''Vasantasena'' is a 1941 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 directed by Ramayyar Shirur. It stars Lakshmi Bai, Subbayya Naidu and Nagendra Rao in lead roles. The film is based on the

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...

play,

Mṛcchakatika ''Mṛcchakatika'' ( sa, Mṛcchakaṭikam मृच्छकटिकम्), also spelled ''Mṛcchakaṭikā'', ''Mrchchhakatika'', ''Mricchakatika'', or ''Mrichchhakatika'' (''The Little Clay Cart'') is a ten-act Sanskrit drama attributed ...

Śūdraka Shudraka ( IAST: ) was an Indian playwright, to whom three Sanskrit plays are attributed: '' Mrichchhakatika'' (''The Little Clay Cart''), ''Vinavasavadatta'', and a ''bhana'' (short one-act monologue), ''Padmaprabhritaka''.Bhattacharji, Sukumari ...

Cast

* Lakshmi Bai as

Vasantasena Vasantasena (Fifth century BC) was a courtesan of Ujjayini according to ancient Indian literature, who earned fame and prosperity due to her finesse in various art forms such as singing, dancing, poetry, and courting as well as for her beauty. She ...

Subbaiah Naidu Mysore Venkatappa Subbaiah Naidu (1896 – 21 July 1962) was an Indian stage artiste in the silent movies era. He was an actor and director, well known for the movies '' Sati Sulochana'' (1934) in Kannada, which was also the first Kannada talkie ...

as Charudatta * R. Nagendra Rao as Sakara *

S. K. Padmadevi S. K. Padmadevi (1924 – 19 September 2019) was an Indian actress in the Kannada and Tamil film industries. Padmadevi started working in Kannada theatre in 1930 and remained active on stage till 1960. Later she was associated with All India Ra ...

as Madanika * Chandramma as Dhoota Devi * Sarojamma as Radhanika * Sundaramma * Baby Vinoda as Rohasena * G. V. Krishnamurthy Rao as Maitreya * G. R. Sandow as Kotwal

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed by P Kalinga Rao, Saraswathi Stores Orchestra, H R Padmanabha Shashtri, B.Devendrappa with lyrics for the soundtracks penned by Ramakrishna Sastry and R Nagendra Rao.Movie Songs
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VasantaSena on Chiloka
1941 films 1940s Kannada-language films Indian black-and-white films Indian films based on plays Films about courtesans in India {{1940s-Kannada-film-stub