Kannada film music

[Sudarshan C R]

Here is a love song from the film ‘mahakavi kalidasa’, a b/w film released during 1955.
This song was very popular during 60s and had taken prominent place in few love scenes of all dramas during those days. The film was produced by Shri C Honnappa Bhagavatar. Besides composing music to the film,
Bhagavatar himself acted as Kalidasa in the film. B Saroja Devi (Debut film) as Vidyadhare.
This film was remade in Telugu ( A Nageswara Rao) in 1960 and in Tamil (Shivaji Ganeshan) in 1966.

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Lyric follows:

chitra: mahAkavi kALidAsa 1955
gAyana: si honnappa bhAgavatar
saMgIta: si honnappa bhAgavatar
sAhitya: beLLAve naraharishAstri

shRuMgAravAhini manamOhini priya
kAMtAmaNi kAmini madhura
prEmAnurAgiNi prANEshvari parama
praNaya bIribIri manakAnaMdava taruva /shRuMgAra/

chiMteya pariharisi chira
shAMti dhAreya hariside
hRudayada shOkava nI harisi
amaralOkavane rachiside
dhanissa rigarri
svarake nInalidu bA
tajjaNu takiTa
layabharita gati gamane /shRuMgAra/

Meaning of the song:

Enthralling (manamOhini) stream (vAhini) of beauty (shRuMgAra)
lovely (priya) beloved (kAMtAmaNi) woman (kAmini) sweet (madhura)
amourus lover (prEmAnurAgiNi) darling lady (prANEshvari) superb (parama)
bringing (taruva) pleasure (AnaMdava) to mind (manake)
by hurling (bIribIri) passion (praNaya)

Redressed (pariharisi) all worries (chiMteya)
made to flow (dhAreya harisi) serenity (shAMti) for ever (chira)
build (rachiside) an immortal world (amaralOkavane)
by removing (harisi) sorrows (shOkava) from my heart (hRudayada)
danisa rigari
You (nI) please come (bA) elated (nalidu) for the notes (svarake)
tajjaNu takiTa
lady stepping (gati gamane) to rhythm (layabharita)

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View the song here:
B Saroja Devi and C Honnappa Bhagavatar on the screen:

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