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MONTHLY ROUNDUP OF JANUARY 2005

WORRY CONTINUES
February monthly mélange

There is nothing to worry in January. Thanks to previous crops. ‘Aptha Mithra’ (150) ‘Kalasipalya’, ‘Mourya’ and ‘Rahasya’ completed 100 days while ‘Joke Falls’ moved to 50th day. Among the six films released in January ‘Maharaja’, ‘Rishi’ did well at the box office.

FILMS RELEASED

14th January – ‘MAHARAJA’ – Producer –R.S.Gowda, Direction – Om Saiprakash, Cinematography – J.G.Krishna, Music – S.A.Rajkumar, Cast – Sudeep, Nikitha, Bharathi Vishnuvardhana, Ashok, Sunderraj, Bharat Bagavathar, Aravind and others.

MAHASADHWI MALLAMMA – Producers – Sanjeevkumar, Elivana, Jayadagi, Screenplay, Direction – Renukasharma, Camera – V.K.Kannan, Music – Srishaila, Cast – Meena, Sridhar, Saikumar, Rajendraprasad and others.

21st January – RISHI – Producer – J.Jayamma, Direction – Prakash, Music – Gurukiran, Cinematography – Krishnakumar, Cast – Shivrajkumar, Vijayaraghavendra, Sindhu Tholani, Rahdika, Sumithra, Vinayaprasad, Srinath, Ramakrishna, Kishori Ballal, Rekha and others.

JABARDAST – Producer – Bushankumar, Direction, Screenplay, Music – Ram Bharathan Devan, Camera – Suresh Babu, Cast – Bushankumar, Rashmi Kulkarni, B.C.Patil, Jayalaxmi, Swastik Shanker and others.

OLAVE – Producers – Company Films, Story, Screenplay, Direction – P.H.Vishwanath, Cinematography – B.S.Shastri, Music – Hemanthkumar, Cast – Vishal Hegde, Harish, Sandhya, Nagendra Shah, Baby Sheetal and others.

28th January 2005 – SURYA the great – Producer – G.Kumar and Sai Jagannath, Story, screenplay, dialogue and direction – Rushi, Cinematography – Suresh babu, Music – Samson, Cast – Ajay, Shivani, 45 rowdies and others.

EVENTS AND DEVELOPMENTS

  • S.P.B.Musical evening at KSLTA on 15th January 2005. 
  • Information minister assured to solve the industry problem by 20th of January. 
  • • Actor Abijeeth becomes producer from ‘Narasimhanayaka’. 
  • • Nagathihalli Chandrasekhar is the first one to buy Benz car in Kannada filmdom. 
  • • Child prodigy Kishen turns singer. He sings a film for ‘Jootaata’ Kannada film. 
  • • Baraguru Ramachandrappa’s ‘Shanthi’ gets appreciation from United Nations. 
  • • 28 children from Ryan International School in Bangalore released 48 minutes film on AIDS awareness – I was a normal child’. 
  • • Tax holiday for three years to Multiplex theatres in Karnataka. 
  • • Award for best director in the name of HLN Simha says information minister Shivaram. 
  • • Shilpa Shetty released the KMF 2005 calendar on the sets of ‘Auto Shanker’. 
  • • 12 pages Newspaper look like invite for ‘Thunta’ Kannada film starring Eshwar alias Balaji brother of Ravichandran. 
  • • NRI Lakshman Sriram Karaoke musical evening in Bangalore. 
  • • Actress Manya of ‘Varsha’ under production film says she wants to adopt two children from the Tsunami hit area. 
  • • Producer cum TV actor K.P.Nanjundi after a tragic road accident in which he escaped miraculously has come back to acting in TV serial ‘Vatsalya’

DEATH
 Amrish Puri the noted Hindi actor known as ‘Mogambo’ who as acted in a few Kannada films died of brain hemorrhage. 

AWARDS
Karnataka State film awards announced. Shivrajkumar and Radhika share top honors.

Mrinal Sen gets the Dada Saheb Phalke award. This is the highest award given to Cinema in the country.

CONTROVERSY
R.Dhanraj who announced a film on super cop Dayanayak and stopped files a complaint and claims compensation from the ‘Encounter Dayanayak’ producer M.G.Ramamurthy.

NEW COMERS IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY

 Actress Nikitha from Maharaja, Bushankumar, Rambharathan Devan from ‘Jabardast’, Shivani from ‘Surya the Great’, Sandhya from ‘Olave’, Sindhu Tholani from ‘Rishi’, Samson is the new music director from ‘Surya the Great’, producers of ‘Maha Sadhwi Mallamma’ are the newcomers in the released films in the month.

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