''Manmatha'' is a 2007 Indian
Kannada
Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...
-language
comedy drama film
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directed by N.Rajesh Fernandes. starring
Jaggesh
Jaggesh is an Indian politician, actor, director and producer, who mainly works in the Kannada film industry. He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 2022 and the spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnat ...
and
Gurleen Chopra in a
dual role
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.
The film is a
remake
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of
Malayalam film
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''
Kunjikoonan'' (2002) starring
Dileep
Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan Pillai, better known by his stage name Dileep, is an Indian actor, producer, and businessman who predominantly works in the Malayalam film industry. He has acted in more than 150 films and has won several awards, in ...
and
Navya Nair
Navya Nair is an Indian actress who has appeared predominantly in Malayalam films, along with others in Kannada
Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of ...
.
Synopsis
Putswamy is an ugly village youth who covers up his handicap with humor. Despite jibes directed at him, he looks for a bride with the help of his friend.
Soorya is a violent college student who loves his classmate, Priya. She comes across Chinna, who assures her that he will get her married to the man of her heart. She is killed in a fracas involving a gangster. Meanwhile, the hunchback Putswamy comes across an orphaned poor blind girl, Lakshmi. He wins her heart by helping to transplant the eyes of the deceased Priya to Lakshmi, who regains her vision. This results in a fight between Putswamy and Soorya as to whom Lakshmi belongs. Putswamy is a hunchback, so he decides to leave way for Soorya. But fate has something else in store for him.
Cast
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Jaggesh
Jaggesh is an Indian politician, actor, director and producer, who mainly works in the Kannada film industry. He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 2022 and the spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnat ...
in
dual role
A dual role (also known as a double role) refers to one actor playing two roles in a single production. Dual roles (or a larger number of roles for an actor) may be deliberately written into a script, or may instead be a choice made during produc ...
as Puttaswamy and Soorya
*
Gurleen Chopra in
dual role
A dual role (also known as a double role) refers to one actor playing two roles in a single production. Dual roles (or a larger number of roles for an actor) may be deliberately written into a script, or may instead be a choice made during produc ...
as Priya and Lakshmi
*
Komal Kumar
Komal Kumar (born 4 July 1973), known mononymously as Komal, is an Indian actor and film producer known for his work in Kannada cinema. He made his acting debut with ''Super Nan Maga'' in 1992. Since his debut, Komal has acted in over 100 films, ...
*
Umesh Umesh is an Indian given name.
People
* M. S. Umesh, actor
* Umesh Chandra Banerjee, jurist
* Umesh Chandra Dutta, social reformer
* Umesh Chandra Patra, zoologist
* Umesh Harijan, footballer
* Umesh Kamat, actor
* Umesh Kulkarni (cricketer), ...
* Killer Venkatesh
* Janardhan
* Chetan Rai
*
Biradar
Vaijanath Basappa Biradar is an Indian comedian and actor who works in Kannada cinema. He has acted nearly 500 movies in Kannada.
He was awarded the top one best actor in the 2011 India Imagine film festival that took place in Madrid, Spain f ...
* Ratnakar
* Arasikere Raju
*
Pooja Gandhi
Pooja Gandhi (born Sanjana Gandhi in 1983) is an Indian actress, who mainly works in Kannada, Hindi and Tamil films. Pooja Gandhi after starring in the commercially successful 2006 film ''Mungaru Male'', became one of the most popular and high ...
as herself in the song "Hunnime Banna"
Soundtrack
References
External links
Manmatha Movie Review
2007 romantic comedy films
2007 films
2000s Kannada-language films
Kannada remakes of Malayalam films
Indian romantic comedy films
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