''Ranganna'' is a 1997 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 action film Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey through da ...

written and directed by H. Vasu. The film stars

Jaggesh Eshwar Gowda (born 17 March 1963), known professionally as Jaggesh, is an Indian politician, film actor, director and producer, who mainly works in Kannada cinema. Known for his roles in comedy films, he is popular by the moniker Navarasa Naya ...

as an auto driver, Ranga, who tries to mend the broken relationship of his uncle with the help of Roopa by reuniting him with his stubborn wife who happens to be Roopa's mother. Vijayalakshmi plays Ranga's love interest, Roopa. Srinath, Kavitha,

Dheerendra Gopal Gopal Rao, known by his stage name Dheerendra Gopal, was an Indian film and stage actor known for his work in Kannada films. After making his film debut with ''Subhadra Kalyana'' (1972), he received recognition for his performance in Puttanna ...

and

Loknath C. H. Loknath (14 August 1927 – 31 December 2018) was an Indian actor who made more than 1000 Kannada plays and 650 films. Loknath is affectionately known as "Uncle Loknath" or "Uppinakayi" in the industry. His last performance was in a Sta ...

essayed other important roles.

Rajesh Ramanath Rajesh Ramanath is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer. He has scored music for Kannada films. Career Rajesh Ramanath debuted as a music composer in 1995 for the film ''Shubha Lagna'' and has composed for over several commercial and ...

composed the soundtrack whileJ. G. Krishna handled the cinematography. The film marks the first collaboration of director H. Vasu with music director Rajesh Ramanath and second collaboration with Jaggesh and producer Sa Ra Govindaraju after Bhanda Alla Bahaddur which was released in the same year. The film received a U certificate from the CBFC without any cuts on 7 October 1997. Sri Ganesh Videos acquired the video rights and released and marketed the film in VCD and DVD formats.

Cast

Production

Despite media reports that

and Vijayalakshmi, then aged 18-20, broke out into a fight at that time, Vijayalakshmi denied the reports in 2024.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album comprises 5 songs composed by

. The audio rights of the film was sold to Lahari Music. # "Auto Auto" — sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam ; lyrics by S. R. Shastry # "Bandlu Bandlu" — sung by

Rajesh Krishnan Rajesh Krishnan is an Indian playback singer and actor. Although he is known for his works in Kannada films, he has sung in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard l ...

and Soumya ; lyrics by Shyamsundar Kulkarni # "Baaro Baaro" — sung by Rajesh Krishnan and

K. S. Chithra Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra (born 27 July 1963) is an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician. In a career spanning around five decades, she has recorded over 25,000 Songs in various Indian languages languages such as Tamil, Kann ...

; lyrics by

Doddarangegowda Doddarangegowda (born 7 February 1946) is an Indian poet and lyricist working in Kannada cinema. He is a retired professor of Kannada and has published a number of anthologies in Kannada. He has released several audio cassettes and CDs of his po ...

# "Mangoli Mangol" — sung by Rajesh Krishnan and Soumya ; lyrics by K. Kalyan # "Aajare Aaja" — sung by Rajesh Krishnan and K. S. Chithra ; lyrics by Sri Ranga

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