. He tried to reinvent himself in action-based stories, but it didn’t work and a dip was witnessed in his popularity. Sensing that he has to do what audience expected from him, Ganesh.
Ganesh has been lucky with romantic comedies ever since he hit the jackpot with blockbuster ‘Mungaru Male’. He tried to reinvent himself in action-based stories, but it didn’t work and a dip was witnessed in his popularity. Sensing that he has to do what audience expected from him, Ganesh.
- 5/2/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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