January to June - Hits and Misses

January to June - Hits and Misses
Updated on : Jul 15, 2012

The last six months in Kannada cinema industry there is some sort of relief as six films done well, six films were averages and 12 films expected flopped miserably. In some of the cases the producers made money but the distributors failed to click.

Take a look at the top hits, average hits and expected flops for first six months of 2012:

TOP HITS

1. CHINGARI – Producer - aha Shaila Cine Sankula by Mahadevu and Manu Gowda, Director – Harsha, Darshan, Deepika Kamaiah, Srujan Lokesh, Bhavana V Harikrishna music and HC Venu camera.
2. GOVINDAYANAMAHA - Producer – KA Suresh, Direction – Pawan Wadeyar, Music – Gurukiran, Cinematography – Suresh Babu, Cast – Komalkumar, Madhulika, Parul, Ana Georgia, Rekha, Harish Raj, Raju Thalikote, Vinayak Joshi, MS Umesh, Kirloskar Sathya and others.
3. ANNA BOND, Producer – Smt Parvathamma Rajakumar, Direction – Soori, Cinematography – Sathya Hegde, Music – V Harikrishna, Cast – Puneeth Rajakumar, Priyamani, Nidhi Subbaiah, Jackie Shroff, Rangayana Raghu, Avinash, Vidyamurthy, Achyuth Rao, John Kokkin, Petrol Prasanna, Ninasam Ashwath and others.
4. KATARI VEERA SURA SUNDARANGI – 3D, Producer – Munirathna Naidu, Direction – Suresh Krissna, Music – V Harikrishna, Cinematography – HC Venu, Cast – Upendra, Ramya, Ambarish, Doddanna, Sridhar, Tennis Krishna, Balaraj, Ramanithu Chaudhary, Suman Ranganath, Rishika Singh and others.
5. ADDHURI, Producer CMR Shanker Reddy and Keerthi Swamy, Story, screenplay, dialogues, Direction – AP Arjun, Music – V Harikrishna, Cinematography – Sooryakiran, Cast – Dhruva Sarja, Radhika Pandit, Tabla Naani, Nagathihalli Chandrasekhar, Raju Thalikote, Tarun Chandra and others.
6. DHANDUPALYA, Producers – Prashanth Kumar and Girish, Direction – Srinivasaraju, Music – Arjun Janya, Camera – Venkat Prasad, Cast – Pooja Gandhi, Makrand Deshpande, Petrol Prasanna, Kari Subbu, Yathiraj, Jai Dev, Swathi, Danny, Raghu Mukerjee, Nisha Kothari, Ravishanker, Sanketh Kashi, Bhavya, Edakallu Chandrasekhar, Harish Roy and others.


AVERAGE FILMS

1. SHAKTHI, Producer – Ramu, Screenplay, Dialogues and Direction – Anilkumar, Cinematography – Rajesh K, Music – Vardhan, Cast – Malashri, Avinash, Radhika Gandhi, Kiran Srinivas, Soujanya, Sharat Lohitashva, Manoj, Ashis Vidyarthi, Hema Chaudhary, Sayyaji Shindhe, Sadhu Kokila, Kurigalu Pratap and others.
2. Ko…Ko…Koli Kothi, Banner – Bharani Minerals, Producers – Bhasker and Adhi, Screenplay and Direction – R Chandru, Music – Ramana Gogula, Cinematography – KS Chandrasekhar, Cast – Srinagara Kitty, Priyamani, Srihari, Anu Prabhakar, Ravi Kaale, Harshika Poonacha, Rangayana Raghu, Sampathkumar, Suresh Mangalore, Honnavalli Krishna, Raju Thalikote, Mithra, Raghuram, Mohan Juneja, Biradar, Gym Ravi, Padmaja Rao, Vijayasarathi, Yethiraj, Swayamvara Chandru and others.
3. SIDLINGU, Banner – Samy Associates, Producer – TP Siddaraju, Direction – Vijayaprasad, Music – Anoop Seelin, Cinematography – Sugnan, Cast – Yogish, Ramya, Suman Ranganath, Achuth Rao, Renukaradhya, Girija Lokesh, Sridhar, Srikanth Heblikar and others.
4. ALEMARI – Producer – BK Srinivas, Direction – Santhu, Music – Arjun Janya, Cinematography – Manjunath Nayak, Cast – Yogish, Radhika Pandit, Umasri, Rangayana Raghu, Adhi Lokesh, Rakesh Adiga, Ramesh Bhat, Raghuram, Mico Nagaraj, Ramehs Pandit and others.
5. BHEEMA THIRADALLI, Producer – Anaji Nagaraj, Direction – N Omprakash Rao, Music – Abhiman Roy, Cinematography – Anaji Nagaraj, Cast – Vijay, Pranitha, Umasri, Prajwal Bopaiah, Lokanath, Sharat Lohitashva, Doddanna, Gururaj Hoskote and others.
6. JAANU, Producers – Jayanna and Bogendra, Story, screenplay, direction – Preetham Gubbi, Music – V Harikrishna, Cinematography – S Krishna, Cast – Yash, Deepa Sannidhi, Shobaraj, Sangeetha, Rangayana Raghu, Sadhu Kokila, Layendra, Madhu, Veena Bhat and others.


EXPECTED BUT FLOPS – ‘Arakshana’ of Upendra and Ragini, ‘Breaking News’ of Ajay Rao and Radhika Pandit, ‘Nam Anna Don’ of Ramesh Aravind and Mona Parvaresh, ‘Parie’ of Rakesh, Harshika and Nivedhita, ‘Parijatha’ of Diganth and Aindrita Ray, ‘Lucky’ of Ramya and Yash, ‘Munjane’ of Ganesh and Manjari, ‘Narasimha’ of V Ravichandran and Nikesha Patel, ‘Shikari’ of Mammooty and Poonam Bajwa, ‘Rana’ of Pankaj Narayan, ‘Crazy Loka’ of V Ravichandran and Daisy Boppanna, ‘Paper Dhoni’ of Naveen Krishna and Shanthala.