''Aishwarya'' is a 2006 Indian

Kannada-language 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 sp ...

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directed by

Indrajit Lankesh Indrajit Lankesh is an Indian filmmaker, producer, and director of Kannada and Hindi films. He is also the publisher of the weekly Kannada tabloid ''Lankesh Patrike''. He is the son of iconic writer, journalist and film maker P. Lankesh. Lankes ...

, starring

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with

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in her film debut. The film is an official

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of '' Manmadhudu'' (2002) with the flashback portion loosely inspired by '' Ghajini'' (2005). The film featured Upendra as a rich advertisement executive and changed his mass image into a classy one.

Plot

Abhishek Hegde (

) had first fallen in love with a young lady Anjali (

) who was a model. As a struggling model, Anjali finds herself in a fortunate position where she is mistaken to be girlfriend to Abhishek and gets many new offers. Abhishek tries to confront her on seeing the news about his affair with her, but falls in love with her instead. Anjali dies in an accident when the two declare their love and are hugging, Abhishek's car hits a lorry. As Anjali's family were not in favour of her decision of marrying Abhishek, he is informed that Anjali has married the person she has been engaged to and did not care to tell him that Anjali has actually died and visit him, even when he was in hospital recovering from injuries after the accident. Abhishek's grandfather had faked an invitation card to Anjali's wedding only to keep him away from further mental trauma. This angers Abhishek and he starts to hate women with the generalisation that all women are like Anjali. After a long gap Aishwarya (

) joins the company he works in which is owned by his uncle as an assistant manager. After a stay for a few days in the office, she gets Abhishek fired and she takes the position of manager. Abhishek now not knowing what to do talks to his aunt, but is interrupted by his uncle, who is mean to him. Finally, he takes the job of assistant manager as that is the only job available. Within a few days they assigned a task at Vienna. The two travel to Europe on business for ten days and learn from each other. Aishwarya transforms Abhishek by her assertive and fun-loving nature. They fall in love with each other but don't express it. Abhishek finds out that Aishwarya is getting engaged as decided by her family to a very strict family from Mandya. Aishwarya is aware of Abhishek's feelings for her. Both of them finally speak out their love. Now, Abhishek, to save his love, drives to reach Aishwarya. At that moment, Aishwarya will be on a boat travelling to the place where she has to get marry. Abhishek reaches there and shouts out for Aishwarya, and she responds by jumping into the river. They both reunite and share their moment of joy by telling how much they love each other. The movie ends on a happy note and they are married by the end.

Cast

as Abhishek Hegde *

as Aishwarya Pai *

as Anjali *

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as Bunk Seena *

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as Chintu * Ramakrishna Neernalli *

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* Sharan *

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*Karthik Sharma

Box office

''Aishwarya'' opened both in single screens and multiplexes as well. The film broke several opening box office records by generating a net share of 1.5 crore and a total gross of 20 million during its first week, out of which more than 10 million came from BKT (

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) alone, once again proving

's strong foothold in the BKT region after his earlier record breaking opener '' Omkara'' which had also collected 10 million net from the BKT region in its first week. ''Aishwarya'' went on to complete 50 days of run at 30 centres across

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and 75 days of run in

, and was a commercial success, although it could not reach expectations. ''Aishwarya'' grossed a total of 50 million in its entire run of 100 days and was among the top 5 hit films of 2006.Hit Kannada Films of the year 2006
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Soundtrack

The soundtrack was scored by

Rajesh Ramanath Rajesh Ramanath is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer. He has scored music for Kannada films. He has also acted in a Kannada feature film ''Black & White'' (2003) as a lead actor. Rajesh Ramanath debuted as a music composer in 1995 f ...

Reception

RG Vijayasarathy of ''

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'' gave the film a rating of three out of five stars and opined that "Krishnakumar's lighting, choice of locations, sharp editing and the peppy music make ''Aishwarya'' a very pleasing watch".

References

External links

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ChitralokaReview on NowRunning.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aishwarya(film) 2006 films 2000s Kannada-language films Films set in Bangalore Kannada remakes of Telugu films Films directed by Indrajit Lankesh Films scored by Rajesh Ramnath Indian romantic comedy films Films scored by V. Ravichandran