Mandya (film)

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

Mandya
Mandya
	Official poster
Directed by	Om Prakash Rao
Written by	Purushottam Rao
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;
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]

No.	Title	Singer(s)
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]

References

^ Mandya Songs
^ Venkatasubba Rao, K.N. (8 January 2006). "The message is unclear in 'Mandya'". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 4 May 2007.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ Vijayasarathy, R. G. (10 January 2006). "Mandya: Darshan carries it on his shoulders". Rediff.com.
^ "Mandya". Archived from the original on 15 March 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2023.