Maurya (film)
Maurya is a 2004 Kannada language sports drama film directed by S. Narayan. The film starred Puneeth Rajkumar and Meera Jasmine in lead roles. It was Meera Jasmine's first Kannada film. The film is a remake of 2003 Telugu film Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi. This film is produced by Rockline Venkatesh.
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| Directed by | S. Narayan |
| Produced by | Rockline Venkatesh |
| Written by | Puri Jagannadh |
| Based on | Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi by Puri Jagannadh |
| Starring | Puneeth Rajkumar Meera Jasmine |
| Music by | Gurukiran |
| Cinematography | P. K. H. Das |
| Edited by | P. R. Sounder Raj |
| Distributed by | Rockline Productions |
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Running time | 162 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Kannada |
Plot
Manu's entire life is about his mother, Meena, a college lecturer. They together live in Banglore. When Chandu was a little boy, Lakshmi separated from her husband, Prathap, who is his father. Manu is a passionate and great kick-boxer. Manu later meets Alamelu Meera Jasmine aka Andra, a Telugu girl from Andhra and starts to fall in love with her. Manu's happy life is suddenly jolted when his mother dies of a heart attack. On her deathbed, she tells him to go and meet Prathap, who is a kickboxing champion that won the championship six times in a row. Manu goes to Prathap.
When Manu meets his father but sees that he has another wife and a daughter named. He sees that he's happily settled with them and gets angry. He also gets a job as a janitor and juice provider at his father's kickboxing academy. Anand is Prathap's best student and he is sure that Anand will win the championship. Later, Manu finds out that Anand makes his step sister pregnant and then abandons her. Anand also abandons Prathap by getting another master and other sponsors. Prathap is attacked by several of Anand's sponsors and Manu later beats them up, making Prathap find out that Manu is a great kick-boxer. Prathap also finds out that Manu was also participating in the kick-boxing championship. The rest of the story is how Prathap trains Manu and wins the championship.
Cast
- Puneeth Rajkumar as Manu
- Meera Jasmine as Alamelu
- Roja as Meena
- Devaraj as Prathap
- Rekha Kumar
- Komal
- Doddanna
- Mandya Jayaram
- Shobaraj
- Jaidev as Anand
- Maithreyi Karthik
- Vijaya Sarathi
- Sundar Raj
- Ashok
- Jayalakshmi
- Kote Prabhakar
- Mukyamanthri chandru
- Yathi raj
- Aiyappa M.M
- V. K. Mohan
- Bank suresh
- Bhanu Prakash
- Sridhar Raj
- Venkatesh Prasad
Soundtrack
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| Released | 15 June 2007 | ||||
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The music of the film was composed by Gurukiran.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Amma Amma I Love You" | S. Narayan | Shaan | 4:14 |
| 2. | "Haadali Karunaadali" | V. Manohar | Udit Narayan, Lakshmi Nataraj | 4:04 |
| 3. | "Machchalli Kochodalli" | Upendra | Puneeth Rajkumar | 4:29 |
| 4. | "Pilla Pilla" | S. Narayan | Udit Narayan, K. S. Chitra | 3:49 |
| 5. | "Simplallagi Helteen Kele" | S. Narayan | Puneeth Rajkumar | 3:57 |
| 6. | "Usiraguve Hasiraguve" | K. Kalyan | Srinivas, Shreya Ghoshal | 4:22 |
Box office
- The film successfully ran for 100 days in 16 centers of Karnataka and was 4th continuous 100 days for Power Star.