Srikanta (film)

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Srikanta
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Directed by Manju Swaraj
Written byManju Swaraj
Based onSkhalana
by Nagathihalli Chandrashekar
Produced byM. S. Manu Gowda
Starring Shiva Rajkumar
Chandini Sreedharan
CinematographyB. Sureshbabu
Edited byDeepu S. Kumar
Music by B. Ajaneesh Loknath
Production
company
Mahashaila Cinebandha
Release date
  • 6 January 2017 (2017-01-06)
Running time
138 minutes
CountryIndia
Language Kannada
Budget₹6 crore

Srikanta is a 2017 Indian Kannada-language romantic action drama film directed by Manju Swaraj and produced by M. S. Manu Gowda under the banner Mahashaila Cinebandha. [1] Based on the 2-page short story Skhalana by Nagathihalli Chandrashekar which was published in 1985 in the weekly Kannada magazine Taranga, the film features Shiva Rajkumar and Chandini Sreedharan in the lead roles, while Vijay Raghavendra, Achyuth Kumar and Raj Deepak Shetty appear in supporting roles. [2] [3]

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Srikanta was released on 6 January 2017 and was a commercial success at the box office. [4]

Plot

Due to an ongoing strike about the political scams in Karnataka, Srikantha offers a ride to a reporter named Tarun who wants to go to Agumbe. Tarun asks about Srikanta's background and lifestyle, where Srikanta reveals his past.

Past: Srikanta and his friends does odd jobs for politicians. In order to defeat MLA Devaraj out of spite, Devaraj's PA Prabhu plans on running an equally popular humble social worker Satyamurthy, who also serves the public directly. Prabhu asks for Srikanta's help to spread publicity about the candidate. Srikanta obliges after payment, where he moves promotions to full swing. Shashi asks Srikanta for help as some goons acted inappropriately with her friend and took illicit photos.

Srikanta destroys the photos and later finds out that Shashi run an ashram for physically challenged children and is also collecting donations. Srikanta rounds many locals and asks them to volunteer for organ donation after they pass to help the children of the ashram. This pleases Shashi and makes her develops feelings for Srikanta, but Srikanta rejects her and tells that his lifestyle is not for her and it is her mistake to love him. Despite this, Srikanta and Shashi marry, but Srikanta does not change as Shashi had hoped even after she becomes pregnant.

Meanwhile, Satyamurthy is growing more and more popular against Devaraj. To bolster even more support, Srikanta is asked to bring more people to stage a publicity stunt. Srikanta's friends denies to volunteer, but one of his friends named Arundathi agrees to volunteer. As part of the stunt, gasoline is poured with no intention to actually light a fire. Despite this, someone lights a fire and quickly escapes, which shocks Srikanta as Arundathi is now dead. After seeing Prabhu escaping from the crowd, Srikanta tries to kill Prabhu, but Prabhu reveals that Satyamurthy had caused the burnings as he had been acting as a ruse of a humble person and was actually vying for a political seat for the whole time.

Srikanta tries to expose Satyamurthy, but realizes that Satyamurthy is almost untouchable at this point. Additionally, Shashi leaves Srikanta, but Srikanta barely convinces her to rejoin him and they bond with each other and their imminent child. Satyamurthy targets the ashram as it is a prime real estate, where he kicks out the ashram's head Subbanna and the residents. Srikanta and Prabhu plan a sting operation on the top political candidates, including Devaraj and Satyamurthy, causing the government to implode. As they prepare to deliver the evidence, Srikanta gets a call from Satyamurthy, who has kidnapped Shashi. Srikanta saves Shashi and a fight ensues while the evidence is being aired on all the news channels. Shashi and Srikanta barely escape from Satyamurthy, where the public joins together and thrashes Satyamurthy to death.

Present: Srikanta and Tarun arrive at Shashi's village, where many people are waiting. Srikanta opens the trunk and collect Shashi's dead corpse so that Shashi's parents can mourn, shocking Tarun. Srikanta and Tarun leave and continue their journey to Agumbe. Srikanta reveals that Satyamurthy had actually landed a swing on Shashi's womb. Despite Srikanta rushing Shashi via ambulance, the ambulance was struck by the riots which Srikanta himself had caused and Shashi died in the ambulance. Despite feeling the pain and sorrow due to his undoing, Srikanta finds solace in knowing that Shashi is always with him.

Cast

Soundtrack

Srikanta
Soundtrack album by
B. Ajaneesh Loknath
Released17 December 2016
Recorded2016
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length17:56
Label Junglee Music

The background score and soundtrack of the film was composed by B. Ajaneesh Loknath. The soundtrack album consists of five tracks. [5] It has lyrics penned by Prof. Krishne Gowda, Pradyumna Narahalli, Chethan Kumar and V. Nagendra Prasad. The album was released on 17 December 2017. [6]

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Kaalittare Yuddhane"Prof. Krishne Gowda Hemanth, Shashank Sheshagiri, Chintan Vikas 4:07
2."Ondondsari"Prof. Krishne Gowda Karthik, Shilpa Srikanth3:19
3."Kannane Kannane" Pradyumna Narahalli, Chethan Kumar Shiva Rajkumar, Bobby3:54
4."Antharangada Aase" V. Nagendra Prasad Shashank Sheshagiri 4:20
5."Shiva Shiva Maharaja"  Hemanth Kumar, Shashank Sheshagiri, Chintan Vikas2:16
Total length:17:56

Reception

Critical response

S. Shyam Prasad of Bangalore Mirror gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote "Manju Swaraj who had shown his good grip on narrating a story in films like Shravani Subramanya has one more winner on his hands. Srikanta has a simple enough storyline, but a superbly charted screenplay makes it engaging and entertaining." [7] Sunayana Suresh of  The Times of India gave 3/5 stars and wrote "The film doesn't go jingoistic and play to the gallery like Shankar's films that touch upon such topics of social reforms, but is rather subdued in its style". [8]

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  4. ↑ "Will "Srikanta" release on Jan 6?". News Karnataka. 23 December 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  5. ↑ "Srikanta (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - EP". iTunes. 17 December 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  6. ↑ "Srikanta Audio Launch On Dec 17". Filmibeat. 16 December 2016. Archived from the original on 14 December 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
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