Nanjundi Kalyana

Nanjundi Kalyana is an 1989 Indian Kannada romantic comedy film directed by M. S. Rajashekar and starring Raghavendra Rajkumar, with Malashri, Girija Lokesh and Sunder Krishna Urs as the lead cast. The film was a major blockbuster of the year and was one among the biggest grossers of 1989.

Plot

This is a family drama movie which starts with Gauri Ganesha festival. During offering pooja to goddess Gauri, Girija Lokesh(mother of Raghuchandra)receives money order as gift of festival from her brother. She is excited at the affection of her brother on sending the gift. Seeing this father of raghuchandra remembers his past of having his sister and brother in law(Sunder Krishna Urs) leaving in his home and on this festival when he gives gift to his sister,the brother in law fights for some reason and lives the home with his wife.The father tells his son(Raghuchandra) these past feelings and says that at childhood he and his sister had thought of marrying Raghavendra Rajkumar(Raghuchandra) with Malashri.

Raghavendra Rajkumar moves to the city to his aunt's home with name of Nanjundi(his uncle who had died 20 years earlier). Sunder krishna urs thinks that he is truly Nanjundi and allows him to live in his home. After Sunder krishna urs left village, they had 2 more daughters Laxmi and Sarswati whom Raghuchandra does not know. Nanjundi(Raghavendra Rajkumar) has to marry eldest of the daughter Devi(Malashri). She is very arrogant and not interested in marriage, because of her the other two sisters marriage who had been engaged to Krishnamurty(Balaraj) and Puttaswamy(chi Ravi shankar) is being continuously postponing.

Even Devi's parents are fed up of convincing her for marriage. Finally, when Nanjundi convinces that he is ready to marry the Devi, her parents says that he should convince her himself. He does propose and performs stunts to convince her,in response she sends fighters to hit him. When all her plans fails, she will be ready to marry him and to let him as her servant after marriage. All three sisters get married on same day without the presence of Nanjundi's(raghuchandra) parents. After marriage he takes to the village where he lives in their house-servant house. He acknowledges her that he is only a servant and not Nanjundi. He had cheated her and her parents. At the end when her parents come to village she will have been left all her old styles and arrogance and she wants to live in that small house with her husband. Finally all of them know the truth that the son in law is none other than Raghuchandra.

Cast

• Raghavendra Rajkumar as Raghuchandra
• Malashri as Devi
• Balaraj
• Lalitanjali
• Chi Ravishankar
• Girija Lokesh
• Sunder Krishna Urs
• Thoogudeepa Srinivas
• Mysore Lokesh
• Dheerendra Gopal

Soundtrack

The songs composed by Upendra Kumar was extremely well received and was among the top chart-buster in the Kannada film industry. The song "Olage Seridare Gundu" rendered by Manjula Gururaj became very popular among the masses. The lyrics were penned by Chi. Udaya Shankar and Bhangi Ranga.

References

External links

• http://www.kannadastore.com/kannada-video-cd-nanjundi-kalyana-1989-video-cd-p-1946.html
• Nanjundi Kalyana songs