On 10th of March the remake of Tamil film ‘Singam’ in Kannada ‘Kempe Gowda’ is releasing with a big bang and on 11th of March Friday ‘Shravana’ a film in the cold storage for two years is releasing.

These two films are releasing as the Kannada film industry is declared holiday from 9th 14th of March. The exhibition is not affected as the declaration is made for the participation in the Vishwa Kannada Sammelana that is taking place from 11th of March to 13th of March in Belgaum.

Sudeep has directed ‘Kempe Gowda’ and incidentally the International Airport in Bengaluru is named after ‘Kempe Gowda’ according to government sources. The cabinet decision has come on Monday evening to this effect.

However this Kannada film ‘Kempe Gowda’ has got nothing to do with the founder of Bengaluru Kempe Gowda. The moustache what founder of ‘Kempe Gowda’ had is the only similarity.

Shanker Productions R Shanker produced ‘Kempe Gowda’ is hitting in over 100 theatres. It is a consolation for producer Shankere Gowda as he lost heavily in Sudeep earlier film ‘Just Math Mathalli’.

Ragini, Girish Karnad, Ashok, Ashok Kheney, Jai Jagadish, Thara, Chitra Shenoy, Sangeetha Dattanna, Sharan, Bullet Prakash are also in the cast.

S Krishna is the cameraman and Arjun has scored the music for ‘Kempe Gowda’. Nagendra Urs is the editor, Ravi Verma and Different Danny have handled the stunts. Harsha and Pradip Anthony are choreographers.

‘Shravana’ starring Vijaya Raghavendra, Gayathri Iyer, Bhuvan Chandra, Sandeep in the direction of Rajasekhar is shot in 27 days in Tumkur district has three songs.

KN Venkatesh and RTO Shivanna (Mallikarjunaiah) are producers of this shoe string budget film. The film ‘Shravana’ has a social message. ‘Shravana’ indicates – Sukha, Sabrama and Santosha. Seethapathi has provided the story for this film. Karthik Bhupathy is the music director and veteran of Puttanna Kanagal time K Vasudev is the man behind camera.