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Mungaru Male is a film of genre Drama directed by Yogaraj Bhat with Pooja Gandhi

Mungaru Male (2006)

Mungaru Male
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Length 2h18
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Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Musical,    Romance
Rating83% 4.1939654.1939654.1939654.1939654.193965

Mungaru Male (Kannada: ಮುಂಗಾರು ಮಳೆ, translation: Pre-monsoon Showers) is a 2006 Indian Kannada musical romance film co-written and directed by Yogaraj Bhat, and produced by E. Krishnappa. It stars Ganesh, Pooja Gandhi, Anant Nag, Padmaja Rao in lead roles. The film is believed to have shaped and strengthened the careers of Gandhi, Ganesh, director Bhat, playback singers Sonu Nigam, Kunal Ganjawala, Udit Narayan and Shreya Ghoshal in South India and lyricist Jayant Kaikini, choreographers A. Harsha, Imran Sardaria, composer Mano Murthy and others.

The film was the first in India for any language to be screened for continuously one year in a multiplex. Overall it ran over 500 days in Karnataka. It was remade in Telugu as Vaana and in Bengali as Premer Kahini in 2008. A Hindi language version is underway.

A sequel to the film titled Mungaru Male 2 was announced in July 2014 and filming began in July 2015. Shashank is directing the film with Ganesh returning to the franchise, while music composer Arjun Janya is scoring music.

Synopsis

The protagonist Preetam (Ganesh), on a visit to Eva Mall in Bangalore amidst a heavy wind, spots a pretty girl, Nandini (Pooja Gandhi). While staring at her, he inadvertently falls into a manhole. Nandini rescues him from the pit, but in the process loses her heart-shaped watch she had just bought.

Actors

Pooja Gandhi

(Nandini)Ganesh

(Preetham)Anant Nag

(Major Subbaiah)Diganth Manchale

(Gautam)Jai Jagadish

(Preetam's father)Sanchita Shetty

(Nandini's friend)
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