Gandedhe

Gandedhe (Kannada: ಗಂಡೆದೆ) is a 2010 Indian Kannada language romantic action film written and directed by Akul Shiva and produced by Ramu of Ramu Enterprises. The film stars Chiranjeevi Sarja and Ragini Dwivedi in the lead roles. Noted composer Chakri scored the music while Ram Narayan wrote the lyrics and dialogues for the film.

The film released on 30 July 2010 across Karnataka. Upon release, the film generally met with average reviews from the critics and audience.^[1]

Plot

Krishna (Chiranjeevi) is a poor college going boy who falls in love with his classmate Nandini (Ragini). Nandini is the daughter of a rich landlord Shankare Gowda (Devaraj). Both fall in love and seeks approval from their parents. Nandini's father is much against the alliance and disapproves the relationship. The rest of the story deals with the methods adopted by Krishna to win over Nandini's family with the help of his friend SMS (Raghu) who has a solution for every issue that Krishna faces.

Cast

• Chiranjeevi Sarja as Krishna
• Ragini Dwivedi as Nandini
• Devaraj as Shankare Gowda
• Rangayana Raghu as SMS
• Sharath Lohitashwa
• Ramesh Bhat
• Aruna Balaraj
• Kashi
• Honnavalli Krishna

Production

Ramu, the head of Ramu Enterprises, teamed up with the Telugu film writer Akul Shiva to direct his debut Kannada film in late 2008. He roped in actor Chiranjeevi Sarja to play the lead role. Actress Ragini Dwivedi was also approached and signed in to the team. The film was announced to be basically set in a college campus background. The unit shot two songs in and around Singapore for about eight days.^[2]

Soundtrack

The audio was launched on Anand Audio label.

All lyrics written by Ram Narayan and Shyam Shimoga; all music composed by Chakri.

References

Further reading

• Movie info
• Movie at GGPedia
• Indiaglitz Review
• Gandedhe Songs list