''Prema Prema Prema'' () is a 1999 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 ...

directed by S. Siddalingaiah and starring Suresh Raj,

Sindhu Menon Sindhu Menon is an Indian former actress, who has starred in Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil films. Early life Sindhu Menon was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India into a Malayali family. She has an elder brother, Karthik, who worked as ...

and Ramya. The film is based on the novel ''Talemaaru'' by Ramdas. After this film, Siddalingaiah took a break from direction and it became his final film as director.

Cast

Production

debuted as a heroine with this film at the age of thirteen. As of December 1998, two songs had been filmed.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

Rajan–Nagendra Rajan–Nagendra was an Indian musical duo who were prominent composers of film music in Kannada and Telugu cinema from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. Rajan, along with his brother Nagendra, created a niche for themselves for nearly four dec ...

and includes two songs written by D. R. Bendre and Su. Rudramurthy Shastry.

Reception

Srikanth of ''

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'' called the film "A clean and wholesome family entertainer!" A critic from ''

The New Indian Express ''The New Indian Express'' is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Chennai-based Express Publications. It was founded in 1932 as ''The Indian Express'', under the ownership of Chennai-based P. Varadarajulu Naidu ...

'' said that "VETERAN director-cum-producer Siddalingaiah has not kept pace with the changing trends. Though Prema is not like other re-makes, it would have been a better film had Siddalingaiah taken a little more care in casting and dialogue".

References

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* {{Siddalingaiah 1990s Kannada-language films 1990s Indian films Indian drama films Films based on Indian novels Films directed by Siddalingaiah Films scored by Rajan–Nagendra