Rajakumara
A film title with ‘Rajakumara’ is very notable because of the icon of Kannada cinema name is also Rajakumara – Muthuraj turned ‘Rajakumara’ from Bedara Kannappa debut in 1954. From then on Dr Rajakumar acted in 206 films in a career of nearly fifty years.
Now his last son Puneeth Rajakumar starring film in Hombale Films is ‘Raajakumara’. Puneeth is given the new crown of ‘Raja Rathna’ that is very apt. In 100th film of Dr Rajakumar ‘Bhagyada Bagilu’ in 1968 there was a song ‘Naane Rajakumara Kannada tayiya premade kuvara, aniti alisi nyayava ulisi Shanthiya nelasalu banda kishora Rajakumar… sung by PB Srinivos and written by Chi Udayashanker was very meaningful. The song meaning appears to be the content of this film.
2017 March 24 release a week after Puneeth Rajakumar birthday is hitting the silver screen with very valuable and thought provoking contents with commercial elements in the direction of Santosh Anand Ram who had given super block buster hit ‘Mr and Mrs Ramachari’.
The film ‘Rajakumara’ takes a look at a few of the ideals of Dr Rajakumar is certain. Yoga and Yogyathe aspect is main stress and the recent social issue of sending parents to old age homes in the wake of software jobs is very topical point. The film also questions how many employed youths have brought back the old parents from the old age homes.
With such topical issue ‘Rajakumara’ boasts of a family subject with nearly 35 well known artists in the cast. Puneeth Rajakumar is paired with Priya Anand an acclaimed actress. Tamil star Sarath Kumar plays the father role. Ananthnag, Dattanna, Prakash Rai, Sadhu Kokila, Rangayana Raghu, Chikkanna, Avinash, Achyuth Kumar, Chitra Shenoy, Vijayalakshmi Singh, Venkat Rao and others are in the supporting cast.
The songs of V Harikrishna especially Gombe Heluthaithe…and a few have already become very close to the fans. Venkatesh Anguraj gives his expertise to this film in cinematography.
Hombale films Vijay Kiragandur second film with power star and third one in the career is highly expected cinema. KM Prakash editing, Dr Ravi Verma and Vijay Stunts, Harsha and Johny dance direction are main technical additions.
This film ‘Raajakumar’ that is going to brush memories is releasing in over 250 screens on Friday.