Tharle Nan Maga

Tharle Nan Maga is a Kannada film released in 1992. The film marked the debut of Upendra as a director and Jaggesh as a lead actor, the two of them later to be recognised as big stars of Kannada cinema.^[1] It established Jaggesh as one of the biggest comedy stars of Kannada cinema. It also marked the debut of the actress Anjali Sudhakar.

Plot

The story revolves around miser parents (Bank Janardhan and Satyabhama) who want their son (Jaggesh) to marry a rich girl, for dowry. But the son ends up marrying a poor girl, antagonizing his parents. How son changes his parents outlook forms rest of the story. Santosh is the son of Parandamaiah Urbagal (Bank Janardhan) and Subbalakshmi (Satyabhama), who are staunch misers. Parandamaiah owns a shop, called 'Oorubaglu General Stores'. Santosh likes to keep the shop as he loves Sangeetha, daughter of Shankar Shastry, a musician, whose house is opposite Santosh's shop. Santosh spends his time sightseeing (the subject is mostly Sangeetha) and he is hostile towards costumers when he is sightseeing (he calls it 'Dove Hodiyodu', one of his popular dialogues). His friends - 'Chitke' Seena, Raja, 'Razor' Manja, Nanja and 'nanjappan maga' Gunjappa. They help Santosh to gain Sangeetha's affection. However, Parandamaiah and Satyabhama decide to marry Santosh to his uncle's daughter Sundari for dowry. However, Santosh disagrees to marry any girl for dowry as he wants his wife to be the love of his life. Santosh succeeds in marrying Sangeetha by hoodwinking his parents. Later, with the help of his friends, he starts to enjoy his married life. But, Parandamaiah and Satyabhama decide to cheat Santosh and create a feud between Santosh and Sangeetha. They make Sangeetha assume that Santosh is having a sexual relationship with Sundari. Meanwhile, they make Santosh assume Sangeetha is having an extramarital affair. Santosh investigates this and he assumes that Sangeetha is having an affair (the assumed boyfriend was paid by Parandamaiah). Due to this, Sangeetha goes back to her maternal home. Soon Santosh finds out about this, and, with the help of his friends, makes his parents realize that good values are more important than money. Later, after he makes his parents realise their mistake, his uncle finds that Sundari is pregnant. He allegedly accuses Santosh of impregnating Sundari. However, this is not the case as he had told his friends to loaf and flirt with Sundari to enlighten his parents. Later, Santosh arranges for the marriage of Sundari. in the climax, Santosh finds that Gunjappa had impregnated Sundari and he is forced to marry Sundari. Thus the movie ends on a happy note.

Cast

• Jaggesh
• Nithya
• Bank Janardhan
• Satyabhama
• Anjali
• Tennis Krishna

Box Office

The film was a great commercial success and established Upendra as a star director and Jaggesh as one of the biggest comedy stars of Kannada cinema.

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