'''Shravana Banthu'''


1984 158’ col Kannada
d/st/co-sc Singeetham Srinivasa Rao
pc Chandrakala Art Ents. p Ekamreshwararao
co-sc/dial/lyr Chi. Udayashankar c S.V. Srikanth
m M. Rangarao
lp Rajkumar, Srinath, Urvashi, Vishwanath,
Uma Shivakumar, Leelavathi, K.S. Aswath,
Thoogudeepa Srinivas, Shivaram, Umesh


Reincarnation plot with a dubiously ‘secular’
message. The singer Kumar (Rajkumar), on a
pilgrimage to a temple he saw in his dreams,
meets the spirit of his friend Vishwa (Srinath),
unrequited from an earlier birth. The friend
recalls their previous lives in which they had
been in love with the same woman (Urvashi).
She loved Kumar and Vishwa had ordered his
men to kill his rival, unaware that this was his
friend Kumar. Realising his mistake, he
committed suicide and his spirit was
condemned to wander until redemption had
been achieved. The woman from their earlier
life, now reborn as Mary, a Christian, is courted
by Kumar with the assistance of the spirit. The
two eventually marry after overcoming the
resistance of Kumar’s caste-conscious father.
This segment involves a comic turn when
Kumar pretends to have lost his memory and
become ‘Peter from Petersburg’.

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