Chaitrada Premanjali

Chaitrada Premanjali
Chaitrada Premanjali
Directed by	S. Narayan
Written by	S. Narayan
Produced by	M. Shashikala
Starring	Raghuveer; Shwetha; Lokesh; Abhijeeth
Cinematography	P. K. H. Das
Edited by	Suresh Urs
Music by	Hamsalekha
Production; company	M. C. Productions
Release date	13 January 1992
Running time	154 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Chaitrada Premanjali is a 1992 Indian Kannada-language romance drama film directed and written by S. Narayan making his debut in direction. The film stars newcomers Raghuveer and Shwetha along with Lokesh and Abhijeeth in other pivotal roles. The film met with positive reviews upon release from critics and audience eventually becoming the musical hit of the year.^[1]^[2]

The film featured original score and soundtrack composed and written by Hamsalekha. The soundtrack proved to be one of the biggest hit albums of the year.

Plot edit

Fresh faces romance with a tragic end. Karate champion Prem (Raghuveer) goes to the family country retreat to practice for a tournament and falls for village girl Anju (Shweta). Her father (Lokesh), however, prevents the marriage and tries to force her to marry a womanizer with an obliging father. Prem wins his trophy and rescues Anju, but the couple is killed by the bad guys.

Cast edit

Raghuveer as Prem
Shwetha as Anju
Abhijeeth as Mahesh, an evil man
Lokesh as Seenappa, Anju's father
Srinivasa Murthy as Manmatha Rao, Prem's father
Rajanand as Manjayya, servant of Prem's estate
Jyothi Gurucharan as step-mother
Ashalatha as Prem's dead mother
Sathyajith as karate trainer
S. Narayan as Shankar, Prem's close friend
Swasthik Shankar as Jagapathi Rao, Mahesh's father
Shobharaj as Veerabhadra
Thriller manju as Robert, karate champion
Vikram
K.D. Venkatesh
Guru Murthy

Soundtrack edit

The music was composed and written by Hamsalekha for Lahari Music audio company.^[3]

Track listing
No.	Title	Singer(s)
1.	"O Kogile"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
2.	"O Malenadina"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra
3.	"Dance Dance"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
4.	"Nannavare Nanage"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Manjula Gururaj
5.	"Daari Bidu"	Manjula Gururaj
6.	"Chaitrada Premanjaliya"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Chandrika Gururaj
7.	"Kaveri Theeradalli Mungarige"	Latha Hamsalekha

Release edit

The film was ready for release but no theaters were willing to screen the film citing that Raghuveer was not good looking. Ultimately, with the intervention of producer Ramu, theatre owners agreed to screen the film until Khuda Gawah (1992) starring Amitabh Bachchan released. However, soon after the release of this film, theaters had house full shows and Khuda Gawah had to delay its release in Karnataka by one month.^[4]^[5]