This film should have come 38 years ago itself. It is coming now after 38 years is good in story and artiste performance is delectable. It deserved to be technically good. The attempt of bringing back the yesteryears half completed film today on silver screen is a very good exercise. There is a challenge involved. Artistes who played prominent roles 38 years ago Kalyankumar, Jayashri, Dikki Madhava Rao, Pandari Bai, Vajramuni, Putswamy, Niranjan, technicians Vijayabhasker, Kanagal Prabhakara Shastry, Vijayanarasimha, cameraman DV Rajaram are not living today. In such a scenario this is a challenge well handled by Basave Gowda and team. Without slipping away the adding up now with new artiste and technicians deserves appreciation.
The redeeming feature of this film is the performance of actress Jayanthi and her real life daughter in law Anu Prabhakar. The two shades of performance from Jayanthi are convincing. Anu Prabhakar the talented actress has been very lively. We get to see the portions in black and white in the flash back technique adopted by the directors. It is this flashback portions gives your money back. While sprucing up the directors have forgotten to cut down the length of the film.
One has to climb the thousands steps (Savira Mettilu) to get the 'darshan' of Chamundeswari idol in Chamundeswari hills in Mysore. The difficulty in the life of the protagonist Shanthi (Jayanthi) is also too big. A cantankerous Shanthi in her college days is loved by many. She is in love with Ramesh and destiny has something else in store. Perturbed Shanthi in a very bad condition is saved by her college mate Roopa. In this house she gets the shelter but she is shocked to know that her lover Ramesh is the bridegroom for her friend Roopa who saved her. Ramesh finding Shanthi his ex lover in this house is also equally shocked and he decides to join Shanthi again. Again the things work out very bad Shanthi. She is arrested on a murder charge. She had killed a powerful college friend who pounced on her in the darkness. Shanthi is on life term in jail for accepting that she had committed the murder. The emergence of new jailor opens her file once again. The surprise is still there for the audience when Shanthi narrates her tale. Who has done the murder? That is quite interesting for you.
It is nice to see Kalyankumar, Vajramuni (his debut film), Pandari Bai, Jayashri who are big names in Kannada filmdom in the flashback of the film.
Another beauty of this film is the songs sung by P.Susheela, S.Janaki, LR Ishwari, PB Srinivas and Sangeetha Katti.
This is a film not only for the yesteryears film goers. For the present generation it required pruning and facelift in technical department.
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