Chaitrada Premanjali

Chaitrada Premanjali is a 1992 Indian Kannada-language romance drama film directed and written by S. Narayan making his debut in direction. The film stars newcomers Raghuveer and Shwetha along with Lokesh and Abhijeeth in other pivotal roles. The film met with positive reviews upon release from critics and audience eventually becoming the musical hit of the year.^[1][2]

Chaitrada Premanjali
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Directed by	S. Narayan
Written by	S. Narayan
Produced by	M. Shashikala
Starring	Raghuveer Shwetha Lokesh Abhijeeth
Cinematography	P. K. H. Das
Edited by	Suresh Urs
Music by	Hamsalekha
Production company	M. C. Productions
Release date	13 January 1992 (1992-01-13)
Running time	154 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada

The film featured original score and soundtrack composed and written by Hamsalekha. The soundtrack proved to be one of the biggest hit albums of the year.

Plot

Fresh faces romance with a tragic end. Karate champion Prem (Raghuveer) goes to the family country retreat to practice for a tournament and falls for village girl Anju (Shweta). Her father (Lokesh), however, prevents the marriage and tries to force her to marry a womanizer with an obliging father. Prem wins his trophy and rescues Anju, but the couple is killed by the bad guys.

Cast

• Raghuveer as Prem
• Shwetha as Anju
• Abhijeeth as Mahesh, an evil man
• Lokesh as Seenappa, Anju's father
• Srinivasa Murthy as Manmatha Rao, Prem's father
• Rajanand as Manjayya, servant of Prem's estate
• Jyothi Gurucharan as step-mother
• Ashalatha as Prem's dead mother
• Sathyajith as karate trainer
• S. Narayan as Shankar, Prem's close friend
• Swasthik Shankar as Jagapathi Rao, Mahesh's father
• Shobaraj as Veerabhadra
• Thriller Manju as Robert, karate champion
• Vikram
• K. D. Venkatesh
• Guru Murthy

Production

Shobaraj was cast in the film after the actor who supposed to play the role did not show up.^[3]

Soundtrack

The music was composed and written by Hamsalekha for Lahari Music audio company.^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"O Kogile"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
2.	"O Malenadina"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra
3.	"Dance Dance"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
4.	"Nannavare Nanage"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Manjula Gururaj
5.	"Daari Bidu"	Manjula Gururaj
6.	"Chaitrada Premanjaliya"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Chandrika Gururaj
7.	"Kaveri Theeradalli Mungarige"	Latha Hamsalekha

Release

The film was ready for release but no theaters were willing to screen the film citing that Raghuveer was not good looking. Ultimately, with the intervention of producer Ramu, theatre owners agreed to screen the film until Khuda Gawah (1992) starring Amitabh Bachchan released. However, soon after the release of this film, theaters had house full shows and Khuda Gawah had to delay its release in Karnataka by one month.^[5][6]