''Manasu Mallige'' () is an 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

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film directed by

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and produced by

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and Akash Chawla. The film, a remake of

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film ''

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'' (2016), features

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, reprising her role from the original, and Nishanth (Nataraj). The original soundtrack by

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has been re-used with Kannada lyrics, the cinematography is by Manohar Joshi.

Overview

The film depicts love-story between a girl of an upper caste and a boy from a lower caste; thus it comments on the

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in India. This commentary culminates into

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; honour killing prevalent in few parts of rural India as well as urban India. The music of ''Manasu Mallige'' was released on 14 February 2017. It was written by Ajay–Atul, who kept the original score and just added Kannada lyrics in place of the original Marathi ones. All songs have been sung by the same singers who rendered the original songs, except an additional song which has been rendered by Sonu Nigam.

Cast

* Nishanth * Tanaji Galgunde * Sourabh Kulakarni

Soundtrack

The songs and background score for the film are composed by composer duo

, who had scored for the original Marathi film. This marks their debut in the

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. One additional song was composed by

. The music was officially released on the

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on 14 February 2017. Minister of Water Resources, M. B. Patil officially released the audio at

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in Bengaluru.

References

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