''Hari Bhakta'' is a 1956

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 directed by T. V. Singh Thakur. The film stars Rajkumar and

Pandari Bai Pandari Bai (1930 – 29 January 2003) was an Indian actress who worked in South Indian cinema, mostly in Kannada cinema during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She is considered Kannada cinema's first successful heroine. She has acted as both heroi ...

. It had Mynavathi, Narasimharaju,

G. V. Iyer Ganapathi Venkataramana Iyer (3 September 1917 – 21 December 2003) was a well-known Indian film director and actor. He was nicknamed "Kannada Bheeshma", and was the only person who made films in Sanskrit. His film ''Adi Shankaracharya'' (1983 ...

H. R. Shastry Halebeedu Ramachandra Shastry (2 November 1905 – 12 December 1976), was an Indian actor and dubbing artist known for his work in Kannada cinema. In his career spanning more than 40 years, Shastry played a variety of supporting roles. He is not ...

playing supporting roles. The movie is based on the life of

Pundarika Pundalik ( mr, पुंडलिक) or Pundarik is a central figure in the legends of the Hindu God Vithoba, generally considered a Vaishnava deity identified with the deities Vishnu and Krishna. He is credited to have brought Vithoba to Pandh ...

which had earlier been adapted in Tamil in 1944 as '' Haridas'' and later in Telugu in 1957 as ''

Panduranga Mahatyam ''Panduranga Mahatyam'' () is a 1957 Indian Telugu-language biographical film, based on the life of Pundarika, produced by N. Trivikrama Rao under the National Art Theatres banner and directed by Kamalakara Kameswara Rao. It stars N. T. Rama Ra ...

''.

Cast

* Rajkumar as Hari / Pundarika *

as Lakshmi, Hari's wife *

Mynavathi Mynavathi (26 July 1935 – 10 November 2012) was an Indian actress. She made her first screen appearance as an actor in the 1955 Kannada film ''Santa Sakhu'' and acted in over 100 Kannada films. She was the younger sister of another popular Ka ...

* Narasimharaju as Shankar, Hari's friend *

as Hari's father *

Shanthamma Shanthamma was an Indian actress in the Kannada film industry, as well as in Hindi and Tamil, and a Theatre of India, theatre artist in Karnataka, India. She was known for playing Supporting actor, supporting and Character actor, character roles ...

as Hari's mother

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed by

G. K. Venkatesh Gurusala Krishnadas Venkatesh (21 September 1927 – 17 November 1993) was an Indian film score composer who primarily worked in Kannada cinema during the 1960s, 1970s and until the late-1980s. He also composed music for Telugu, Malayalam and Ta ...

and lyrics written by

K. R. Seetharama Sastry K. R. Seetharama Sastry ( kn, ಕು. ರಾ. ಸೀತಾರಾಮ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರಿ) popularly known as Ku. Ra. Seetharama Sastry or simply Ku. Ra. Si was an Indian actor, writer, lyricist and director in Kannada cinema, Kannada film i ...

References

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