''Sweety Nanna Jodi'' is a 2013 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 ...
romance film
Romance films or movies 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 ...
directed by
Vijayalakshmi Singh
Vijayalakshmi Singh is an Indian actress, director, costume designer and producer in Kannada. She has acted in more than 50 Kannada films and is actively involved in television projects.
Early life
Vijayalakshmi was born in Mysore to film pe ...
and produced by Radhika herself under her home banner Shamika Enterprises. The film stars
Auditya
Aditya is an Indian film producer and actor, primarily appearing in Kannada films. He made his acting debut in 2004, starring in ''Love'' and went on to appear in several commercially successful films. He is the son of Kannada director Rajend ...
and
Radhika
Radha ( sa, राधा, ), also called Radhika, is a Hindu goddess and the chief consort of the god Krishna. She is worshiped as the goddess of love, tenderness, compassion, and devotion. She is the avatar of goddess Lakshmi and is also de ...
in the lead roles. It marks Radhika's comeback to films after a 5-year hiatus.
Plot
This film is about a corporate love between the main characters.
Cast
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Auditya
Aditya is an Indian film producer and actor, primarily appearing in Kannada films. He made his acting debut in 2004, starring in ''Love'' and went on to appear in several commercially successful films. He is the son of Kannada director Rajend ...
as Siddharth
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Radhika
Radha ( sa, राधा, ), also called Radhika, is a Hindu goddess and the chief consort of the god Krishna. She is worshiped as the goddess of love, tenderness, compassion, and devotion. She is the avatar of goddess Lakshmi and is also de ...
as Priya
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Ramya Krishna
Ramya Krishnan (born 15 September 1970), also credited as Ramya Krishna (in the Telugu and Kannada film industries) is an Indian actress. She has appeared in over 260 films in five languages: Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi. Ram ...
as Vasundhara Devi
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Girish Karnad
Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in South Indian cinema and Bollywood. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the ...
as Priya's father
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Jai Jagadish
Jai Jagadish (born 29 June 1954) is an Indian actor, director and producer in the Kannada film industry. Starting his career as an actor in ''Phalitamsha'' (1976), he went on to feature in over 300 films as an actor. In 1998, he turned producer ...
as Siddharth's father
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Sadhu Kokila
Sahaya Sheelan Shadrach (born 24 March 1966) known by his screen name Sadhu Kokila, is an Indian musician, actor, comedian, film director and producer, and an occasional screenwriter and lyricist who works in Kannada cinema. He began his care ...
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Jayadev Mohan
Jayadev Mohan, is an Indian actor and director who appears in Kannada and Tamil language films.
Career
Jayadev Mohan began his acting career with drama ''Agni mattu male'', a short play by Girish Karnad. He started his film career with the fi ...
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Rekha Das
Rekha Das is an Indian actress in the Kannada film industry. Some of the notable films of Rekha Das as an actress include '' Shwethaagni'' (1991), '' Shanthi Kranthi'' (1991), and '' Hoovu Hannu'' (1993).
Personal life
She was married to Kan ...
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Tabla Nani
Tabla Nani is an Indian theatre and film actor who works primarily in Kannada cinema. He began his career as a supporting actor in the 2006 Kannada film '' Mata''. His role in the 2009 film ''Eddelu Manjunatha'' won him critical praise.
Career ...
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Saurav Lokesh
Production
The title of the film is based on a song from ''
Bharjari Bete
''Bharjari Bete'' is a 1981 Indian Kannada-language Western action film directed by Rajendra Singh Babu, starring Ambarish, Jayamala and Shankar Nag. The supporting cast features Dinesh, Tiger Prabhakar and Vajramuni.
Cast
* Ambarish
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'' (1981). A song was shot in Kashmir.
Soundtrack
The music of the film is composed by
Arjun Janya
Arjun Janya (born Lokesh Kumar) is an Indian film score soundtrack composer and singer. Arjun made his film debut in the 2006 Kannada film ''Autograph Please''. Since then he has composed and scored music for successful films such as ''Birugaa ...
.
Release
Critical reception
A critic from ''
The Times of India
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'' wrote that "Aditya excels in emotional sequences but it is Ramya Krishna who steals the show with her brilliant performance". Shashiprasad S. M. of ''
Deccan Chronicle
''Deccan Chronicle'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded by Rajagopal Mudaliar in the 1930s & currently owned by Samagrah Commercial Pvt Limited. It is published in Hyderabad, Telangana, by Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited (D ...
'' wrote that "Apart from 'Sweety Nanna Jodi' being an attempt to relaunch the actress in the lead, the film itself has nothing new to offer".
References
External links
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2013 films
2010s Kannada-language films
Indian romance films
2013 romance films
Films scored by Arjun Janya
Films directed by Vijayalakshmi Singh