Vishnuvardhan starred in tens of memorable songs, but his brief guest appearance as a lecturer in friend Ravichandran‘s Grease2 takeoff, Prem Loka, brought an admirable lightness to the superhit film.
Which are Vishnuvardhan’s top-5 songs?
And which are his top-5 films?
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Below, Vishnuvardhan with Suhasini in Muttina Haara. Both these songs, the first in Kannada, the second in Kodavatak, come from the quill of Hamsalekha.
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IMDB: Vishnuvardhan Filmography
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Tags: Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Bollywood, Churumuri, Girish Kasaravalli, Grease2, Hamsalekha, Mammootty, Muttina Haara, Prema Loka, Ravichandran, Sandalwood, Sans Serif, Suhasini, Vishnuvardhan
30 December 2009 at 2:13 pm
Top 5 films
1) Bhootayana maga ayyu
2) Nagarahaavu
3) Muttina haara
4) Bandana
5) Nishkarsha
30 December 2009 at 3:36 pm
1 to 4..
Bhootayyana maga Ayyu
5: Naagarhaavu
30 December 2009 at 5:43 pm
Sad day indeed. He was an actor with unique style and a disarming smile and not to mention one of the very few early stars of Kannada who made ‘fights’ look realistic on screen!
My list:
1. Bhootayyana maga Ayyu
2. Naagara Haavu
3. Makkala Sainya
4. Suprabhata
5. Hombisilu
I immensely liked him in his early years ie 1970-80′s. Later he just got sucked into commercial swirl of movies with lot of forgettable flicks such as Dada, Deva, Rudra, Polic mattu Dada etc and thus a wonderfully talented actor was lost to market forces.
30 December 2009 at 9:58 pm
Naagara Haavu
Hombisilu
Bandhana
Bhootayana maga ayyu
Muttina Haara
Kittu Puttu
31 December 2009 at 1:40 am
My list would be,top 10 though:
1. Muttina Haara
2. Bandhana
3. Bhootayyana maga Ayyu
4. Apthamithra
5. Nagara Haavu
6. Nishkarsha
7. Neenu nakkare haalu Sakkare
8. Hombisilu
9. Suprabhata
10. Yajamana
one last please…Malaya Marutha
RIP Sahasa Simha…its a sad end to the year..and the future of kannada industry is ……
31 December 2009 at 1:59 am
and exactly how is Premaloka a Grease 2 takeoff? because both movies had college students and songs in them?
31 December 2009 at 1:00 pm
Naagarahaavu
Naagarahaavu
Naagarahaavu
Naagarahaavu
Naagarahaavu
31 December 2009 at 4:39 pm
http://IndianTake.blogspot.com/2009/12/vishnuvardhan-best-top-movies.html
2 January 2010 at 11:46 am
Sisya,
From wikipedia:
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Loosely based on Grease-2, the film revolves around the protagonist, who tries to woo a girl (his classmate). On being spurned, he poses as a mysterious biker, and sweeps her off her feet. Towards the end, she comes to know that the biker and her classmate are in fact the same guy.
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If you want to check for yourself, watch both movies, the storyline is essentially the same.
Of course the song with cameos from Vishnu as professor and Prabhakar as principal is a classic.
3 January 2010 at 8:30 pm
My selection. After naagarahaavu, in no particular order
Naagarahaavu
suprabhaata
mutthhina haara
nishkarsha
Bandhana.
For some strange reason, I am yet to watch on Bhoothayyana Maga Ayyu. On my DVD watching list for next week.
5 January 2010 at 2:11 pm
Naagara Haavu
Bhootayyana Maga Ayyu
Gandhada Gudi
Muththina Haara
Bandhana
8 January 2010 at 10:36 pm
A movie where Vishnuvardhan acts as a football goalkeeper is a really good movie. I forgot the name.
2 June 2010 at 2:42 pm
GURUGALA TOP 5:
1. AAPTHA RAKSHAKA
2. AAPTHAMITRA
3. VEERAPPA NAYAKA
4. YAJAMANA
5. NAGARA HAVU MANY MORE
6 November 2012 at 12:18 am
1.Nagara Havu
2.Bandhana
3.muttina haara
4.karna
5.veerappa nayaka
6.Nishkarsha
7.Singapuradalli raja kulla
8.Jimmi kallu
9.Maha kshathreeya
10.Sooryavamsha