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Swayamvara (film)
''Swayamvara'' is a 1973 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by Y. R. Swamy and produced by C. R. Basavaraju. The film stars Rajkumar, N. Bharathi, Balakrishna and Dinesh. The film has musical score by Rajan–Nagendra. The movie is based on a novel of same name by Ma. Na. Murthy. Plot Bharati, is a young socialite who learns she will not inherit the family's wealth. She doesn't want to marry, but her father's will explicitly mentions that without marriage, she will lose the family estate. Balakrishna, her lawyer and trusted adviser sees the news in the paper about Rajkumar, who is a convict about to be hanged. Bharati marries Dr. Rajkumar, just to claim her ancestral wealth. The day before the hanging, the killer reveals on his death-bed, that Rajkumar is innocent. Rajkumar is released, just as he is to be hanged. Rajkumar thinks it was the marital bliss that changed his fortunes. Anguished that her plans are thwarted, Bharati cries and accuses Rajkumar of plotting. Being ...
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Balakrishna (Kannada Actor)
Tirumakudalu Narasipura Balakrishna (2 November 1911 – 18 July 1995), commonly known an T. N. Balakrishna or Balanna, was an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry. He was said to have a hearing problem and some say that he was totally deaf. However, he would catch the lip movements of the artists and would narrate the dialogues spontaneously. He was popular for his comic and villainous roles in films like '' kantheredu nodu'' (1961), ''Muriyada Mane'' (1964), ''Bangaarada Manushya'' (1972), ''Gandhada Gudi'' (1973) and ''Kaamana Billu'' (1983) and appeared in numerous versatile roles over a hundred films that starred Rajkumar in the lead role. Balakrishna is known to have played the most roles in Kannada cinema, having appeared in over 560 films as a hero, villain, comedian, good Samaritan, loving father and lunatic. Sudha Chandran is his ex-daughter in law. Early life Balakrishna was born into a poor family on 2 November 1911 in Arsikere, Kingdom of Mysore. When h ...
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Rajan–Nagendra
Rajan–Nagendra were an Indian musical duo who were prominent composers of film music in Kannada and Telugu cinema from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. Rajan, along with his brother Nagendra, created a niche for themselves for nearly four decades. The duo scored music for about 375 films, over 200 of them in Kannada and the remainder in other languages like Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Tulu, Hindi and Sinhala. They composed innumerable hits, hundreds of melodious tunes in their career spanning four decades. They also hold the record for the longest active musical pair in the industry. Childhood Rajan (1933–2020) and Nagendrappa (1935–2000) were born in Shivarampet of Mysore in a middle-class musical family. Their father Rajappa was a harmonium and flute player who played background music for silent movies. Within a short time, each of them attained proficiency in playing a different instrument – Rajan in violin and Nagendra in Jal tarang. Rajan used to listen to music ...
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ...
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Kannada
Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native speakers, and was additionally a second or third language for around 13 million non-native speakers in Karnataka. Kannada was the court language of some of the most powerful dynasties of south and central India, namely the Kadambas, Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Yadava Dynasty or Seunas, Western Ganga dynasty, Wodeyars of Mysore, Nayakas of Keladi Hoysalas and the Vijayanagara empire. The official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka, it also has scheduled status in India and has been included among the country's designated classical languages.Kuiper (2011), p. 74R Zydenbos in Cushman S, Cavanagh C, Ramazani J, Rouzer P, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition'', p. 767, Princeton Unive ...
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Raghavendra Rao
Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao (born 23 May 1942) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema besides having directed a few Hindi films. He has garnered four state Nandi Awards and five Filmfare Awards South. In a film career spanning more than four decades, Rao has directed more than a hundred feature films across multiple genres such as romantic comedy, fantasy, melodrama, action thriller, biographical and romance films. Rao received the state Nandi Award for Best Director for his works such as ''Bobbili Brahmanna'' (1984), and ''Pelli Sandadi'' (1996). He garnered the Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu for the drama film ''Prema Lekhalu'' (1977), the fantasy film ''Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari'' (1990), and the romance film ''Allari Priyudu'' (1993). Rao is known for his works in hagiographical films such as ''Annamayya'' (1997), which won two National Film Awards, and was also showcased at the 1998 Inte ...
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Kunigal Nagabhushan
Kunigal Nagabhushan (6 December 1945 – 23 June 2013) was an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry. Some of the notable films of Kunigal Nagabhushan as an actor include '' S.P. Sangliyana 2'' (1990), ''C.B.I. Shankar'' (1989), ''Daari Tappida Maga'' (1975). Career Kunigal Nagabhushan had contributed to more than two hundred Kannada films, as actor, dialogue writer and assistant director. Selected filmography ;Writer #''Swalpa Adjust Madkolli'' (2000) #''Gadibidi Krishna'' (1998) # ''Nagaradalli Nayakaru'' (1992) # ''Solillada Saradara'' (1992) # ''Gauri Ganesha'' (1991) # '' Golmaal Radhakrishna 2'' (1991) # ''Ganeshana Maduve'' (1990) # ''Golmaal Radhakrishna'' (1990) ;Actor *''Gokula Krishna'' (2012) *''Kiladi Krishna'' (2010) *''Ramasamy Krishnasamy'' (2003) *''Mane Magalu'' (2003) *''Ammavra Ganda'' (1997) *''Amruthavarshini'' (1997) *''Yaarigoo Helbedi''(1992) Awards See also *List of people from Karnataka *Cinema of Karnataka *List of Indian film actors *Cinema ...
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Shani Mahadevappa
Shani Mahadevappa (1933 – 3 January 2021) was an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry. His films include ''Shankar Guru'' (1978), ''Kaviratna Kalidasa (1983)'', '' Sri Srinivasa Kalyana'' (1974), '' Shivashankar'' (1990), ''Guru Brahma'' (1992). Career Mahadevappa first became a theatre actor and worked in many theatrical groups including Gubbi Veeranna's company. His role of Lord Shani in the play ''Shani Prabhava'' brought him wider recognition and he became known as ''Shani Mahadevappa''. Mahadevappa has been part of more than 500 movies in Kannada.his native is belakavadi malavalli taluk mandya dist.in his early acting career he played lots of dramas with great legend DR raj kumar all over karnataka Death Mahadevappa died from complications of COVID-19 in Bengaluru on 3 January 2021, at age 88, during the COVID-19 pandemic in India. He is survived by his son and daughter. Selected filmography # '' Aathma Bandhana'' (1992) # '' Mana Mecchida Sose'' (1992) # '' Shiv ...
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1973 Films
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1970s Kannada-language Films
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Films Scored By Rajan–Nagendra
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ...
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