''Male Nilluvavarege'' is a 2015 Indian

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

film directed by Mohan Shankar and starring himself. The movie is based on a Kannada play by L.N.Sudheendra which was an adaptation of the 1960 English play ''The Deadly Game'' which in turn was based on the 1956 German novel '' A Dangerous Game'' by Swiss writer

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Friedrich Dürrenmatt (; 5 January 1921 – 14 December 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant- ...

. The novel had earlier been adapted into 1963 Marathi play ''

Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe ''Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe'' (''Silence! The Court Is in Session'') is a Marathi play written by Indian playwright Vijay Tendulkar in 1963 and first performed in 1967, directed by Arvind Deshpande, with Sulbha Deshpande as the main lead. F ...

'' by

Vijay Tendulkar Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar (6 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was an Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marathi. His Marathi plays established him as a writ ...

which was adapted into Marathi movie of the same name in 1971 as well the 2017 Hindi movie ''Khamosh Adalat Jaari Hai''. The novel was also later adapted in Hindi as '' Chehre'' (2021) and in Bengali as '' Anusandhan'' (2021).

Cast

Mohan Shankar Mohan Shankar, popularly Mononymous person, mononymously as Mohan, is an Indian actor, writer and film director known for his work in Kannada cinema and television. After beginning his career staging, writing and acting in a variety of Play (th ...

as Mohan * Kavitha Bohra as Isha * H. G. Dattatreya as Peter *

Sharath Lohitashwa Sharatchandra Lohithaswa (born 5 May 1972), known popularly as Sharath Lohithaswa, is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Kannada cinema alongside some Tamil and Telugu films. He has had a successful career in theatre, where he continue ...

as Rachaiah *

Srinivas Prabhu Srinivasa Prabhu is an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry and a theatre artist in Karnataka, India. Some of the notable films of Srinivasa Prabhu as an actor include ''Bimba - Those 90 Minutes'' (2018), '' Kanooru Heggadithi'' (1999), Hudug ...

as Ramaiah *Kari Subbu as Pandu *

M. N. Lakshmi Devi Mysore Narasimhachar Lakshmi Devi, known as M. N. Lakshmi Devi, is a veteran film artist in Kannada films. She is from Chintamani and has had a career of 7 decades. She made her debut in Srinivasa Kalyana (1952) movie and has acted nearly in 1 ...

*Bhumika *Soujanya

Reception

A critic from ''The Times of India'' wrote that "It’s a one-man show by Mohan who plays his role to perfection. Dattatreya, Sharath Lohithahwa, Kari Subbu and Srinivasa Prabhu have done their bit". A critic from ''The Hindu'' opined that "The audience needs to have lot of patience to watch Male Nilluvavarege , with a tag line Beware of Rain, as it is dialogue driven thriller drama woven around an incident that takes place in one night".

References

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