''Malla'' is a 2004 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 film written, directed, composed and enacted by

Ravichandran Ravichandran is an Indian name. Notable people with the name include: * Ravichandran (Tamil actor) (1942–2011) * Ravichandran (Tamil film director) (born 1971) * N. Ravichandran (professor) (1955), professor at IIM Ahmedabad * N. Ravichandran, ...

in dual roles. The film also stars

Priyanka Trivedi Priyanka Upendra (née Trivedi) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Kannada Language films. Early life Priyanka was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Her mother is from West Bengal and father from Uttar Pradesh. She spent ten yea ...

and

Mohan Shankar Mohan Shankar, popularly known as Mohan, is a Kannada film actor, who started his acting career in 2000 with the movie '' Yaarige Saluthe Sambala''. He reached the peak of popularity with movies like '' Kurigalu Saar Kurigalu'', ''Kothigalu Saa ...

. The film was produced by

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for his home banner Ramu Enterprises making his the first team up with Ravichandran. The film found a widespread release across Karnataka state on 27 February 2004 and was declared a blockbuster at the box office. However, it received mixed response by the critics who claimed that the film highlights the unwanted intimacy scenes, as well as the great relationship between husband and wife, other than the romantic part of Shiva Rama Krishna, the associate of TFI Puri Jaganadh, has shown the great relationship between husband and wife that attracted woman audience to watch this movie again and again. The film is also reportedly the first to introduce the famous

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based traditional art

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in Kannada cinema. The stunt master K. D. Venkatesh was awarded in a special category at the

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Plot

The film is all about Malla - a florist, a Samaritan, soft-natured person beloved by people; contrast to this is his son Shiva who grows-up in goons' abode; a father who sacrifices his life for his son and at the end son taking revenge on the culprits. Malla reminds us of his earlier films ''Anjada Gandu'' and ''Puntanja'' in some sequences. This film has everything from love to trust, affection, sorrow, action, cruelty, comedy and glamour to make ''Malla'' a tasty feast for all classes. Known for unusual ideas and sets, he demonstrated them here too - he sleeps on a hand shaped bed and makes out with the beauty.

Cast

as Mallikarjuna (Malla) / Shiva *

Priyanka Upendra Priyanka Upendra (née Trivedi) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Kannada Language films. Early life Priyanka was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Her mother is from West Bengal and father from Uttar Pradesh. She spent ten yea ...

as Priya *

as Hanuma *

Umashree Umashree (born 10 May 1957) is an Indian actress and politician. She is known for her portrayal of film roles spoken in the Kannada language (over 400), particularly comic roles. She received National Film Award for Best Actress for her role a ...

Pavitra Lokesh Pavitra Lokesh is an Indian film and television actress. She appears primarily in Kannada and Telugu films playing supporting roles. The daughter of stage and film actor Mysore Lokesh, she made her film debut at the age of 16 and has since ap ...

* K.S.L Swamy *K. D. Venkatesh *Fayaz Khan *Ultimate Shivu * Vijay Kashi * Shankar Ashwath * Lakshman Rao *Venkatesh Prasad

Production

V. Ravichandran Veeraswamy Ravichandran (born 30 May 1961), known mononymously as Ravichandran, is an actor, director, producer, music director, lyricist and editor in the Kannada Film Industry. He is the son of film producer N. Veeraswamy. As producer, Ravi ...

began working on ''Malla'' in March 2003, alongside '' Pandu Ranga Vittala'', another film he was acting in. ''Malla'' was produced by

, under his production house, while Ravichandran directed it. He stated: "The audience can expect to see the earlier Ravichandran in ''Malla''. The film will have all gimmicks and heroisms of a Ravichandran-starrer and I want the cine-goers to take something back home after seeing the film. The film will touch the hearts of all the cine-goers. It will entertain, make people laugh and cry." He added that he would star as the eponymous lead Mallikarjuna "Malla", who has a love for flowers. He further said the film would have six tracks, and that

would star opposite him, as a girl "who comes from abroad and becomes a village girl." Ravichandran wrote the film's story and lyrics for three tracks, and co-wrote the screenplay with J. K. Bharavi, while actor

wrote the dialogues.

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed and lyrics written by

References

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