| 1 | '''Shravana Banthu''' |
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| 4 | 1984 158’ col Kannada |
| 5 | d/st/co-sc Singeetham Srinivasa Rao |
| 6 | pc Chandrakala Art Ents. p Ekamreshwararao |
| 7 | co-sc/dial/lyr Chi. Udayashankar c S.V. Srikanth |
| 8 | m M. Rangarao |
| 9 | lp Rajkumar, Srinath, Urvashi, Vishwanath, |
| 10 | Uma Shivakumar, Leelavathi, K.S. Aswath, |
| 11 | Thoogudeepa Srinivas, Shivaram, Umesh |
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| 13 | |
| 14 | Reincarnation plot with a dubiously ‘secular’ |
| 15 | message. The singer Kumar (Rajkumar), on a |
| 16 | pilgrimage to a temple he saw in his dreams, |
| 17 | meets the spirit of his friend Vishwa (Srinath), |
| 18 | unrequited from an earlier birth. The friend |
| 19 | recalls their previous lives in which they had |
| 20 | been in love with the same woman (Urvashi). |
| 21 | She loved Kumar and Vishwa had ordered his |
| 22 | men to kill his rival, unaware that this was his |
| 23 | friend Kumar. Realising his mistake, he |
| 24 | committed suicide and his spirit was |
| 25 | condemned to wander until redemption had |
| 26 | been achieved. The woman from their earlier |
| 27 | life, now reborn as Mary, a Christian, is courted |
| 28 | by Kumar with the assistance of the spirit. The |
| 29 | two eventually marry after overcoming the |
| 30 | resistance of Kumar’s caste-conscious father. |
| 31 | This segment involves a comic turn when |
| 32 | Kumar pretends to have lost his memory and |
| 33 | become ‘Peter from Petersburg’. |
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| 35 | [[Film]] |