Gauri Ganesha

Gauri Ganesha
Film poster
Directed by	Phani Ramachandra
Written by	Malladi Venkata Krishna Murthy
Produced by	Vishwa Sagara
Starring	Anant Nag Shruti Master Anand Vinaya Prasad Mukhyamantri Chandru Ramesh Bhat
Cinematography	R. Manjunath
Edited by	Suresh Urs
Music by	Rajan-Nagendra
Release date	1991 (1991)
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Gauri Ganesha is a 1991 Kannada comedy-drama film directed by Phani Ramachandra. It stars Anant Nag, Vinaya Prasad, Master Anand, Mukhyamantri Chandru, Ramesh Bhat among others. The story is based on Malladi Venkata Krishna Murthy's comedy novel Wedding Bells. The movie was remade in Telugu in 1992 as Golmaal Govindam and in Tamil in 1998 as Kumbakonam Gopalu. Gauri Ganesha movie is regarded as one of the finest comedy film of all time in Kannada cinema. For this movie Anant Nag got Best Actor Filmfare Award for Kannada.

Cast

• Anant Nag as Lambodhara
• Vinaya Prasad as Saraswathi
• Shruti as Gowri
• Mukhyamantri Chandru as Poornanand Rao (Chandramouli's father)
• Ramesh Bhat as Madhusudhan
• Sihi Kahi Chandru as Anand Rao
• Umesh Navale as Chandramouli
• Vaishali Kasaravalli as Vishalakshi (Chandramouli's mother)
• Master Anand as Ganesha
• Ratnakar as Ratnakar
• Bengaluru Nagesh
• Bank Janardhan Landlord
• Shivaprakash
• M. S. Umesh Waiter in Hotel Ashoka
• B.K. Shankar
• Shobha Raghavendra as Gowri's Step Mother
• Maalati
• Kamalashree

Plot

Lambodhara is a petty trickster who cheats and lies to make a false living. One day, he turns himself into an hospital, faking an abdominal issue, solely to get free lodging and food, and also his love interest Saraswathi or Sarasu (Vinaya Prasad). At the hospital Lambodhara comes across a recent patient named Gauri who has died of heart failure. Lambodhara gets a sudden idea and he decides to take her belongings and make some money of them, but instead finds her diary. He realizes that Gauri has come across 3 men who had significant influence in her life. The first man was her former boss who had proposed indecently to sleep with her. The second man wanted her to pretend that they are married to fool his parents in return for money for her heart treatment. The last man is a friend of the 2nd man, and thought that he had slept with her in a drunken state. The truth is that none of the men had any physical contact with her. Lambodhar devises a plan to extract money from these men and their families. He writes letters to the m stating that Gauri has given birth to their son and named him Ganesh. After a series of funny events, (such as the three booking almost neighbouring rooms on the same floor of the same hotel) all the three come to meet Lambodhar on the same day, and the film ends when Lambodhar blackmails them into submission.

Box-office

Gauri Ganesha is one of the highest grossing Kannada films of the year 1991. The movie ran for 100 days at many centres across the Karnataka and it's declared as a blockbuster at the box-office.

Awards

Filmfare Award for Best Actor Kannada (1991) - Anant Nag for "Gauri Ganesha"

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Singer Male (1991) - Puttur Narasimha Nayak for the song "Nimma Maguvu Naguthiruva"

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Dialogue Writer (1991) - Kunigal Nagabhushan for "Gauri Ganesha"

External links

• Gauri Ganesha at IMDb