''Deepavali'' is a 2000 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

comedy drama film Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together.

starring Vishnuvardhan,

Ramesh Aravind Ramesh Aravind (born 10 September 1964), known mononymously as Ramesh, is an Indian actor, director, screenwriter and television presenter. Ramesh has predominantly worked in Kannada and Tamil films along with a few Telugu and Hindi films. He ...

, Chandini and

Bhavana ''Bhāvanā'' (Pali;Rhys Davids & Stede (1921–25), p. 503, entry for "Bhāvanā," retrieved 9 December 2008 from "U. Chicago" a Sanskrit: भावना, also ''bhāvanā''Monier-Williams (1899), p. 755, see "Bhāvana" and "Bhāvanā", retri ...

. The film is directed and written by

Dinesh Babu Dinesh Baboo (also known as Dinesh Babu) is an Indian film director, cinematographer, actor and screenwriter who works predominantly in Kannada cinema. In a career spanning five decades he has directed more than 40 films, filmed more than 20 fil ...

. The film became a box-office failure.

Cast

Production

The film was originally launched under the title ''Mela'' with Mahesh Sukhadare, director of ''Sambrama'' being the director. It was launched at Kanteerava studios.

Soundtrack

All the songs are composed and scored by M. M. Keeravani.

Reception

A critic from ''indiainfo.com'' wrote that "The film is certainly worth a ''dekho'' (watch) for those on the look out for clean entertainment". ''go4i'' wrote "It's a neat and clean film without any vulgarity, senseless action and violence. The film has comedy too. .The first and the second half of the film are balanced, a rare quality these days."

References

External links

* 2000 films 2000s Kannada-language films Films scored by M. M. Keeravani Indian comedy-drama films Films directed by Dinesh Baboo {{2000s-Kannada-film-stub