Sajni (film)


Sajni (also spelled as Sajani or Sajini) (Kannada: ಸಜನಿ) is a 2007 Indian Kannada film directed by Murugesh. The film stars Dhyan, Sharmila Mandre and Anant Nag in lead roles. lead actress Sharmila Mandre makes her Kannada debut through this film.[1] The film is produced by Sonali Nikhil and Sunanda Murali Manohar. The film is the Kannada remake of Tamil film Jodi which was released in 1999. For the first time in Kannada cinema, the film featured a soundtrack composed by A. R. Rahman with all compositions re-used from Rahman's Tamil film Jodi which in turn had re-used the tracks from Rahman's Hindi movie Doli Saja Ke Rakhna. The film released statewide on 23 February 2007.[2][3]

Sajni
Directed byMurugesh
Produced bySonali Nikhil
Screenplay byMurugesh
Story byPraveen Kanth
Based onJodi (Tamil)
StarringSameer Dattani
Sharmila Mandre
Anant Nag
Music byA. R. Rahman (Re-used from the Tamil original which itself was re-used from Hindi)
CinematographyM. M. Rangaswamy
Ian Howes
Edited byV. T. Vijayan
Production
company
Metro Film Corporation Ltd
Release date
  • 23 February 2007 (2007-02-23)
Running time
146 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

Cast

Soundtrack
Sajni
Soundtrack album by
A. R. Rahman
Released25 December 2006
RecordedPanchathan Record Inn and AM Studios
GenreFilm soundtrack
ProducerA. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman chronology
Guru
(2006)		 Sajni
(2006)		 Provoked
(2007)

The official soundtrack contains six songs re-used from A. R. Rahman's Jodi soundtrack, which itself reused some songs of his earlier bollywood film Doli Saja Ke Rakhna.

SongArtist(s)DurationLyrics
"Chandramukhiye" Madhushree, Naresh Iyer, Roop Kumar Rathod 5:27 Kaviraj
"Lovely London" Swetha Mohan 4:22 Belluru Ramamoorthy
"Turu Tunduru" Shreya Ghoshal 3:51 Kaviraj
"Ondu Sulladaru" (Duet) Srinivas, Sujatha 5:57 J. M. Prahlad
"Jaana O Jaana" Vasundara Das, Kailash Kher 4:53 V. Manohar
"Ondu Sulladaru" (Solo) Srinivas 5:57 J. M. Prahlad

Reception

The movie was well received in kannada as the acting skills of the newly introduced leads fell short of the original.

References
  1. http://www.deccanherald.com/CONTENT/Oct32008/metro2008100293270.asp%5B%5D
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 12 March 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/kannada/review/8950.html


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