Mandya (film)

Mandya
DVD cover
Directed by	Om Prakash Rao
Written by	Purushottam Rao
Based on	Samba (Telugu)
Produced by	Om Prakash Rao
Starring	Darshan Rakshita Radhika
Cinematography	Anaji Nagaraj
Edited by	S. Manohar
Music by	Gurukiran
Production company	Thrisha Pictures
Release date	6 January 2006 (2006-01-06)
Running time	161 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Mandya is a 2006 Indian Kannada-language action drama film produced and directed by Om Prakash Rao and written by Purushottam Rao. The film stars Darshan, Radhika and Rakshita in the lead roles. The film is a remake of Telugu film Samba (2004).

Cast

• Darshan as Ganesh alias Eshwar
• Rakshita as Parvathi
• Radhika Kumaraswamy as Ganga
• Swasthik Shankar as Eshwar's uncle
• Dharma as Bhadrayya
• Ravi Chetan as Chetu
• Lakshman as Parvathi's father
• Siddharth as Bhadrayya's aide
• G. V. Sudhakar Naidu as Bhadrayya's aide
• Harish Rai as Jaggu
• Sathyajith as Bhadrayya's aide
• Diganth as Harsha
• Sadhu Kokila as Subramanya
• Anantha Velu as Dhanraj
• Shobaraj as Cylinder Seena
• Siddaraju Kalyankar as Siddanna
• Kirloskar Sathya as Dharmanna
• Sudharani as Gayatri
• Chitra Shenoy as Bhadrayya's wife
• Malathi Sardeshpande
• Shailaja Joshi
• Pushpa Swamy as mother of Priya's stalker
• Avinash as Bhoopayya
• Ashwath Narayan
• R. G. Vijayasarathy as father of Priya's stalker
• Karibasavaiah as Halappa
• Baby Raksha as young Gayatri

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed by Gurukiran. ^[1]

Mandya
Soundtrack album by Gurukiran
Released	2006 (2006)
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Anand Audio

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Moriya Oh Bappa"	Rajesh Krishnan
2.	"Sundara"	Anupama, Timmy
3.	"Ko Ko Ko Koli"	Gurukiran, Anuradha Sriram
4.	"Muttidare Yaako"	Gurukiran, Shamitha Malnad, Malathi
5.	"Eshwar"	Gurukiran

Reception

A critic from The Hindu wrote that "But in Mandya, he [Om Prakash Rao] staggers continuously and loses grip of the storyline. Thus he remains a stranger to both what he wants to convey and what he conveys". ^[2] A critic from Rediff.com wrote that the film "fails to generate interest among the viewers because of a weak script". ^[3] Sify called it "strictly for Darshan fans". ^[4] Echoing the same, a critic from Chitraloka.com wrote that "the film is stitched for Darshan fans". ^[5]

References

1. Mandya Songs
2. Venkatasubba Rao, K.N. (8 January 2006). "The message is unclear in 'Mandya'". The Hindu . Archived from the original on 4 May 2007.
3. Vijayasarathy, R. G. (10 January 2006). "Mandya: Darshan carries it on his shoulders". Rediff.com .
4. "Mandya". Sify . Archived from the original on 15 March 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20070504143923/http://www.chitraloka.com/sections/how_is_it/mandya_2006.shtml

External links

• Mandya at IMDb