''Alimayya'' is a 1993 Indian
Kannada
Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...
-language
romantic drama film
Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their ...
written by
Manivannan
Manivannan (31 July 1953 – 15 June 2013) was an Indian actor, film director, screenwriter, voice artist, playback singer and social activist who worked in Tamil cinema. In a career spanning three decades, he went from being a story and ...
and directed by
Kishore Sarja
Kishore Sarja (died 27 June 2009) was an Indian film director who worked in Kannada-language films.
Career
Kishore Sarja started his career as an assistant director before making his directorial debut with '' Alimayya'' (1993) starring his b ...
in his directorial debut. The film starred
Arjun Sarja
Srinivasa Sarja (born 15 August 1962), better known by his stage name Action King Arjun, is an Indian actor, producer, and director who works predominantly in Tamil cinema. He has mainly acted in Tamil cinema, Tamil films in addition to Telugu ...
and
Shruti. The film is a remake of 1987 Tamil film ''
Kalyana Kacheri'' which was also an Arjun Sarja starrer. The film had a musical score by
M. M. Keeravani and was produced by N. Kumar.
Cast
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Arjun Sarja
Srinivasa Sarja (born 15 August 1962), better known by his stage name Action King Arjun, is an Indian actor, producer, and director who works predominantly in Tamil cinema. He has mainly acted in Tamil cinema, Tamil films in addition to Telugu ...
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Shruti
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Lokesh
Lokesh (; 19 May 1947 – 14 October 2004) was an Indian actor who appeared in Kannada cinema.
Lokesh made his film debut in the 1958 film '' Bhakta Prahlada''. He had thrice won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor during his care ...
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Silk Smitha
Vadlapati Vijayalakshmi (2 December 1960 – 23 September 1996), better known by her stage name Silk Smitha, was an Indian actress and dancer who worked mainly in Tamil (over 200 films)and Telugu (over 100 films) cinema, in addition to some K ...
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Kovai Sarala
Kovai Sarala is an Indian actress and comedian, who plays supporting roles in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. She has won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Comedian three times, for her performances in '' Sathi Leelavathi ...
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Tennis Krishna
Tennis Krishna is a Kannada actor and comedian. He has acted in over 600 movies and has a record of appearing in 100 movies with comedy actress Rekha Das.
Life
His background is from Kannada theatre. Since Krishna was a common name in the fil ...
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Doddanna
Doddanna is an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry who has acted in about 800 films. He started his career as a theatre actor. During this time, he entered the Kannada film industry as a character actor.
Early life
The youngest son in t ...
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Rajanand
Venkataraju known by his professional name Rajanand (1927-2004), was an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry. Some of the notable films of Rajanand as an actor include ''Operation Diamond Racket'' (1978), '' Mayura'' (1975), and '' Eradu Kan ...
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Sarigama Viji
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Girija Lokesh
Girija Lokesh is an Indian theatre and film actress and occasional film producer who works in Kannada cinema. She is wife of actor Lokesh, and is the mother of actor and television presenter Srujan Lokesh and Pooja Lokesh. In recognition of h ...
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M. S. Umesh
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Gundu Kalyanam
Lakshmi Narayanan better knows as Gundu Kalyanam is an Indian actor and director in Tamil cinema, Tamil film industry and active and hardcore member at All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, AIADMK party. He entered cine field in the year ...
Soundtrack
All the songs are composed and scored by
M. M. Keeravani with the lyrics by Doddarangegowda and Sriranga.
References
1993 films
1993 romantic drama films
1990s Kannada-language films
1990s Indian films
Films directed by Kishore Sarja
Films scored by M. M. Keeravani
Indian romantic drama films
Kannada remakes of Tamil films
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