Jayahe

Jayahe is a 2010 Indian Kannada-language action drama film directed by Thriller Manju starring Ayesha in the titular role, Jai Akash and himself with Gowri Pandit and Avinash in a supporting role. The film was released to mixed reviews, but was a box office success.

Jayahe
VCD cover
Directed by	Thriller Manju
Written by	Kamala Sarathi (dialogue)
Screenplay by	Thriller Manju
Story by	Thriller Manju
Starring	Ayesha Jai Akash Thriller Manju
Cinematography	Janardhan Babu
Edited by	T. Govardhan
Music by	M. N. Krupakar
Production company	Cygnuss Entertainment
Release date	9 July 2010 (2010-07-09)
Country	India
Language	Kannada

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Plot

Jaya goes to Bangkok in search of her missing father Sushilkumar, who is a software engineer. Since the kidnappers are marital artists, she wants to learn techniques to fight them and goes to Dhrona to learn them.^[1]

Cast

• Ayesha as Jaya
• Jai Akash
• Thriller Manju as Dhrona
• Gowri Pandit
• Avinash as Sushilkumar
• Ramesh Bhat
• Suryanarayana as Khan
• Ravikumar
• M H Gurumurthy Reddy
• Ramakrishna
• Killer Venkatesh
• Dombara Krishna Suresh

Production

Tirupati-based Ayesha (dubbed as Lady Bruce Lee) has a black belt in karate and trained under her father Habib since she was one-year-old. Thriller Manju and Ayesha previously worked together for Shabda (2002), but this film marks her lead debut. The film was extensively shot in Coorg. There are approximately eight fights in the movie that each less than one-and-a-half minute long. She performed all of her stunts without a stunt double.^[1]

Soundtrack

Jayahe
Soundtrack album by M. N. Krupakar
Released	2010
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	26:55
Language	Kannada
Label	Anand Audio
External audio Jayahe – Jukebox on YouTube

The soundtrack was composed by M. N. Krupakar with lyrics by Thriller Manju.^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Hechchu Kammi"	Sneha	4:49
2.	"Anuragada"	Sagar, Priya Yadav	4:33
3.	"Bandalu Nagini"	Krishnavaedhan Kulkarni	3:44
4.	"Cheluve"	Krupakar, Priyadarshini	5:13
5.	"Anuragada" (Pathos)	Sudhindra	4:52
6.	"Roshavesha"	Krupakar	3:44
Total length:			26:55

Release and reception

The film was a box office success and the film was subsequently dubbed in other languages.^[3]

A critic from IANS rated the film 1/5 stars and wrote, "Jayahe is a badly made film. Watch it at your own risk".^[4] A critic from The New Indian Express wrote, "The movie is worth watching if you are interested in action scenes".^[5]