KANNADA Movies

hi,
bumped in to this site while searching for something on the net. Seems lot of unnecessary mud slinging going on here. :-)

Putaraj,
who is this Ilayaraaja u r talking abt? Is it the same guy who started his movie career as assistant to G K Venkatesh, guy who was music director for so many kannada movies?

http://www.raajangahm.com/irbio.html

Kamal, definitely great actor. I saw one of his movies called "Maria My Darling". Guys, i am sorry if that sounds like one of those porno Mallu movies. Its not a porno movie, but is worse than that. The movie sucked great time. Unfortunately Kannda had no super talented actor to act in such dumbo movie like that & thats why probably Kamal acted in that movie.

Sivaji? he is definitely a thespian. For all his talent, all he could get in Kannada movies was, a measly 2 minute role in that national award winning (not because of Sivaji though) kannada movie "School Master". With 2-3 dialogues that he had to deliver in that movie, Sivaji successfully murdered our "Kasturi Kannada" by rendering them very badly. Hindi speaking actor Prithviraj Kapoor rendered his Kannada dialogues in movie "Sakshatkara" with more precision than Sivaji did it in "School Master". For a hindi speaking person getting hold of a south indian language is very difficult. But Sivaji being a south indian himself, shouldnt have had had any difficulty in rendering 2-3 dialogues of just another south indian language. What a shame, he couldnt do even that. This being the case I wouldnt definitely argue about his acting capabilities. I am already convinced of his acting capabilities. I guess Sivaji can do with some lessons from Prithviraj Kapoor. Pantulu had crafted such a master piece in "School Master", that my heart goes for him when I see many scenes from that movie are straightaway lifted by a recent hindi movie like "Baghban".

Tamil movies are only remade in kannada. They are not dubbed like they do in Tamil. Tamil ppl just pick kannada movies and dub it in to tamil. Just to name one, remember movie called "Relax" starring Madhavan and abbas? wasnt it a dubbed movie?? and everybody thought dubbed movies was a stone age phenomena. Is tamil industry in its formative years that they still make dubbed movies???

Uppi and ambarish surely dont have looks to be heroes when compared to the most handsome of all Greek Gods on this entire earth like Vijaykanth, Prabhu (please excuse those barrel like tummies though), Rajani, Vijay, Prabhu Deva etc etc.

Kannada movies are definitely the worst of the lot. Reason? U said it: because they are all copied from Tamil !!

I have listed out above points just to prove that however good an artist/film industry is, he/it will have his/its downside also. No artist/film industry is perfect. It applies to both Tamil and Kannada industries and other industries also. I do have great respect for Sivaji and Kamal and others. But, yes they are not perfect, nobody is. They had their share of goof ups too!!

all said and done, we have to agree that in todays date, there are more number of tamil movies being made in kannada, however good or bad they are. But that definitely doesnt mean that there are no good original kannada movies coming out. There definitely are directors in kannada who have been consistently making some good original movies. Rajendrasing Babu is one of the most prolific directors. He has made every kind of movie a director can make. Be it romance(Bandhana, Mutthina Haara), adventure(Nagara Hole), action-thriller(antha), comedy(kurigalu saar kurigalu and two other on the same line) etc. Desai is one director whom u should never miss. He gave us this out of the world movie called "Beladingala Baale" with other memorable ones like Tarka, Nishkarsha, Nammoora Mandara Hoove etc. This movie was originally a novel by Yandamuri, one of the best of telugu writers. Yandamuri is also a movie director by himself and has directed movies like "Stuartpuram Police Station" starring bigwigs like Chiranjivi and Vijayashanti. Yandamuri himself had said that "Beladingala Baale" can not be made as movie and had dropped the idea. But Desai had the guts to pick up the story and make a movie out of it, that too a hit at that. Other directors worth watching are Nagatihalli, Kasaravalli, Uppi, Manohar, Mahendar, Om Prakash etc. One name I found missing in the discussion thread was that of T S Nagabharana. C'mon guys!!! how can u forget the guy who gave us movies like Akasmika, Chinnari Muttha, Janumada Jodi, Mysore Mallige, Nagamandala etc. Here is a guy who gave us undoubtedly the biggest hit song of kannada film industry "Huttidare Kannada Nadalli". His movies are technically very good, artistically made commercial movies. I hope in days to come, Kannada industry will see more and more good movies and directors because it is said "When all else is lost, there still is hope".

Sherin and Sakshi usually act in Telugu movies rather than Kannada movies.Sakshi especially acts/acted maninly in telugu movies.She dominated there quite a lot of time.The reason is , kannadigas are beggars.They cant pay decent money to actors.So they leave for the rich telugu industry.

harish...pls dont use my enquieries to mud sling

OK.I wasjust telling facts thats all.Nothing to do with your posts.

thanks.....rather than pix i was enquiring. i would prefer film titles more, espwcially the name of Sherin's kannada film(s).
can i also just ask a few more questions, please
do they show Hindi, Tamil, telugu and english films regularly in karnataka?bangalore? i ask bcs i assume tamil and hindi films are banned. I read telugu films are more popular than other language films in karnataka and vice versa...is this true? i see ads in tamil paper that shows Hollywood films released in Madras with tamil dubbing. does this happen in karnataka with kannada dubbing?
i ask out of curiosity. (pls dont start any arguements using my enquiries)

Raju,
I am not sure about Sakshi's movies or Sherin's movies list. I suggest u do a GOOGLE, u would definitely get some sites.

As for ur questions, here u go.

They show movies of all languages in Karnataka. Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and English movies are regularly screened in Karnataka.Visit www.onlinebangalore.com to get details of different movies screened in B'lore city. I am not sure as to what made u think that Tamil and Hindi movies are banned in Karnataka. To keep u informed, let me tell u that they are not banned. Just that there are some halls that show only English movies or only Tamil movies and so on. However, all over Karnataka it is Kannada movies that rule the roost. Couple of districts in South Karnataka do show Tamil and Telugu movies as much as kannada movies. The kind of movies shown in an area mostly depend on the local population's language. That being the case, its Kannada which is main language in most part of Karnataka, so Kannada movies get screened every where in Karnataka in more number than other languages.

When it comes to Telugu movies, yes they are definitely gaining popularity. It all started with telugu movie "Gharana Mogudu", a remake of Rajkumar's kannada movie "anuraaga aralitu". Though the movie had butchered the concept and story of the original movie, it had some wonderful songs, dances and action scenes of Chiranjeevi. The movie had high production values, and was hugely successful in Karnataka. With this started stream of Telugu movies in to Karnataka. Lot of movies started being screened all over Karnataka even in those places where there were hardly any Telugu speaking people. The movies were being watched by people Mainly because of their music, dances, action scenes and high production values, rather than stories. However in recent times few Telugu movies like "Nuvve Kaavaali", "Jayam" etc made it big mainly due to good stories, songs and presentation.

Tamil movies had similar trend with the release of "Roja", but the trend died after couple of movies. Now their screening is mostly restricted to places in Karnataka that are adjacent to Tamil Nadu and Bangalore. But telugu movies are still going strong all over Karnataka.

In todays date, Telugu movies are far ahead of Tamil or Malayalam movies in Karnataka when it comes to being screened. However they definitely are behind Hindi movies. In mid and north Karnataka, Tamil movies are hardly screened. In my native in north Karnataka, I remember only one tamil movie (Roja) being screened in last 14 years, where as u can get to see a telugu movie at most time of the year. :-)
as for dubbed movies, Hollywood movies are not dubbed in to Kannada. For that matter hardly any dubbed movies are shown in Karnataka. Probably Kannadigas dont mind watching any other language movies in their originality unlike their counterparts elsewhere in South India. he he...... Just kidding guys. Please dont take it seriously. :-) Telugu and Tamil industries are considerably bigger and also there is wide viewership for them. Probably its for that wide viewership, that they go ahead and dub Hollywood movies into Tamil or Telugu.

i am not here to compare and contrast tamil and kannada movies.

Kannada Kanda,
Illayaraja may have worked for Kannada music director as assistant, so what do U want to infer. Sishya overtaking Guru.

All said and done, Illayaraja is unbeatable, I am not supporting him because he is a tamilian.

Guys, pls don't use filthy language.

Harish....not what u thinking. i think sherin wasbrill in thulluvatho ilamai and justcant believe she has no films and am glad to be a fan.

kannadada...thanks for the info. i got a bus to mangalore from Goa and when i got to the border i remember i had left my passport under the bed in Goa. me and my friend booked into a hotel and i went on the bus all the way back, got my passport and then all the way back to M'lore!!! my friend just spent the time at a beach and she said it was a fine beach and the town was good. we saw a film (we had a policy of seeing a film every other night while backpacking through south india) and we saw a kannada film. all i know is that raajkumar and geetha was in it. he was a singer etc.. he hotel couldnt tell us the name of the film so i dont know.

another Q... are telugu and kannada similar. the writing looks similar.

Yes.A good many words are in use in both languages.One who knows kannada can easily learn telugu and vice versa.We also have good relationship with each other.The scripts are also similar.In fact they are almost identical.

Dear Raju,I was only teasing you man.Don't take it seriously !!!