Kannada poster in Bangalore
I love the tag line! Some research indicates it’s for a film called Thirupathi.
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I love the tag line! Some research indicates it’s for a film called Thirupathi.
SATYAMSHOT 
September 15, 2009 at 9:03 AM
The folks from Bangalore here could fill us in on the details..
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September 15, 2009 at 9:20 AM
between i did crack that gujju poster check it out…
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September 15, 2009 at 9:20 AM
‘Thirupathi’, it is.. The actor is Sudeep from ‘Phoonk’ fame
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September 15, 2009 at 9:59 AM
thanks.. he’s also in Rann.
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September 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM
some more
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September 15, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Jogi (2005) posters:
http://www.agreatindian.com/Posters/Jogi15.asp
http://www.agreatindian.com/Posters/Jogi1.asp
http://www.agreatindian.com/Posters/Jogi16.asp
http://www.agreatindian.com/Posters/Jogi18.asp
http://www.agreatindian.com/Posters/Jogi3.asp
http://www.agreatindian.com/Posters/Jogi4.asp
http://www.agreatindian.com/Posters/Jogi6.asp
http://www.agreatindian.com/Posters/Jogi8.asp
http://www.agreatindian.com/Posters/Jogi13.asp
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September 15, 2009 at 9:35 AM
this one is classic
ivru PM ivru 8 PM (whiskey) .lol
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September 15, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Best. Tag line. Ever.
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September 15, 2009 at 9:55 AM
The actor looks like Surya in Singam…
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September 15, 2009 at 9:58 AM
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September 15, 2009 at 10:02 AM
This is for you satyam:
This one for Jay :
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September 15, 2009 at 11:46 AM
lol!
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September 15, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Thanks for all the great links!
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September 15, 2009 at 12:01 PM
To all Pokkiri fans
http://www.agreatindian.com/posters/pokiri.asp?pid=7
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September 15, 2009 at 12:05 PM
now this is superb!
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September 15, 2009 at 12:08 PM
its not hyderabad but bangalore!. Mahesh babu has a huge fan base in bangalore
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September 15, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Bangalore is a unique city in this sense.. it is to my mind the only one (in India) where four Southern industries and of course Bollywood truly converge.
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September 15, 2009 at 12:14 PM
I recall cousins of mine who grew up and lived in Bangalore for their teens and twenties saying that the reason this was so was because Kannada films had them running to the other Indian industries!
Seriously though I’ve never seen a Kannada film I’ve liked and I’d love to try and get my hands on a few titles to see how things have come along in the intervening decade or so since I last saw more than one…
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September 15, 2009 at 12:18 PM
I’ve never seen one either though I am of course interested in a couple of important names.. on the rest and based on what I’ve gathered elsewhere I suspect it’s a bit like Telugu cinema with lower budgets. But Aajkaarjun here would be the best guide..
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September 15, 2009 at 12:19 PM
That’s a good strategy! Of course they do have all these linguistic communities and so a wider base than is the case anywhere else. I do know they have some tough laws when it comes to out of state cinema.
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September 15, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Well Bangalore is a city that I probably know a bit better than any other Indian metro, including Trivandrum…I recall being there in the middle of the Rajkumar kidnapping by Veerappan. Exciting times for a movie fan to see the true madness you had with these roving gangs of Rajkumar fans (essentially movie nerds on steroids!) beating on random people who crossed their path and could not answer trivia on the aging mass star! You can’t make this stuff up!
One could easily make a documentary or a docudrama on this episode…it continues to be relevant in many ways both politically and in terms of ardent cinema love in the Southern industries.
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September 15, 2009 at 12:33 PM
“I recall being there in the middle of the Rajkumar kidnapping by Veerappan”
Must have been wild! always thought Veerappan deserved a good film.. RGV wasn’t upto it with Jungle.
By the way I take it you have some working knowledge of Kannada?
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September 15, 2009 at 12:42 PM
I luckily (or unluckily) missed out on some of the more pronounced wildness. But yeah. The city basically shut down for a good stretch which, I’ll selfishly add, killed my trip at the time, but I have to admit it was a kind of thrilling moment to be around for…it was the first time I’d had a direct experience with the truly mythic status accorded to both the movie star and the celebrity “politico” in a local Indian culture.
RGV, if I’m not mistaken, attempted to make a film ridiculously titled “Let’s Catch Veerappan” or something….but that petered out, thankfully.
I don’t know a lick of Kannada. I may have picked up a word here or there as a kid, but I’ve retained next to nothing unfortunately…
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September 15, 2009 at 12:34 PM
the ultimate screen legend of Kannada cinema captured by this larger than life celebrity outlaw.. even the movies couldn’t better this!
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September 15, 2009 at 8:01 PM
The Kannada film industry was completely and thoroughly monopolised for the longest time by Raj Kumar and his family. And though he was a good actor, he was also a crafty producer(read his wife) and manipulator. For most of his time in the industry he actually lived in Chennai for all the post-production work took place there. his kids amazingly grew up there. He(his family) did not allow ANYONE else to come up. His bigtime rival was Vishnuvardhan(his fans and Rajkumar fans often clashed fairly publicly) who at best was a mediocre actor. even in Puttanna Kannagal’s seminal film on a rebel without a cause(NAGARAHAAVU that another poster has referred to) he was sublimely over the top, never having come to grips with the medium of cinema as against the stage.
Then there were people like Shankar Nag and Anant Nag who were politically correct and stayed within their own spheres of work, incidentally both were migrants from Mumbai, in the sense though originally from Karnataka, Shankar did not speak a word of Kannada when he moved to Bengaluru with his brother. However success changed all that and in a short while his talent began to shine through. Once again his films did not quite get very massy though the content was a thinking man’s cuppatea (ACCIDENT, MINCHINA OATA(lightning’s run), NOEDI SWAMI NAAVU IROEDU HEEGE being some of his fare).
Over the years the Kannada film industry has produced fairly pedestrian people including the Ravichandran, Jaggesh types. And when the audiences had a choice of better production values, be it Hindi, Tamil or Telegu that is what they chose!
You had the odd Kasaravalli, Karnad, Karanth, Kannagal do an odd film here or there, but they were never commercially overly successful. For people that really want to check out a decent Kannada flick, I would highly recommend ONDAANONDU KAALADALLI (Karnad’s martial arts flick inspired by Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai). The Dandeli forests have never been more beautifully shot by anyone before!
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September 15, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Thanks for this wonderfully comprehensive comment Aarkayne!
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September 15, 2009 at 10:16 PM
anytime Satyam.
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September 15, 2009 at 12:02 PM
check here for banners & posters on Telugu cinema
http://www.agreatindian.com/posters/posters.asp
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September 15, 2009 at 12:22 PM
“I suspect it’s a bit like Telugu cinema with lower budgets”
Exactly 🙂
I would recommend movies of Girish Kasaravalli & Puttana Kanagal though
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September 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM
I’ve heard very good things about Kasaravalli’s cinema, in fact I believe Adoor Gopalakrishnan is a fan of one of this films…
Kanagal I have not heard of, however…
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September 15, 2009 at 12:31 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttana_Kanagal
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September 15, 2009 at 1:39 PM
I saw “Dweepa” (The Island?) years ago in the cinema in NYC, found it a bit slow but always engrossing — and the film was not at all dialog-heavy, and in that sense was very cinematic, it SHOWED the audience rather than told it. And the whole setting was gorgeous, the natural beauty shot through with a sense of foreboding (the whole film builds up to a bigtime climax). All in all, it might not be to everyone’s taste, but I certainly recommend it…
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September 15, 2009 at 1:41 PM
Not surprised to hear Adoor likes him, based on the scanet evidence of the 2 adoor films and the 1 kasaravalli film I have seen. They both seem to me to be directors of silences. Of the three films from these two directors I have seen, Elippathayam (“Rat Trap”) is far and way the stunner.
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September 15, 2009 at 12:29 PM
those are exactly the two directors I have been interested in though subtitled DVDs might not be forthcoming in this lifetime!
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September 15, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Satyam, GF,Q:
You guys should check out the works of Puttana Kanagal. His films were in the middle path and struck a chord with audience. Girish Kasarvalli movies were always slow and more like art films. Some of the films u might like are ‘Nagarahavu’ (The Cobra) , ‘Sharapanjara’ (Cage of Arrows) ),’Manasasarovara’,’Ranganayaki’. He also directed a few tamil and hindi movies as per this -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttanna_Kanagal
Couple of my freinds have bought some kannada movies them from this site http://www.totalkannada.com But not sure if you get a subtitles in them 🙂
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September 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM
thanks for the link Rajesh..
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September 15, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Thanks Rajesh, will check this link out…
To be honest, I am slowly also becoming more open to watching movies without subtitles, especially if they aren’t otherwise available (e.g. the Tamil film “Puthupettai)…
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September 16, 2009 at 3:20 AM
Q, I thought you understood Tamil. I’am blown away by your review ‘naan kadavul’. I appreciate even more now knowing the fact that you do not know that language.
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September 15, 2009 at 12:30 PM
I’d like to check out a few Sudeep movies as well.. I first saw him on the Rann stills and I think he has a presence.
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September 15, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Aarkayne: your comment is an education for someone like me, who knows nothing about the Kannada industry. Greatly appreciated…
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September 15, 2009 at 9:05 PM
No worries Q. If you have questions shoot them my way. Though I was not raised in Karnataka (I am a Mumbaikar by domicile) I have enough of Kannada running in my blood to have followed it all my life with a lot of interest, wincing at weak things and feeling proud whenever anything of substance came out. For the amount of fantastic literature that the language has (6 Jnanapith awards no less and more than any other language dare i say) the cinema it has produced is abysmal. All they needed to do was convert all that wonderful stuff into movies. Whenever they did, they always did come up with good stuff. I still await the day when someone will write a screenplay of Byrappa’s PARVA(Mahabharata retold in a contemperory vocabulary whose translation English is available through the Sahitya Academy) and it is made into film!
Incidentally I daresay I dont know half as much as our dear friend Shetty does(is he even here?)
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September 16, 2009 at 3:16 AM
Aarkayne, excellent write up above. I’am Bangalorean and have followed kannada movies. But your knowledge of Kannada literature and cinema is awesome, especially as you say not raised in Karnataka. Hats off to you, buddy. Skath Guru 🙂
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September 16, 2009 at 7:08 AM
thanks bro 😉
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September 16, 2009 at 3:52 AM
Rajesh: thanks bro. No, sadly I rely on subtitles. That’s why there is such a lag between release and my review (e.g. of Pasanga, Anjaathey, Naan Kadavul, etc,), because I wait for the subtitled DVD to release. But what frustrates me is that sometimes there are no subtitled DVDs at all (e.g. Evano Oruvan (not a huge problem, as I have seen the original, Dombivli Fast, and this is apparently a scene-to-scene remake); Puthupettai)…the other irritating thing is that while all Hindi prints sent overseas are subtitled, the Tamil ones almost never are. I don’t understand why (they should subtitle them for the same market they subtitle the DVDs for!)…
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September 16, 2009 at 5:02 AM
“Bangalore is a unique city in this sense.. it is to my mind the only one (in India) where four Southern industries and of course Bollywood truly converge.”
True, and this extends to some regions outside Bangalore as well. So it’s perhaps more appropriate to say this of the film audience in some parts of Karnataka.
Though, in Bangalore specifically, I doubt if there’s half as as much an audience for Malayalam films as for Telugu and Tamil films. But again, in the southwest of the state (Mangalore and surrounding regions), I believe Malayalam films are quite popular.
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