Ekadantha

Ekadantha
Ekadantha
Directed by	Sachin Pilgaonkar
Written by	Sachin Pilgaonkar
Based on	Navra Maza Navsacha by Sachin Pilgaonkar
Produced by	Sriram ; Gopi ; Kumar
Starring	Vishnuvardhan; Ramesh Aravind; Prema
Cinematography	P. K. H. Das
Edited by	T. Shashikumar
Music by	Gurukiran
Production; company	Ekadantha Productions
Release date	16 March 2007;
Running time	147 min
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Ekadantha is a 2007 Indian Kannada-language comedy drama film directed and written by Bollywood actor - director Sachin starring Vishnuvardhan, Ramesh Aravind and Prema. It features soundtrack from Gurukiran. Released on 16 March 2007, the film met with average and critical response at the box-office.

The film is based on the Novel Chala na gade ^[1] which was made into his 2004 Marathi film Navra Maza Navsacha which was inspired by the 1972 Hindi movie Bombay to Goa which in turn was a remake of 1966 Tamil movie Madras to Pondicherry.^[2]

Cast

Vishnuvardhan as Vijay
Ramesh Arvind as Vakrathunda / Vyakky
Prema as Bhakthi
Ramesh Bhat as Mallayya
Mimicry Dayanand as Diamond Danny
Umashri as Sheela Devi
Mandya Ramesh
Bank Janardhan as teacher
Girija Lokesh as Girija
Maria Monica Susairaj
Mandeep Roy as Autorickshaw Driver Kishore
Kaminidharan
Kamala Prakash
Roopesh Gowda
Bhanu Prakash
Sachin
Apoorva
Rathnamaala
Shivajirao Jadhav
Joe Simon
Vaijanath Biradar
Mohan Juneja
R. G. Vijayasarathy
M. N. Suresh
Rachana Maurya as an item dancer in "E Sonta Nodu"
Gurukiran in a guest appearance as himself

Production

The film came into fruition in 2005 when Sachin told his friend Vishnuvardhan about his novel's positive reception when he made it into a Marathi film. Vishnuvardhan suggested Sachin make the novel into a Kannada film. The film's producers previously produced News (2004).^[3] The film was shot in Ganpatipule, Maharastra.^[1]

Soundtrack

All the songs are composed and scored by Gurukiran.^[4]

Sl No	Song Title	Singer(s)	Lyrics
1	"Bandal Badaayi"	Gurukiran	Gurukiran
2	"Ganapati Bappa"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra	V. Manohar
3	"Ekadantha"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra	Goturi
4	"Hogona Hogona"	Gurukiran, Shamita Malnad	V. Manohar
5	"Ee Sonta Nodu"	Vishnuvardhan, Malgudi Subha, Sachin	Shiva

Reception

Critical response

R. G. Vijayasarathy of IANS wrote that "This is one film which entertains you fully barring the first ten or fifteen minutes which has been surprisingly lagging and has some jarring sequences. But once Dr. Vishnuvardhan's character makes an entry into the scene, the film takes off to zoom and then it is zoom...vroom...ooh.... haa for the viewers. It is laughter all the while with each character in the film trying his level best to make the audience laugh".^[5] Rediff.com wrote that "Ekadantha simply rocks -- it's an enjoyable film all the way".^[6]