Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Satyavan Savitri
# Ramesh’s direction. Cast includes - Ramesh, Jennifer Kotwal, Daisy Bopanna, Anirudha, Mohan, Netra.
# Jaggesh’s brother Komal has, unknown to me, good fan following. Crowd cheered, clapped, whistled when he came on screen. There is a sub-plot for him which is not in the original.
# Its a remake of “Maine Pyar Kyoun Kiya”. Knew this [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Movie Reviews by Rk
Monday, August 6th, 2007
Rangashankara - Neenaanaadrenaaneenena
# This is a play of classic story of mistaken identities. There are two pairs of twins and they mix up.
# Good name of the play!
# In brief - 1.1 (one set’s one of the twins) and 2.1 are initially friends. They come to a city which also had was inhabited by 1.2 and 2.2 [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Play Review by Rk
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Rangashankara - Maduve Maduve
This is a musical play using quite heavily the poems of “prema kavi” B R Lakshmana Rao to the music of C R Ashwath.
One part of the story is oft-repeated love story - the birth of the story, a third angle which was actually a misunderstanding, happy ending - in marriage. If there was [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Play Review by Rk
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Rangashankara - Mallinatha Dhyana
This was, again, a collection of three short stories by Vaidehi. Given the inclination/theme her stories has, the play too was an attempt to dive into woman’s mind.
There were three protagonists, the first one was most interesting for me. She was Shakuntala, the famous character of Kalidasa’s play. The director/playwright here takes few wonderful [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Play Review by Rk
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Heegadre Hege
Posts of other few events I attended would follow.
Heegadre hege - A play.:
This is a funny play formed after putting together 3 different stories of T. Sunandamma. One talks about the Kannada vs English, one dream about winning the lottery, another about the life of writers, life after retirement. All make us look at [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Play Review by Rk
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Rangashankara - Sankramana
This was an awesome play, one of the best ones I have seen. This is a Hindi play translated to Kannada and directed by S.Surendranath - director of “Nodi swami navirode heege” movie. The play also marks the return (or debut ??) of Girija Lokesh to stage after many years.
Its quite easy to see [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Play Review by Rk
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Duniya
Warning - Spoilers: Story and Ending revealed.
Story:
The story, in a broad sense, is like any other gangster movie which has this protagonist who is forced into the underworld due to poverty/helplessness etc. Like Jogi, this movie also has two threads running in parallel – or even more than Jogi here the emotional line is quite [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Movie Reviews by Rk
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Mungaru Male
Yes, its more than 100 days since the release and almost everything that had to be said about the movie must have been said. But should that be a reason to stop me from writing on my blog ? ( After all its my blog and there are few regular readers, who too will skip [...]