Parva (2002 film)

This is one of the rare movies in Kannada cinema history. The movie starts with a song and also ends with a song and dance. This is probably the first time in Kannada cinema where the director uses a song to complete the climax for the movie.

Sagar (Vishnuvardhan) is a good singer and dancer. He starts searching for Suma (Prema) in a huge crowd. When the crowd starts wondering why is he looking for her commences the first flashback, which is one among the seven or so flashbacks in the movie.

Sagar is a nice guy who has taken up drinking due to failure in his love life. Suma lands at Sagar's place to learn bharathanatyam from his father, who is an expert. She tries to find out why Sagar has stopped singing. This leads to another flashback where Sagar explains as to how he was ditched by Sudha (Roja) and also narrates how he lost his mother. This forced him to stop singing and take up drinking. Sagar finally takes up singing after much persuasion from Prema and returns to the singing family. He also agrees to give a comeback show, but insists on Suma's presence in that show. Suma never turns up for the show. Here begins the search for her. He sets a deadline through a TV performance to Suma.

Suma turns up to Sagar's place and this leads to another flashback where she narrates as to why she couldn't attend the performance a year back. Bhattacharya is a very good singer. He and Suma's father (Dattatreya) have an argument because Bhattacharya's father insisted on his daughter winning the competition and forces him to go for a particular raga. This irritates Suma's father and he leaves the huge hall in a rage. He meets with an accident and dies. Bhattacharya insists on Suma not attending Sagar's performance as that will harm the growth of his daughter's image and that's the reason Suma doesn't turn up to Sagar's show (all this was a flashback). The rest of the movie is about the clash between Sagar and Bhattacharya. This leads to the climax song which is of 11–13 minutes duration and how he defeats Bhattacharya in a competition.[5]

• Vishnuvardhan as Sagar
• Prema as Suma
• Roja as Sudha
• Keremane Shambhu Hegde
• Radharavi
• Bhavana
• Naveen Mayur
• Kashi
• H. G. Dattatreya
• Ramesh Bhat
• Mandeep Roy
• Arun Sagar
• Aparna Vaidyanathan
• Kishori Ballal
• Renukamma Murugod
• Baby Amulya
• Sparsha Rekha

The music of the film was composed and the lyrics written by Hamsalekha.[6] It was earlier rumored that singer Lata Mangeshkar would sing a song in the film. However, it turned out to be a mere gossip.[7]

• Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actor - Keremane Shambhu Hegde[8]

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