''Vijayanagarada Veeraputhra'' is a

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

Indian Kannada-language film, directed and produced by

R. Nagendra Rao Rattihalli Nagendra Rao (23 June 1896 – 9 February 1977) was an Indian theatre actor, film actor and director in South Indian cinema. Following his career in theatre, Rao turned to film a where he became an actor, director, producer, screenwr ...

. The film stars

R. N. Sudarshan Rattihalli Nagendra Sudarshan (2 May 1939 – 8 September 2017) was an Indian actor and producer who had mainly worked in Kannada cinema. He had also acted in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Malayalam films. During a career spanning more than five de ...

, B. Saroja Devi,

and Kalyan Kumar in the lead roles. The film's musical score was composed by

M. S. Viswanathan Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan (24 June 1928 – 14 July 2015), also known as M.S.V., was an Indian music director, singer and actor who predominantly worked in Tamil film industry. He was popularly known as ''Mellisai Mannar''. He compose ...

and T. K. Ramamurthy. Although set in the backdrop of the Vijayanagara Empire at the close of the 15th century, the movie was wholly fictional and was more in the nature of a medieval action and revenge drama with intelligent doses of conspiracy, plotting, melodrama and old-style romance thrown in.

Cast

* B. Saroja Devi *

* Kalyan Kumar * Udaykumar *Sandhya *Lakshmidevi *Ramadevi *Baby Lakshmi * Balakrishna * Narasimharaju *Ganapathi Bhat *H. R. Shastry *Shyamsundar *Hanumantha Rao *M. G. Mari Rao *Udayashankar *G. M. Nanjappa *Sando Prakash *Haneef Kumar *Shivaji Rao *Desharaj *Hanumanthachar *Guggu *Shankarnarayan *Maheshwaraiah *Gopal Rao *Shakunthala *Shashi *Kala *Mala *Leela *Janardhan

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy were an Indian music composing duo composed of M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy. They worked together on over 100 films, from 1952's '' Panam'' to 1965's '' Aayirathil Oruvan''. After their split, Ramamoorthy wo ...

References

External links

* * 1961 films 1960s Kannada-language films Films scored by Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy Films set in the Vijayanagara Empire {{1960s-Kannada-film-stub