Vande Matharam (2001 film)

Vande Matharam
Directed by	Om Prakash
Written by	M. S. Ramesh R. Rajashekhar (Dialogues)
Screenplay by	Om Prakash
Story by	J. K. Bharavi
Produced by	B. Jayasridevi
Starring	Ambareesh Vijayashanti
Cinematography	T. Janardhan
Edited by	Manohar
Music by	Deva
Production company	Chinni Films
Distributed by	Bahar Films
Release date	5 January 2001 (2001-01-05)
Running time	144 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Vande Matharam (transl. Mother, I bow to thee) is a 2001 Kannada-language film directed Om Prakash and written by J. K. Bharavi. It stars Ambareesh and Vijayashanti. Deva composed the music for the film.

Cast

• Ambareesh as CBI Officer Yashwanth
• Vijayashanti as DCP Gayatri Brahmavar
• Girish Karnad as Gayatri's father
• Ashish Vidhyarthi as Major Sujan
• Qaisar Shurza
• Kiran Kumar
• Kazan Khan as Inspector Deva
• Sunil Raoh as Abhishek, Gayatri's brother
• Shivaram
• Avinash
• Karibasavaiah
• Ayyappa
• Tiptur Raghu
• Meena
• Sailaja
• Maina Chandru
• Padma Kumata
• Sathyajith as a police officer
• Narsing Yadav as Sujan's henchman
• Besant Ravi as Sujan's henchman

Members of the Citizen rights council

• Ravi Teja
• Kumar Govind
• Vinod Raj
• Harish
• Sumanth
• Anand
• Brahmaji
• Damini
• Akhila
• Reethu

Production

The film was planned to be shot in Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil, but the film was later made only in Kannada with a Telugu dubbed version.^[1]

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by Deva.^[2]

• "No Problem" - Srinivas, Krishnaraj, Swarnalatha
• "Sandal Wood Huduga" - P. Unnikrishnan, Swarnalatha
• "Ma Thujhe Salam" - Gangadhar, Krishnaraj
• "Hindusthana Gottheno" - SPB
• "Thayya Thakka Tha" - Krishnaraj, Unnikrishnan, Anuradha Sriram
• "Bisi Nettharu" - K. S. Chithra

Release and reception

The film released on January 5, 2001.^[3] The film was dubbed in Telugu with the same name.^[4] The Telugu dubbed version released on 12 October 2001.^[5]

Regarding the Telugu dubbed version, Gudipoodi Srihari of The Hindu noted that the "role of Gayatri is well portrayed by Vijaya Shanti" and that Ambarish "does justice to his role".^[5]

References

1. "Vande Matharam". Sify. 2 April 2002. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021.
2. "Vande Matharam (2000) - Deva" – via mio.to.
3. "Vande Matharam – ವಂದೇ ಮಾತರಂ (2001/೨೦೦೧)". 16 December 2013.
4. "JK Bharavi prepares another subject for Chiru". Idlebrain. 2 July 2001.
5. Srihari, Gudipoodi. "Telugu Cinema - Review - Vandemataram - Vijaya Shanti - OmPrakash - Nara Jayasridevi". The Hindu – via Idlebrain.com.

External links

• Vande Matharam at IMDb