Partha (film)

Partha is a 2003 Kannada-language romantic-action drama film directed by Om Prakash Rao featuring Sudeep and Hardeep in the lead roles. The film released on 28 November 2003. This film is the unofficial remake of Tamil movie Run (2002), with some changes in the story for the Kannada audience.

Partha
DVD Cover
Directed byOm Prakash Rao
Written byM. S. Ramesh (dialogues)
Screenplay byOm Prakash Rao
Produced byH. R. Rajashekar
Sudha Umesh Kadur
Starring
CinematographyAnaji Nagaraj
Edited byS. Manohar
Music byGurukiran
Release date
  • 28 November 2003 (2003-11-28)
Running time
147 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

Cast
  • Sudeep as Partha
  • Hardeep as Nirmala alias Nimmi
  • B. V. Radha as Parvathi (Partha's mother)
  • Bullet Prakash as Partha's friend
  • Ayyappa P. Sharma as Krishna alias Kitti
  • Shree Ganesh as Partha's niece
  • Ravi Srivastava as Goonda
  • Geetha S Rao as Partha's sister-in-law
  • Dr Vijay
  • Siddartha
  • Sandeep Shetty

Production

The film began production in December 2002 and is the second collaboration of Sudeep and Omprakash Rao after Huchcha. Model Hardeep from Mumbai made her debut with this film. This film's plot was adapted from Tamil movie Run(2002) and also had made some changes in this story for the taste of Kannada audience. The film is based on a true event that happened in Ramanagara.[1] A bullock cart race involving 250 bullock carts was shot in Yenagi.[2]

Release

This film was released on 28 November 2003. This film was a commercial failure

Soundtrack
Partha
Soundtrack album by
Gurukiran
Released
2003
GenreFeature film soundtrack
LanguageKannada
LabelTimes Music
ProducerGurukiran
External audio
audio icon Official Audio Jukebox on YouTube

The film features background score and soundtrack composed by Gurukiran and lyrics by Kaviraj and V. Nagendra Prasad.[3][4][5]

No.Song titleSingersLyrics
1"O Nalle"HariharanKaviraj
2"Sankranthi"Shankar Mahadevan, Malgudi SubhaV. Nagendra Prasad
3"Ee Preethi"Rajesh KrishnanKaviraj
4"Pyar De"Mano, Shamitha Malnad, GurukiranKaviraj
5"Sona Sona"Gurukiran, Lakshmi NatarajKaviraj

Reception

A critic from indiainfo wrote that "The drawbacks of this film is that at points the film has been stretched unnecessarily, otherwise this film is a okay one and is good to watch once".[6] A writer from Filmibeat called the film "a bore".[7]

References
  1. "New Film this week - Partha of Sudeep and Dreams of Ruthika".
  2. "Partha - a new film by Sudeep".
  3. "Paartha 2003 Kannada Movie". Video Audio Sargam. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
  4. Chakre, Sushma. "'ಸೋನು ನಿಗಂ ಹಾಡಿಗೆ ಕತ್ತರಿ ಹಾಕಿಸಿದ್ದೆ'; ಹುಚ್ಚ ಸಿನಿಮಾದ 'ಉಸಿರೆ ಉಸಿರೆ' ಹಾಡಿನ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಅಚ್ಚರಿ ಸಂಗತಿ ಬಿಚ್ಚಿಟ್ಟ ಸುದೀಪ್". TV9 Kannada (in Kannada).
  5. "ರಾಜೇಶ್ ಕೃಷ್ಣನ್ ಟಾಪ್10 ಮೆಲೋಡಿಯಸ್ ಸೋಲೋ ಗೀತೆಗಳು". Filmibeat (in Kannada). Archived from the original on 27 April 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  6. "Partha". Indiainfo. Archived from the original on 9 December 2003.
  7. "ಕನ್ನಡ ಚಿತ್ರರಂಗ-2003 : ಹಳಬರು ಸುಣ್ಣ, ಹೊಸಬರಿಗೆ ಬಣ್ಣ". Filmibeat (in Kannada). 2 May 2003.


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