''Banaras'' is a 2022 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

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film written and directed by

Jayatheertha Jayathirtha B. V. (born May 8th, 1977) is an Indian theater activist, social worker, production designer and filmmaker. He is known for his movies Olave Mandara, Tony (2013 film), Tony, Beautiful Manasugalu, and Bell Bottom (2019 film), Bell Bot ...

and produced by Tilakraj Ballal. It stars Zaid Khan and

Sonal Monteiro Sonal Monteiro is an Indian actress. She appeared in many Coastalwood and Sandalwood movies. Early life Sonal joined St. Agnes College, Mangalore. During her studies, she joined the modelling industry and won Miss Beautiful Smile 2013, Miss ...

in the lead roles. The film's music composer is

B. Ajaneesh Loknath B. Ajaneesh Loknath (born 20 November 1985) is an Indian composer who works predominantly for Kannada cinema. He received the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Music Director for his work in the film Ulidavaru Kandanthe in 2015. He is known f ...

and cinematographer is Advaitha Gurumurthy. The film was set to be released early 2021 but was postponed due to

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, It was released on November 4, 2022.

Plot

Banaras is a poignant love story set in the back drop of Kashi. This film also the debut of Zaid Khan. The most of the film's scenes have been shot in Banaras except a few portions canned in Bengaluru.

Cast

* Zaid Khan as Sidharth Simha *

as Dhani * Sujay Shastry as Shambu * Devaraj as Ajay Simha *

Achyuth Kumar Achyuth Kumar is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Kannada cinema. Born in the town of Belur, in the district of Hassan and brought up in Tiptur. He graduated in bachelor of commerce from the Kalpatharu First Grade College, which was t ...

as Narayan Shastry * Barkath Ali as Peter Jakson * Sapna Raj as Shiva

Production

TBA

Release

''Banaras'' was released in cinemas on 4 November 2022 in Kannada along with a

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dubbed version.

Music

The film's music is composed by

. The music rights are owned by

Lahari Music Lahari Recording Company is an Indian music company based in Bangalore. It owns a music label called "Lahari Music" also a film production company called "Lahari Films LLP". They later ventured into construction under the name of HomEquity Indi ...

and T-Series for Hindi and South languages.

Reception

TBA

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 15768294 Indian romance films Film productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic Films shot in Varanasi Films directed by Jayatheertha