Apthamitra

Apthamitra

Directed by	P. Vasu
Produced by	Dwarakesh
Starring	Dr.Vishnuvardhan, Ramesh Aravind, Soundarya Prema Dwarakesh
Music by	Gurukiran
Release date(s)	2004
Language	Kannada

Apthamitra (translation: Close friend ) is a 2004 Kannada movie starring Dr.Vishnuvardhan,Ramesh Arvind, Soundarya and Dwarakish. This was actress Soundarya's last film. The storyline of this movie was inspired by the Malayalam movie "Manichithrathazhu" and was later remade in Tamil as Chandramukhi starring Rajinikanth. It was a box-office hit and ran successfully for a year.

[edit] Box-Office performance

The film collected Rs.12 crores,which was an all-time record for Kannada films at that time.^[1]

The film, won 4 Filmfare Awards. ^[2]

KANNADA

Best Film: Apthamitra

Best Actor: Vishnuvardhan - Apthamitra

Best Actress: Soundarya - Apthamitra

Best Director: P. Vasu - Apthamitra

Best Music Director: Gurukiran - Apthamitra

Manichitrathazhu (Malayalam)	Aaptamitra (Kannada)	Chandramukhi (Tamil)	Bhool Bhulaiya (Hindi)	Rajmohol (Bengali)
Dr. Sunny Joseph (Mohanlal)	Dr. Vijay (Vishnuvardhan)	Dr. Saravanan (Rajnikanth)	Dr. Aditya Shrivastav (Akshay Kumar)	Dr. Raghu (Prasenjit Chatterjee)
Nakulan (Suresh Gopi)	Ramesh (Ramesh Aravind)	Senthilnathan (Prabhu Ganesan)	Siddharth Chaturvedi (Shiney Ahuja)
Ganga (Shobana)	Ganga (Soundarya)	Ganga (Jyothika)	Avni (Vidya Balan)
Sreedevi (Vinaya Prasad)	Soumya (Prema)	Durga (Nayantara)	Radha (Amisha Patel)
Thampy (Nedumudi Venu)	(Satyajit)	Kandaswamy (Nassar)	Badrinarayan Chaturvedi (Manoj Joshi)
Unnithan (Innocent)	Mukunda (Dwarakesh)	Murugesan (Vadivelu)	Batukshankar Upadhyay (Paresh Rawal)

v • d • e Films inspired by Manichitrathazhu

Apthamitra (Kannada) • Bhool Bhulaiyaa (Hindi) • Chandramukhi (Tamil) • Manichitrathazhu (Malayalam) •

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