Kurigalu Saar Kurigalu

Kurigalu Saar Kurigalu (transl. Sheep sir Sheep) is a 2001 Indian Kannada-language comedy film directed and written by Rajendra Singh Babu. The film stars Ramesh Aravind, S. Narayan, Mohan, Bhavana, Ruchita Prasad and Ananth Nag in the lead roles. This is the first film in the Saar series directed by Babu and was released on 23 March 2001 and received generally positive reviews from the critics and turned out to be box-office hit.[1]

Kurigalu Saar Kurigalu
Directed bydirector
Written bywriter
Produced byproducer
StarringRamesh Aravind
S. Narayan
Mohan
Ananth Nag
Bhavana
Umashree
Narrated bynarrator
CinematographyB. C. Gowrishankar
Edited byB. S. Kemparaju
Music byHamsalekha
Production
company
Lakshmi Creations
Distributed bydistributor
Release date
  • 23 March 2001 (2001-03-23)
Running time
151 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

The film won the Karnataka State Film Award for Third Best Film and also Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress to Umashree for the year 2001.[2][3] The film's title is based on a famous poem on herd mentality written by acclaimed poet K. S. Nissar Ahmed.

Plot edit

Rummi (Ramesh Aravind), Nani (S. Narayan) and Moni (Mohan Shankar) are three inmates who wants to remain in jail permanently as they do not want to witness outside world. A kind hearted inspector (Srinivasa Murthy) gets them released as he finds goodness in them and wants them to lead a good life. All the three get a home thanks to an auto driver (Sundar Raj) with a condition that one of them marries his middle aged elder sister (Umashree) who is unmarried. Umashree falls in love with Nani assuming him to be Lord Krishna. However he escapes from the forced marriage. All the three ends up falling in love with different girls. Due to a mix up they end receiving a bag of money intended for other robbers. All the three witness Srinivasa Murthy's daughter and her lover (Harish Raj) committing suicide and after saving them, they come to know that Srinivasa Murthy is ill and she is forced by her uncle (Doddanna) to marry his immature son (Komal Kumar) to take over her property. In the end, trio with the help of their lovers (two of them being undercover police) and an inspector (Anant Nag) teach them a lesson, gets them arrested and they get married in the end.

Cast edit

Production edit

The film was launched at Ramanashri California Resort, near Yelahanka in the outskirts of Bangalore and the film's first shot was also shot there on the same day.[4] Ramani who earlier worked in Telugu films and dialogue writer Nanjunda assisted in penning the screenplay.[5]

Soundtrack edit

Kurigalu Saar Kurigalu
Soundtrack album by
Released
2001
GenreFeature film soundtrack
LabelAnand Audio
Track # Song Singer(s) Lyrics
1 "Ayyo Hogi Saar" Mano, Hemanth Kumar, Badri Prasad Hamsalekha
2 "Chori Chakori" Hemanth Kumar Hamsalekha
3 "Sondi Sondi" Hemanth Kumar, Rajesh Krishnan, Badri Prasad Hamsalekha
4 "Nidire Baradire" Mano, Hemanth Kumar, Badri Prasad Hamsalekha
5 "Kutti Kutti" Ramesh Chandra, Chitra Sivaraman Hamsalekha

Reception edit

A critic from Chitraloka wrote that "A heavily loaded nonstop silly comedy surrounding the three wayward youths is quite interesting film. Forget the logic and watch this".[6] Indiainfo wrote "The movie basically suffers from a weak storyline; the story seems to be beyond even the director's control. The first half is funny but in the second half, the story loses shape".[7]

References edit

  1. ^ Mehu, Sowmya Aji (27 July 2001). "Kannada film industry `Bahala Chennagide'". The Times of India.
  2. ^ Shivaraj, Tara, Anu bag State film awards
  3. ^ Mussanje adjudged best Kannada film
  4. ^ "Kurigalu ... Saar Kurigalu Rajendra Singh Babu's film on the floors". Screen. 21 July 2000. Archived from the original on 19 November 2000. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  5. ^ "Indiainfo: Kannada: on the sets". India info. Archived from the original on 10 February 2003.
  6. ^ Movie Review
  7. ^ "Kurigalu Sar Kurigalu". India Info. Archived from the original on 14 February 2003. Retrieved 19 October 2023.

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