''Anthu Inthu Preethi Banthu'' (''Love Came Like That'') is a 2008 Indian

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 s ...

-language film starring debutante Aditya Babu and

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. The film is a remake of the 2006 Telugu film ''

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''. Babu also produced the film. The film's title is based on the opening line of a song from '' Milana'' (2007).

Cast

* Aditya Babu as Shivu "Shiv Prakash" *

as Preethi "Bhramarambike" *

Harish Raj Harish Raj is an Indian actor and director based in Kannada cinema. He made his acting debut in the television serial ''Hosa Chiguru Hale Beru'' in 1996 and his debut in feature films was with ''Doni Saagali'' in 1998. After featuring in a stri ...

as Hari, Shivu's friend *

Srinivasa Murthy Jadalathimmanahalli Krishnappa Srinivasa Murthy (born 15 May 1949), known popularly as Srinivasa Murthy, is an Indian actor and television director. He is mostly known for his work as a director having made many television series in Kannada, be ...

as Sathya prakash, Shivu's father *

Lokanath C. H. Loknath (14 August 1927 – 31 December 2018) was an Indian actor with more than 1000 Kannada plays and 650 films to his credit. Loknath is affectionately known as "Uncle Loknath" or "Uppinakayi" in the industry. His last performance wa ...

Rangayana Raghu Kotturu Chikkarangappa Raghunath (born 17 April 1965), known by his screen name Rangayana Raghu, is an Indian film and stage actor, known for his work in Kannada cinema. Portraying mostly comic and negative-shaded characters, he has appeared ...

as Veerabhadra *

Chitra Shenoy Chitra Shenoy is an Indian actress and producer in South Indian movies and television series. She has acted in more than 600 films in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Tulu, and Hindi. She is known as the 'young mother' in the Kannada film ind ...

Kuri Prathap Prathap (also known as ''Kuri Prathap'') is an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry. He made his debut in the movie Sixer (2007), and went on to cast in many commercial films. Some films Prathap worked as an actor include '' Mylari'' (20 ...

as Sunil * Malathi Sardeshpande * Shashikala * Kishori Ballal * Ramesh Pandith as Neelakantha *

Mandya Ramesh Mandya Ramesh is an Indian actor, comedian, director and theatre personality who mainly works in the Kannada films and theatre. He is the founder secretary oNatanaRangashaale, Mysore, one of the eminent theatre training institutions of India. ...

as Thimma * Rajashekhar Naidu * Madhu Hegde * Satya *

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* Vithika Sheru *

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Production

The film was shot in Hyderabad.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack features 7 songs overall, out of which 4 songs were retained from the Original Telugu soundtrack, composed by noted Tamil music director

Yuvan Shankar Raja Yuvan Shankar Raja or Abdul Haliq (born 31 August 1979) is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer and singer-songwriter. He mainly scores music for Tamil films. Considered a versatile composer, he is particularly known for his use of Wes ...

, while the remaining 3 were composed by

Gurukiran Gurukiran or Gurukiran Shetty is an Indian music director of the Kannada film industry in India. He started his career as a music director of the Kannada movie '' A'', directed and acted by Upendra. His music for his next movie ''Upendra'' furt ...

. Lyrics were written by Kaviraj and Hrudaya Shiva. The soundtrack was released on 22 May 2008.

Reception

Film critic R. G. Vijayasarathy wrote that "A neat film that can be recommended for family audience".

References

{{reflist 2000s Kannada-language films 2008 films Kannada remakes of Telugu films Films scored by Gurukiran