''Gauri Ganesha'' is a 1991

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-language comedy drama film directed by

Phani Ramachandra H. S. Phani Ramachandra is a Kannada film and television director. He is known for directing such classic Kannada comedy films as '' Ganeshana Maduve'' and '' Gauri Ganesha'' and the TV serial ''Danda Pindagalu''. His films mainly portray middle ...

. It stars Anant Nag,

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Master Anand H. Anand (born 4 January 1984), popularly known as Master Anand, is an Indian actor, film director and television presenter. He is best known for his work in Kannada cinema. Anand made his acting debut as a child artist. His performance as Gane ...

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, Vaishali Kasaravalli, Ramesh Bhat among others. Anant Nag received Best Actor Filmfare Award (Kannada) for this movie. The story is based on

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's Telugu comedy novel ''Wedding Bells''. The movie was remade in Telugu in 1992 as ''Golmaal Govindam'' and in Tamil in 1998 as '' Kumbakonam Gopalu''.

Cast

* Anant Nag as Lambodhara *

as Nurse Saraswathi * Shruti as Gowri *

as Poornanda Rao * Ramesh Bhat as Madhusudan alias Madhu *

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as Anand Rao * Vaishali Kasaravalli as Vishalakshi *

as Ganesha/ A. Ganesh/M.Ganesh/Chandramouli Jr. * Ratnakar as neighbour * Bengaluru Nagesh as Photo Studio owner *

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as landlord * Shivaprakash as Chandramouli * M. S. Umesh * B.K. Shankar * Shobha Raghavendra

Plot

Lambodhara is a petty trickster who cheats and lies to make a false living. One day, he turns himself into an hospital, faking an abdominal issue, solely to get free lodging and food, and also his love interest Saraswathi or Sarasu (

). At the hospital Lambodhara comes across a recent patient named Gauri who has died of heart failure. Lambodhara gets a sudden idea and he decides to take her belongings and make some money of them, but instead finds her diary. He realizes that Gauri has come across 3 men who had significant influence in her life. The first man was her former boss who had proposed indecently to sleep with her. The second man wanted her to pretend that they are married to fool his parents in return for money for her heart treatment. The last man is a friend of the 2nd man, and thought that he had slept with her in a drunken state. The truth is that none of the men had any physical contact with her. Lambodhar devises a plan to extract money from these men and their families. He writes letters to the m stating that Gauri has given birth to their son and named him Ganesh. After a series of funny events, (such as the three booking almost neighbouring rooms on the same floor of the same hotel) all the three come to meet Lambodhar on the same day, and the film ends when Lambodhar blackmails them into submission.

Awards

;

Karnataka State Film Awards Karnataka State Film Awards are the most notable and prestigious film awards given for Kannada film industry in Karnataka, India. These are considered the highest awards for Kannada language films. They are given annually by the Government ...

* Best Male Playback Singer —

Puttur Narasimha Nayak Puttur Narasimha Nayak is a Kannada and Konkani singer and vocalist from Karnataka. He sings devotional songs, chiefly Haridasa compositions, and Carnatic classical music. To his credit, he has rendered in Kannada, mainly devotional s ...

for "Nimma Maguvu Naguthiruva" * Best Child Actor (Male) —

* Best Dialogue —

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 Tappi ...

;

Filmfare Awards South Filmfare Awards South is the South Indian segment of the annual Filmfare Awards, presented by the Filmfare magazine of The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Indian film industry encompassin ...

* Best Film – Kannada * Best Actor – Kannada — Anant Nag

References

External links

* 1991 films 1990s Kannada-language films Indian comedy-drama films Films scored by Rajan–Nagendra Kannada films remade in other languages Films directed by Phani Ramachandra 1991 comedy-drama films {{1990s-Kannada-film-stub