''Kutumba'' ( Family) is a 2003

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

action film Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist is thrust into a series of events that typically involve violence and physical feats. The genre tends to feature a mostly resourceful hero struggling against incredible odds, which include l ...

starring

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and Natanya Singh. The film was directed by

Naganna B. Naganna is an Indian film director and writer working in Kannada cinema. He is the son of acclaimed producer and distributor R. Lakshman. After working as an associate director in the K. S. L. Swamy directorial '' Jimmy Gallu'' in 1982, Naga ...

and produced by Shailendra Babu. Music for the film was scored by

Gurukiran Gurukiran or Gurukiran Shetty is an Indian music director of the Kannada film industry in India. He started his career as a music director of the Kannada movie '' A'', directed and acted by Upendra. His music for his next movie '' Upendra'' fu ...

. It is the first among a series of successful films under Upendra — Naganna combination. The film also starred Ashok,

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, Shwetha in supporting roles and

B.C. Patil Basavanagowda Channabasavanagowda Patil is an Indian Kannada film actor turned politician who is the current Minister of State for Agriculture of Karnataka from 7 February 2020. (He is a three-term MLA from Hirekerur assembly constituency. B. ...

and Sathya Raj played the negative roles. The film is a remake of the 1991

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film ''

Gang Leader ''Gang Leader'' is a 1991 Indian Telugu-language action crime film written and directed by Vijaya Bapineedu, and produced by Maganti Ravindranath Chowdary. The film stars Chiranjeevi and Vijayashanti, while Rao Gopal Rao, Anandaraj, Murali Mo ...

'' starring

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. The success of the film led to the release of two other successful films under Upendra — Naganna combination, namely ''

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'' in 2003 and '' Gowramma'' in 2005.

Cast

as Vijay *Natanya Singh as Kanyakumari * Ashok as Vivek *

as Vidhyadhar * M. N. Lakshmi Devi *

B. C. Patil Basavanagowda Channabasavanagowda Patil is an Indian Kannada film actor turned politician who is the current Minister of State for Agriculture of Karnataka from 7 February 2020. (He is a three-term MLA from Hirekerur assembly constituency. B. ...

as Shankar Patil *Arjun (Firoz Khan) as Jayaraj Patil *Nithin Gopi as Sagar *Dr. Nagesh kavati * Bank Suresh * Shwetha as Menaka *Sathyaraj as DCP Shekhar *Dalapathi dinesh *Doddanna as Jailer *Mysore Ramanand *

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as House Broker *Pailwaan Venu *Pushpa Swamy as Chief Minister *Hanumanthe Gowda *Vijaya Sarathi as Home Minister *Myna Chandru as Astrologer *Stunt Siddu *Ravi varma *Narasimha moorthi *Jayalakshmi Patil as Lakshmi, Vivek's Wife *Sridhar Raj as Sub-inspector A. B. Gowda

Box office

''Kutumba'' ran for 50 days in more than 17 centres across

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and recorded 100 days in many centres across the state like

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. It also completed 125 days of run at its main center in

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album was released in

in April 2003 by Police Commissioner of the city, K. V. Gagandeep, and Mayor, Prakash Kyarakatti. The music was composed by

References

2003 films Kannada remakes of Telugu films 2000s Kannada-language films Films set in Bangalore Films scored by Gurukiran Films shot in Bangalore Indian gangster films Indian crime action films 2000s crime action films Films directed by Naganna {{2000s-Kannada-film-stub