''Ravi Mama'' () is a 1999 Indian

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-language

romance drama 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 ...

film directed by

S. Narayan S. Narayan (born 5 June 1962) is an Indian filmmaker, director, actor and lyricist of Kannada films. After Singeetam Srinivasa Rao, Narayan is the second director to direct Dr. Rajkumar and all his three sons. He has given many hits with Dr. Vi ...

and produced by S. K. Raju. The film stars V. Ravichandran and

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. The film is a remake of the

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film ''

En Thangachi Padichava ''En Thangachi Padichava'' () is a 1988 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by P. Vasu. The film stars Prabhu, Rupini and Chithra. It was released on 15 July 1988. The film completed a 100-day run at the box-office. It was remade in T ...

''. The film was released on 19 March 1999 across Karnataka cinema halls and was well received.

Cast

* V. Ravichandran as Ravi * Hema Panchamukhi *

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 ...

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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Thiagarajan Thiagarajan Sivanandam (born 21 June 1946) is an Indian actor, film director and film producer in Tamil cinema. Besides Tamil, he has acted in several Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi films. He is the father of Tamil actor Prashanth, son- ...

M. N. Lakshmi Devi Mysore Narasimhachar Lakshmi Devi, known as M. N. Lakshmi Devi, is a veteran film artist in Kannada films. She is from Chintamani and has had a career of 7 decades. She made her debut in Srinivasa Kalyana (1952) movie and has acted nearly in 1 ...

Production

The climax was picturised at Kanakapura.

Soundtrack

All the songs were composed by Chaitanya and written by

Critical reception

S Shiva Kumar from

The Times of India ''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation an ...

wrote "The performances are good, especially by Hema and Doddanna. Thyagarajan is menacing. Ravichandran and Nagma don't have much emoting to do. It would help if the length is pruned. Ultimately,there is more bevu in Ravimama than bella". Srikanth Srinivasa from

Deccan Herald ''Deccan Herald'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from the Indian state of Karnataka. It was founded by businessman K. N. Guruswamy and launched on 17 June 1948. It is published by The Printers Mysore, a privately hel ...

wrote "S Narayan has failed to get his team to work according to his directions. Seetharam as the cameraman is good in parts. Chaitanya, alias Shastry, shows promise as a budding music director. Otherwise, a complete waste of money and effort!".

References

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* 1999 films 1990s Kannada-language films 1990s Indian films Indian romantic musical films Kannada remakes of Tamil films Films directed by S. Narayan 1990s romantic musical films 1999 musical films {{romantic-musical-film-stub