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MONTHLY ROUNDUP OF MAY 2005

MERRY MAKING IN MAY
Aham Premasmi Steals The Show

The month of May 2005 is notable for various good developments. Amitabh Bachchan acting in a Kannada film ‘Amrutha Dhare’ and Kamal Hassan coming back to Kannada has taken place in this month. It is merry making for films like ‘Akash’ that has beaten some of the records at the box office. In the Asian continent for the first time the Kannada film got noticed for the Olfaction solutions. It is the month that saw Ayya completed 100 days, Joke Falls running for 25 weeks, Rakshasa crossed 50 days, Karnana Sampathu a fourteen years old film releasing running successfully even after 25 days. Good developments and good collection at the box office. What else the Kannada filmdom requires! 

FILMS RELEASED

  • 5th May 2005
    KARNANA SAMPATHU – Producer – Muralikrishna, Direction – Shantharam Kanagal, Music – Gururaj of Sound of Music, Cast – Ambarish, Thara, Umasri, Ashwath, Honnavalli Krishna and others
     
  • 12th May 2005 (Thursday)
    GUNNA – Producer –Sa.Ra.Govindu, Direction –Dwarki, Music – Mahesh, Camera – Sundarnath Suvarna, Cast – Mayoor Patel, Chytra, Rangayana Raghu Sudeep in guest role and others.
     
  • 20th May 2005
    MR BAKRA – Producer – Babu Reddy, Direction – Vasanth, Music – V.Manohar, Camera – Janardhan Babu, Cast – Jaggesh, Rohini, Srinivasamurthy, M.N.Lakshmidevi, Bank Janardhan, Biradar and others.
     
  • 27th May 2005
    AHAM PREMASMI – Banner – Ishwari Pictures, Story, Screenplay, Dialogues, Direction, Editing, Music, guest role – V.RAVICHANDRAN, Cinematography – G.S.V.Seetharam, Cast – Ishwar, Arathi Chabria, Chitra Shenoy, Ramakrishna, Sharan, Comedy Time Ganesh, Bullet Prakash and others.

    EVENTS AND DEVELOPMENTS

  • Amitabh Bachchan makes a brief presence in a Kannada film, his first South Indian film ‘Amrutha Dhare’. He plays the role of savior of hero Dhyan in the film. The shooting was held in Mumbai for four days. 
  • Noted actor of Indian cinema, the top South Indian actor Kamal Hassan has come back to Kannada after 18 years in ‘Rama Shama Bhama’. 
  • OLFACTION SOLUTION was introduced to Kannada film ‘Gunna’ for four songs. This is for the first time in Asia. Sa.Ra.Govindu is the producer of this film. 
  • Roaring success of ‘Akash’ starring Puneeth Rajkumar and Ramya has broken all previous records in the box office. 
  • Cigarette smoking banned on silver screen. 
  • Aham Premasmi ring tones in Hutch mobile phones. 
  • The Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce honored Smt.Parvathamma Rajkumar for having received the 136th Dada Saheb Phalke Academy award in Mumbai on April 30th. 
  • Actor Shivadwaj got married. 
  • Lok Ayuktha complain on actor cum IAS officer Shivaramu and recommends suspension of his services. 
  • Master Kishen to direct ‘Care of Foot Path’. 
  • Salman Khan comes to Bangalore for a live musical program. 
  • The non Kannada language onslaught is increasing says yesteryears actress Harini in ‘Maneyangaladhalli Mathukathe’. 
  • C.Ashwath gets ‘Kempe Gowda Sri’ award. 
  • If you come with your husband the ticket is free for the wife- new tactics of ‘Karnana Sampathu’. 
  • Sri Raghavendra Chitravani honor on its 28th year of existence at a city auditorium. 
  • Upendra and Priyanka become parents to a female kid. 
  • T.N.Seetharam leaves to USA to market the DVD of Maayamruga and address Kannada Sanghas. 
  • Sa.Ra.Govindu appears on prestigious Star TV for the Olfaction solution he adopted in ‘Gunna’ Kannada film at Narthaki theatre.

NEWCOMERS IN THE MONTH
 Ishwar, Arathi Chabria from Aham Premasmi, trailblazer Ravichandran becomes an editor also, Rohini from Mr Bakra, Babu Reddy becomes producer and Vasanth debut as director from Mr Bakra. Dwarki’s maiden directorial venture is ‘Gunna’.

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