Karpoorada Gombe

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Karpoorada Gombe
Directed by S. Mahendar
Written byS. Mahendar
Produced byM. Chandrashekar
Starring Ramesh Aravind
Shruti
Lokesh
Shwetha
CinematographyKrishna Kumar
Edited byP. R. Soundar Raj
Music by Hamsalekha
Production
company
Sri Nimishamba Productions
Release date
  • 5 June 1996 (1996-06-05)
Running time
150 min
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

Karpoorada Gombe is a 1996 Indian Kannada language romantic drama film directed and written by S. Mahendar. The film stars Ramesh Aravind, Shruti and Shwetha in the lead roles and featured music composed by Hamsalekha. Actor Sharan made his debut with this film. The film was dubbed and released in Tamil as Akka by R. B. Choudary with added comedy track of Vadivelu and Chinni Jayanth. [1] The film was remade in Telugu as Seetakka with Vinod Kumar and Aamani.

Contents

Cast

Soundtrack

All the songs are composed, scored and lyrics written by Hamsalekha.

Sl NoSong TitleSinger(s)
1"O Malligeye" K. S. Chithra
2"Thabbalige Ee Thabbaliya"K. S. Chithra
3"Karpoorada Gombe" Mano, K. S. Chithra
4"O Malebille"Mano, K. S. Chithra
5"Bandhu O Premada"K. S. Chithra

Reception

K. N. Vijiyan of New Straits Times wrote that "S. Mahendar's treatment of the story is very much like what you would find in movies of yeateryear - straight-forward storytelling with no new tricks". [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Vijiyan, K. N. (22 March 1997). "Sruthi vehicle the elderly would love". New Straits Times . pp. Arts 4. Retrieved 23 October 2023.