Ramleela (2015 Kannada film)
Ram-Leela is a 2015 Indian Kannada-language action comedy film directed by Vijay Kiran and produced by Soundarya Jagadish. The film stars Chiranjeevi Sarja and Amulya, pairing up for the first time, in the lead roles.[1] The film is a remake of Telugu film, Loukyam starring Gopichand and Rakul Preet Singh.[2]
Ramleela | |
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Directed by | Vijay Kiran |
Produced by | Soundarya Jagadish |
Screenplay by | Vijay Kiran |
Story by | Sreedhar Seepana |
Based on | Loukyam by Sreedhar Seepana |
Starring | Chiranjeevi Sarja Amulya |
Music by | Anup Rubens |
Cinematography | Bharani K. Dharan |
Production company | Soundarya Jagadish Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 140 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Kannada |
The principal photography of the film commenced from 2 April 2015. Actor Darshan released the trailer of the film in early October 2015.[3] The film released on 12 November 2015.[4] The introduction of the character Boiling Star Bablu spoofs the hero introduction scene of Mr. and Mrs. Ramachari and the same character spoofs the interval fight sequence of Veera Madakari in the climax of the film. The theatrical poster of the 1975 movie Thrimurthy was used in the film to show an edited photo of Ram, his father, and grandfather. The comedy sequences of heroine cheating boys in cafe shop in the name of love was copied from the 2013 movie Balupu.
Cast
- Chiranjeevi Sarja as Ram
- Amulya as Chandrakala/Chandu
- Sanjjanaa Galrani
- Urvashi as Baby
- Sadhu Kokila as Taxi Driver Sippy alias Siphone Sridhar
- Rangayana Raghu as Mekedaatu Paapanna
- Chikkanna
- Ravishankar Gowda as Boiling Star Bablu
- Ravi Kale as Ugrappa
- Shobharaj as Don Annaji
- Master Snehith
- Kuri Prathap
- Taranga Vishwa
- Mohan Juneja
- Vijay Koundinya
- Kaddipudi Chandru
- P. N. Sathya
- Victory Vasu
- Tennis Krishna
- Tulasi Shivamani
Production
Producer Soundarya Jagadish obtained the remake rights of the Telugu film Loukyam and chose a debutant director Vijay Kiran to direct the film giving a large amount of native touch to the remake. Vijay Kiran wrote the screenplay as well for the film and roped in actress Amulya and music director Anup Rubens to the team. The team went to Georgia to shoot the song sequences making it the first Kannada film to shoot in those locations.[5][6] Actress Sanjjanaa was roped in to play a special guest character role.[7]
Soundtrack
Ramleela | ||||
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Released | 2015 | |||
Recorded | 2015 | |||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Length | 16:53 | |||
Label | Anand Audio Video | |||
Producer | Anup Rubens | |||
Anup Rubens chronology | ||||
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The film's soundtrack and original score is composed by Anup Rubens who also composed the original Telugu version. A total of 5 songs have been composed out of which two are taken from the original version and the rest are created by the composer. Actor Puneeth Rajkumar recorded his voice for a song which was launched by actor Dhruva Sarja.[8] A unique idea of launching each song making it a total of six audio launches has been planned for the film's soundtrack. Reportedly, there would be five different audio launches for the five tracks and a final launch officially for all the tracks.[9]
The second track was officially launched at actor Upendra's residence. The song featuring Sanjjanaa was released by Upendra and Priyanka Upendra on Sanjjanaa's birthday.[10] A week later, the third song was released by actor Shiva Rajkumar.[11]
No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Oh Vayyari" | D. C. Sudarshan | Puneeth Rajkumar | 3:22 |
2. | "O Amulya Amulya" | K. Kalyan | Vijay Prakash, Apoorva Sridhar, Santhosh Venky | 3:39 |
3. | "Neenu Banda Mele" | Kaviraj | Sonu Nigam, Shravani | 3:55 |
4. | "Arey Sunny Leone" | D. C. Sudarshan | Ranina Reddy, Anup Rubens | 3:53 |
5. | "RamLeela title" | D. C. Sudarshan | Chorus | 2:04 |
Total length: | 16:53 |
References
- "Amulya, Chiru to be Sandalwood's Ramleela". The Times of India. 17 May 2015.
- "Chiru's latest is Ramleela". The New Indian Express. 24 March 2015.
- "Darshan releases Ramleela trailer". Chitraloka. 4 October 2015.
- "Ramleela Censored U - Releases on 12th". Chitraloka. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
- "Ramleela song sequences to be shot in Georgia". YTalkies. 19 June 2015.
- "What is Chiranjeevi doing in Georgia?". Times of India. 17 June 2015.
- "Sanjjana roped in for Ramleela". YTalkies. 7 April 2015.
- "After Darshan, It Is Puneeth in Ramleela". Chitraloka. 8 October 2015.
- "Six audio launches for Ramleela". Bangalore Mirror. 7 October 2015.
- "Ramleela Second Song Released". Chitraloka. 14 October 2015.
- "Shivanna Releases Third Song of Ramleela". Chitraloka. 19 October 2015.