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Jokefalls is a 2005 India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n Kannada-language comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 movie, directed by Ashok Patil and produced by Atlanta Nagendra
Atlanta Nagendra
Atlanta Nagendra is a Screenwriter and Director. He shot into fame with Jokefalls, one of the hits in Kannada industry. Nagendra is a software engineer turned Film Maker based in Atlanta, USA...

. Music was composed by Mano Murthy
Mano Murthy
Mano Murthy is a leading musician and composer in the Kannada Film Industry. Although his compositions in his earlier films were also successful, he shot to fame with Mungaru Male, one of the biggest hits in Kannada industry. Before moving onto becoming a composer, he was an entrepreneur, having...

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General background

Director Patil devised the basic plot of the story from the Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

 movie Chupke Chupke
Chupke Chupke
Chupke Chupke is a 1975 Indian film comedy starring Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Om Prakash, Usha Kiran, David, Asrani and Keshto Mukherjee. The movie, a remake of the Bengali hit 'Chhaddobeshi', was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee with music composed by S.D....

 and reworked it to give it a fresh look. Patil then recruited Ramesh to act in the film.

Plot

Botany
Botany
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 professor
Professor
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 Anant Patil falls in love with Sulkeha and marries her to the dismay of Sulekha's brother in law, Raghav Joshi. Raghav refuses to attend the wedding. But Anant decides to turn the tables on Raghav and teach him a lesson.

Crew

  • Director: Ashok Patil
  • Producer: Atlanta Nagendra
  • Music: Manomurthy
  • Cinematography: Ashok Kashyap
  • Editing: Shashi Kumar
  • Lyrics: K.Kalyan, Nagathihalli Chandrashekar
  • Singers: Rajesh, Nandita, Chetan, Kavitha KrishnaMurthy

Soundtrack

The music is scored by Mano Murthy
Mano Murthy
Mano Murthy is a leading musician and composer in the Kannada Film Industry. Although his compositions in his earlier films were also successful, he shot to fame with Mungaru Male, one of the biggest hits in Kannada industry. Before moving onto becoming a composer, he was an entrepreneur, having...

 and was big hit
Song title Singers
Gandhavathi Rajesh
Swaraga Shrusthi Modala Rajesh & Chethan
Nanna Beladingalu Neenu Kavitha Krishnamurthy
O Prema Tangaliye Nandita
Naguvina Loka Idu Chethan & Nandita

Box-Office

The film received a good response, and ran for a hundred days in Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

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It was the first Kannada movie to run for twenty five weeks in PVR Cinemas in Bangalore.

The movie also saw screenings in Australia
Australia
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, Canada
Canada
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, and the United States
United States
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External links

  • http://www.omcreations.us
  • http://www.viggy.com/english/current_joke_falls_cassette.asp
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  • http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?trkid=73&movieid=70058002
  • http://www.viggy.com/english/review_joke_falls.asp
  • http://www.viggy.com/english/current_jokefalls_us_release.asp
  • http://www.viggy.com/english/current_joke_falls03.asp
  • http://www.viggy.com/jokefalls/gallery.asp
  • http://www.chitraranga.com/picbase/jokefalls_pmeet.htm
  • http://www.chitraloka.com/sections/stock_shots/flashback_may_2005.shtml
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