''Gandana Mane'' is a 2007
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 ...
movie directed by
S. Mahendar
S. Mahendar is an Indian film director working in Kannada cinema. He is also a politician with the BJP contesting from Kollegal constituency in Karnataka. He debuted into cinema with ''Pranayada Pakshigalu'' (1992) and went to direct for over ...
and starring
Shiva Rajkumar
Nagaraju Shiva Puttaswamy (born 12 July 1962) known by his screen name Shiva Rajkumar, is an Indian actor, producer and television presenter, predominantly works in Kannada cinema. and
Gowri Munjal
Gowri Munjal (born 9 August 1985) is an Indian actress and model. She has frequently appeared in South Indian films and is probably best known for her performance as Mahalakshmi Somaraju in her debut film ''Bunny''.
Career
When she moved to M ...
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Cast
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Shiva Rajkumar
Nagaraju Shiva Puttaswamy (born 12 July 1962) known by his screen name Shiva Rajkumar, is an Indian actor, producer and television presenter, predominantly works in Kannada cinema. as Raja
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Gowri Munjal
Gowri Munjal (born 9 August 1985) is an Indian actress and model. She has frequently appeared in South Indian films and is probably best known for her performance as Mahalakshmi Somaraju in her debut film ''Bunny''.
Career
When she moved to M ...
as Priya
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Hema Chaudhary
Durga Prabha, known by her stage name, Hema Chaudhary (born 1955) is an Indian actress who has predominantly acted in Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil films. Starting her career as a lead actress in the Telugu film ''Pelli Kani Pelli'' in ...
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Avinash as Sitaram
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Doddanna
*Ashalatha as Raja's step-mother
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Ramesh Bhat
Ramesh Bhat is a multiple-award–winning Indian actor. He has worked predominantly in Kannada films and television serials.
Early life
Ramesh Bhat was born in Kundapur. He completed his primary education at Manki and portrayed national leader ...
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Karibasavaiah
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Tennis Krishna
Tennis Krishna is a popular Kannada actor and comedian. Tennis Krishna has acted in over 600 movies and has a record of acting in 100 movies with comedy actress Rekha Das.
Life
His background is from Kannada theatre.
He acted with Kannada act ...
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Vaijanath Biradar
Vaijanath Basappa Biradar is an Indian comedian and actor who works in Kannada cinema. He has acted nearly 500 movies in Kannada.
He was awarded the top one best actor in the 2011 India Imagine film festival that took place in Madrid, Spain f ...
Soundtrack
The music was composed by
V. Manohar and released by Anand Audio Video.
Reception
A critic from ''
The Times of India
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'' wrote that "It is a treat to watch Shivaraj Kumar's brilliant acting. Gauri is excellent and Avinash is in fine form. B A Madhu's dialogues and camerawork by Sundarnath Suvarna are added attractions. V Manohar's music is pleasant". A critic from ''
Rediff.com
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'' opined that "All in all, an ordinary fare".
References
Films scored by V. Manohar
2000s Kannada-language films
Films directed by S. Mahendar
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