Mayor Muthanna

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Mayor Muthanna
Directed by Siddalingaiah
Story byBasumani
Produced byAmbuja Dwarakeesh
Starring Rajkumar
M. P. Shankar
Bharathi
Balakrishna
Kanchana
Thoogudeepa Srinivas
CinematographyP. S. Prakash
Edited byBal G. Yadav
Music by Rajan–Nagendra
Production
company
Sri Venkateshwara Cinetone
Distributed byDwaraka Films
Release date
  • 1969 (1969)
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

Mayor Muthanna is a 1969 Indian Kannada-language film directed by Siddalingaiah. The film stars Rajkumar and Bharathi. The film was Siddalingaiah's debut as a director and actor Dwarkish's first independent production venture who had earlier co- produced the 1966 movie Mamatheya Bandhana with 2 other people under Thunga Pictures. [1] The sub-plot of the film regarding the salvaging of the sub-standard grain was inspired by the 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. [2] The movie was remade in Telugu in 1974 as Chairman Chalamayya starring Chalam. [3]

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Cast

Production and Release

MGR who hardly portrayed roles requiring him to consume alcohol had appeared in one such role in the song Javvathu Medai from the 1963 Tamil movie Panathottam . [4] Producer Dwarkish wanted Rajkumar to do a similar sequence. Rajkumar, who like MGR, does not appear in roles requiring him to consume alcohol on-screen, refused to do such a song and hence they incorporated a sequence where he only had to act as though he has consumed alcohol. Another song Ayyayyayyo Hallimukha was shot at HMT swimming pool even though it was raining since both Dr.Rajkumar and Bharati were supposed to go to Jaipur for the shooting of another movie Sri Krishnadevaraya from the next day. [5] The movie was made with a budget of Rs. 1.10 lakhs. [6] This was the first Kannada movie to be sold to distributors before release. However, the producer had lamented that he did a pre-release business at a very less amount which would give him only a paltry sum of ₹50,000 as profit whereas post release the movie did a business of ₹10 lakhs. [5]

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed by the duo Rajan–Nagendra, with lyrics written by Chi. Udaya Shankar.

Track #SongSinger(s)
1"Onde Naadu" P. B. Sreenivas, S. Janaki
2"Hello Hello" L. R. Eswari
3"Mayor Muthanna" Dwarakeesh
4"Haavige Mungusiyuntu"P. B. Sreenivas, L. R. Eswari, Dwarakeesh
5"Ayyayyayyo Hallimukka"L. R. Eswari
6"Halliyaadarenu Shiva"P. B. Sreenivas

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