''Hombisilu'' is a 1978 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

romantic drama Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...

film directed by

Geethapriya Lakshman Rao Mohite (15 June 1932 – 17 January 2016), better known by his pen-name Geethapriya ( kn, ಗೀತಪ್ರಿಯ), was an Indian film director and lyricist of the Kannada film industry. He has directed 40 films and penned over 250 ...

. It is based on the novel of the same name by Usha Navarathnaram. The film starred Vishnuvardhan, Aarathi and Leelavathi. Vishnuvardhan was awarded with

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards. The award honours Kannada Language films. Superlatives Recipients The first recipient was ...

for his performance in this film. The film was a musical blockbuster with all the songs composed by

Rajan–Nagendra Rajan–Nagendra were an Indian musical duo who were prominent composers of film music in Kannada and Telugu cinema from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. Rajan, along with his brother Nagendra, created a niche for themselves for nearly four de ...

considered evergreen hits.

Synopsis

Dr. Nataraj ( Vishnuvardhan) is desperately seeking a lady doctor for his nursing home. His aunt ( Leelavathi) introduces him to her assistant, Doctor Roopa ( Aarathi) who falls in love with him at first sight but is disappointed to know that he is only looking for a female assistant doctor. While family pressures force her to marry him, she refuses to consummate the marriage because of her grudge. Circumstances introduce another young woman Vasanthi (

Vaishali Kasaravalli Vaishali Kasaravalli (12 April 1952 – 27 September 2010) was a noted Kannada actress, television serial director, and costume designer. Early life She was born on 12 April 1952 in Gulbarga to theatre enthusiast parents Dr. Chitagopi and Ni ...

) as a second lady doctor in Nataraj's nursing home. The glamorous Vasanthi is more interested in the good looking Nataraj rather than her duty as a doctor. This deepens the rift between Nataraj and Roopa. How the differences are resolved for a happy ending forms the rest of the movie set against the backdrop of the nursing home. The film is based on the debut novel of famous Kannada author Usha Navaratnaram. Usha's novels mainly focussed on the problems of working women in the male dominated world. Usha herself being a doctor has written many novels with a female doctor as the center character, of which two - Hombisilu and Bandhana were made into films. Vishnu featured as the male lead in both. Despite the female-centric theme, Vishnuvardhan did hold his own against the indomitable heroines - Aarathi in Hombisilu and Suhasini in

Bandhana ''Bandhana'' is a 1984 Indian Kannada-language romantic drama film directed by Rajendra Singh Babu from a screenplay by H. V. Subba Rao and Rajendra Singh Babu, based on a novel of the same name by Usha Navaratnanram. The film revolves around t ...

- who were considered his equals in the craft - and impressed the intelligent Kannada audience. The two films fetched him his two state awards.

Cast

* Vishnuvardhan as Dr. Nataraj * Aarathi as Dr. Roopa *

as Dr.Vasanthi * Leelavathi as Dr.Kamalamma *

Uma Shivakumar Uma Shivakumar (c. 1941 – 25 June 2013) was an Indian film and theatre character actress, who career included role in more than 170 Kannada language films and more than 30 plays. She was nicknamed "Baddi Bangaramma" by audiences, after the p ...

as Raji *

Shivaram S. Shivaram (28 January 1938 – 4 December 2021), popularly known simply as Shivaram or Shivaramanna, was an Indian actor, producer and director whose Kannada cinema career has spanned six decades. He has played roles including lead hero p ...

as Dr. Srinath * N. S. Rao as Ranga *

Shakti Prasad J. C. Ramaswamy (19 May 1928 – 2 August 1986), known by his screen name Shakti Prasad, was an Indian actor who appeared in Kannada films in mostly villainous roles. In a career spanning close to 20 years, he appeared in over 200 films includ ...

as Rangappa

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

. All the songs composed for the film were received extremely well and considered as evergreen songs. Rajan–Nagendra reused the song ''Jeeva Veene'' in the 1979 Telugu movie ''Intinti Ramayanam'' as '' Veena Venuvaina Sarigama'' and in the 1979 Tamil movie ''Veetukku Veedu Vasapadi'' as ''Aadal Paadal Kaadhal Enbathu Appodhu''.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3CtLTPH5Ovg&feature=youtu.be

Awards

* 1977–78 -

- Vishnuvardhan

References

Kannada audio

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hombisilu 1978 films 1970s Kannada-language films 1978 romantic drama films Indian romantic drama films Films based on Indian novels Films scored by Rajan–Nagendra Films directed by Geethapriya