Ganeshana Maduve
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Ganeshana Maduve is a 1990 Kannada
romantic
comedy-drama
film directed by Phani Ramachandra
. It stars Anant Nag
, Vinaya Prasad
, Mukhyamantri Chandru
, Ramesh Bhat
among others. It was a big box-office hit in its time and is considered to be one of the great Kannada comedy films.
god Ganesha
, who is supposed to be a bachelor.
(housing complex) owned by Ramanamurthy. Shastri, known for his love of beer
, is his roommate. Ramanamurthy maintains a traditional Hindu middle class household. His elder daughter has eloped with a lover and he does not approve of this. Eventually, he gets her to hold a traditional wedding, even though she has been married already in a civil marriage
and has two children, to accept her back as a daughter. In order to prevent a similar fate for his younger daughter, Adilakshmi, he wants to find a match for her to perform an arranged marriage
. His friend, Govinda (who is also Ganesha's father), in the meanwhile, arrives in Bangalore
from Mysore, with his cricket
-crazy wife (played by Vaishali Kasaravalli
). Govinda and Ramanamurthy find out that both their children would make a good match for each other and decide to hold an engagement for them.
In the meanwhile, Ganesha falls in love with the singer Shruti, whose singing he hears on the national radio, although he has never met her. He writes letters expressing his admiration and love, using the "more modern" pen-name of Y. G. Rao (shortened from Y. Ganesh Rao), to All India Radio
where Shruti, alias Adilakshmi, reads them and falls in love with Y. G. Rao. But as long as they actually meet each other in the Vatara, they express a feeling of mutual animosity. As soon as they hear that their engagement has been fixed, they try to get out of this by various means, all devised by Shastri. Both of them succeed in doing so and the friendship between Ramanamurthy and Govinda is strained as a result. But eventually, Ganesha and Adilakshmi discover that they are actually Y. G. Rao and Shruti respectively and fall in love and decide to get married. Ramanamurthy, in the meanwhile, tries to fix Adilakshmi's wedding to Parameshi, a film director. But she convinces her father that Parameshi has AIDS
with the help of Ganesha and a fake doctor and the engagement is cancelled. So, in the final scene they explain their love to both their parents, convince them by some situational means and get married. Shastri is also married to Abhilasha, who initially had the hots for Ganesha.
(housing complex), in Bangalore
. One of the more memorable scenes involving the painting of the house has a funny story behind it. Originally, it was meant that the whole Vatara was to be painted. But due to a low budget, this was not found feasible and in order to make it sound reasonable through the plot, the scene where Ganesha brings a dog and punishes it by calling it "Ramanamurthy" was modified. In the modified scene, the house-owner Ramanamurthy, feeling insulted by Ganesha's actions, agrees to Ganesha's demand for fairness and decides not to paint his own house nor any of the other houses. Originally, he was supposed to have the entire Vatara painted, but due to a limited budget, the plot was changed this way.
Kannada language
Kannada or , is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Karnataka. Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas and number roughly 50 million, is one of the 30 most spoken languages in the world...
romantic
Romantic Comedy
Romantic Comedy can refer to* Romantic Comedy , a 1979 play written by Bernard Slade* Romantic Comedy , a 1983 film adapted from the play and starring Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen...
comedy-drama
Comedy-drama
Comedy-drama is a genre of theatre, film and television programs which combines humorous and serious content.-Theatre:Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided into comedy and tragedy...
film directed by Phani Ramachandra
Phani Ramachandra
H. S. Phani Ramachandra is a Kannada film and television director. He is known for directing such classic Kannada comedy films as Ganeshana Maduve and Gauri Ganesha and the TV serial Dandapindagalu...
. It stars Anant Nag
Anant Nag
Anant Nagarkatte popularly known as Anant Nag is an actor and politician from Karnataka, India. He is considered to be one of the all time greatest actors in the Kannada film industry with a vast number of commercially successful movies. As a result, he is popularly known as an actor with...
, Vinaya Prasad
Vinaya Prasad
Vinaya Prasad is a popular film and television actress in South India.She hails from Udupi. Vinaya made her film debut with a small role in G V Iyer’s Madhwacharya in 1988. She worked in smaller character roles before playing the leading lady in Ganeshana Maduve opposite Ananth Nag...
, Mukhyamantri Chandru
Mukhyamantri Chandru
Mukhya Mantri Chandru is a Kannada movie actor who resides in Bangalore, Karnataka. He is a versatile actor, easily fitting into comedy roles or playing more serious parts as a villain. Mukhya Mantri was a drama in which he played the lead which resulted in getting the prefix to his original name...
, Ramesh Bhat
Ramesh Bhat
Ramesh Bhat is a multiple-award–winning Indian actor in the Kannada film industry, known for comedy and drama roles.Being a close associate of Shankar Nag, Ramesh Bhat made his entry into Kannada Cinema as a senior police officer in Shankar Nag's Minchina Ota.Ramesh Bhat has acted in movies such as...
among others. It was a big box-office hit in its time and is considered to be one of the great Kannada comedy films.
Title
The title is a reference to the HinduHindu
Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...
god Ganesha
Ganesha
Ganesha , also spelled Ganesa or Ganesh, also known as Ganapati , Vinayaka , and Pillaiyar , is one of the deities best-known and most widely worshipped in the Hindu pantheon. His image is found throughout India and Nepal. Hindu sects worship him regardless of affiliations...
, who is supposed to be a bachelor.
Plot
The plot essentially involves a love story between Ganesha, alias Y. G. Rao, and Adilakshmi, alias Shruti, who initially do not know the true identity of each other. Ganesha lives in the VataraVatara
A Vatara is a type of housing, similar to an apartment complex, typically found in urban Karnataka, India. Vataras usually have two storeys, with a row of homes on each floor. They usually have a common courtyard in the middle...
(housing complex) owned by Ramanamurthy. Shastri, known for his love of beer
Beer
Beer is the world's most widely consumed andprobably oldest alcoholic beverage; it is the third most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of sugars, mainly derived from malted cereal grains, most commonly malted barley and malted wheat...
, is his roommate. Ramanamurthy maintains a traditional Hindu middle class household. His elder daughter has eloped with a lover and he does not approve of this. Eventually, he gets her to hold a traditional wedding, even though she has been married already in a civil marriage
Civil marriage
Civil marriage is marriage performed by a government official and not a religious organization.-History:Every country maintaining a population registry of its residents keeps track of marital status, and most countries believe that it is their responsibility to register married couples. Most...
and has two children, to accept her back as a daughter. In order to prevent a similar fate for his younger daughter, Adilakshmi, he wants to find a match for her to perform an arranged marriage
Arranged marriage
An arranged marriage is a practice in which someone other than the couple getting married makes the selection of the persons to be wed, meanwhile curtailing or avoiding the process of courtship. Such marriages had deep roots in royal and aristocratic families around the world...
. His friend, Govinda (who is also Ganesha's father), in the meanwhile, arrives in Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
from Mysore, with his cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
-crazy wife (played by Vaishali Kasaravalli
Vaishali Kasaravalli
- External links :* Vaishali Kasaravalli: A multifaceted personality http://sify.com/movies/fullstory.php?id=14957662* http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/kannada/article/60381.html* http://hindu.com/2010/09/28/stories/2010092854900500.htm...
). Govinda and Ramanamurthy find out that both their children would make a good match for each other and decide to hold an engagement for them.
In the meanwhile, Ganesha falls in love with the singer Shruti, whose singing he hears on the national radio, although he has never met her. He writes letters expressing his admiration and love, using the "more modern" pen-name of Y. G. Rao (shortened from Y. Ganesh Rao), to All India Radio
All India Radio
All India Radio , officially known since 1956 as Akashvani , is the radio broadcaster of India and a division of Prasar Bharati. Established in 1936, it is the sister service of Prasar Bharati's Doordarshan, the national television broadcaster. All India Radio is one of the largest radio networks...
where Shruti, alias Adilakshmi, reads them and falls in love with Y. G. Rao. But as long as they actually meet each other in the Vatara, they express a feeling of mutual animosity. As soon as they hear that their engagement has been fixed, they try to get out of this by various means, all devised by Shastri. Both of them succeed in doing so and the friendship between Ramanamurthy and Govinda is strained as a result. But eventually, Ganesha and Adilakshmi discover that they are actually Y. G. Rao and Shruti respectively and fall in love and decide to get married. Ramanamurthy, in the meanwhile, tries to fix Adilakshmi's wedding to Parameshi, a film director. But she convinces her father that Parameshi has AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
with the help of Ganesha and a fake doctor and the engagement is cancelled. So, in the final scene they explain their love to both their parents, convince them by some situational means and get married. Shastri is also married to Abhilasha, who initially had the hots for Ganesha.
Cast
- Anant NagAnant NagAnant Nagarkatte popularly known as Anant Nag is an actor and politician from Karnataka, India. He is considered to be one of the all time greatest actors in the Kannada film industry with a vast number of commercially successful movies. As a result, he is popularly known as an actor with...
as the title character Ganesha - Vinaya PrasadVinaya PrasadVinaya Prasad is a popular film and television actress in South India.She hails from Udupi. Vinaya made her film debut with a small role in G V Iyer’s Madhwacharya in 1988. She worked in smaller character roles before playing the leading lady in Ganeshana Maduve opposite Ananth Nag...
as Adi Lakshmi — daughter of the house-owner - Mukhyamantri ChandruMukhyamantri ChandruMukhya Mantri Chandru is a Kannada movie actor who resides in Bangalore, Karnataka. He is a versatile actor, easily fitting into comedy roles or playing more serious parts as a villain. Mukhya Mantri was a drama in which he played the lead which resulted in getting the prefix to his original name...
as Ramanamurthy — the house-owner - Ramesh BhatRamesh BhatRamesh Bhat is a multiple-award–winning Indian actor in the Kannada film industry, known for comedy and drama roles.Being a close associate of Shankar Nag, Ramesh Bhat made his entry into Kannada Cinema as a senior police officer in Shankar Nag's Minchina Ota.Ramesh Bhat has acted in movies such as...
as Shastri — Ganesha's roommate - Vaishali KasaravalliVaishali Kasaravalli- External links :* Vaishali Kasaravalli: A multifaceted personality http://sify.com/movies/fullstory.php?id=14957662* http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/kannada/article/60381.html* http://hindu.com/2010/09/28/stories/2010092854900500.htm...
as Ganesha's mother
Production
The film was shot in a VataraVatara
A Vatara is a type of housing, similar to an apartment complex, typically found in urban Karnataka, India. Vataras usually have two storeys, with a row of homes on each floor. They usually have a common courtyard in the middle...
(housing complex), in Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
. One of the more memorable scenes involving the painting of the house has a funny story behind it. Originally, it was meant that the whole Vatara was to be painted. But due to a low budget, this was not found feasible and in order to make it sound reasonable through the plot, the scene where Ganesha brings a dog and punishes it by calling it "Ramanamurthy" was modified. In the modified scene, the house-owner Ramanamurthy, feeling insulted by Ganesha's actions, agrees to Ganesha's demand for fairness and decides not to paint his own house nor any of the other houses. Originally, he was supposed to have the entire Vatara painted, but due to a limited budget, the plot was changed this way.