Kannada film item numbers

Kannada filmmakers no longer have to scout for glam dolls to do item numbers. Heroines are doing it themselves

If a film’s heroine appears in a glam song number, that would under normal circumstances be dubbed an item number. It is there because the situation demands it, and not because it is meant to titillate. kannada Songs, these days, are situational, say Sandalwood heroines in unison. Which might beat logic as to why they are going all out to up the ante in terms of glam quotient and dancing to chartbusters. But the situational item is the order of the day and in the recent past, actors like Ramya, Sanjjanaa and Ragini Dwivedi have been part of such songs that made many a frontbencher happy.

SANJJANAA

The actor’s song Mahilpurada Mylari from the film Mylari was touted to be the ultimate mass number, which even the actor agrees to. “Mahilpurada Mylari is the ultimate mass number, like Rakshitha’s Suntara Gaali. I’ve never danced so much for a Kannada film,” said Sanjjanaa.

RAMYA

When Ramya decided to do an item number in her film Johnny Mera Naam, the actor went on a diet to look slim and svelte. She flaunted her curves and gyrated to the beats of Urigoble Padmavathi along with co-star Vijay. And now, she is all set to shake a leg to a raunchy number again. This time around, though, she is not the heroine of the film, and instead will be doing the special number for Kavitha Lankesh’s Crazy Loka. The song, Galabe Galabe will be choreographed by Imran Sardaria.

RAGINI DWIVEDI

Ragini’s song Thuppa Beku Thuppa for the film Kalla Malla Sulla has become a huge rage and Ragini Dwivedi is loving it. “I’m the new It girl and I don’t think there’s anything wrong in being remembered for this song. I had told the choreographer that the picturization had to be out of this world. This was my first attempt at an item song. It is an introduction song for my character in the film,” she said.

Who is the heroine of Kannada movie Huduga Hudigi

Kannada director Indrajith Lankesh refuses to give away who the leading lady of Huduga Hudugi is. With six actresses in it perhaps it’s the best strategy.

Ileana, Sada, Bieanca Desai, Sanjana, Anita and Lekha Washington.

Dhyaan (Samir Dattani in Bollywood) gets to romance all these beauties in his latest Kannada film Huduga Hudugi directed by Indrajith Lankesh.

But neither the director, nor, on his insistence, the actors are ready to reveal who the ‘heroine’ is. To make things more complicated Dhyaan romances a different girl in each of the songs that have been released for to publicise the film.

“Sure, we have had to play up the glamour quotient in the film, but that does not mean Dhyaan will be seen as a serial lover or a Casanova. Each girl has a different characterisation. Lekha Washington plays an opportunist, Sada a girl-next-door, Bieanca a talkative sort and so on. So the promos are not just about cashing in on their glamourous images alone," says Indrajith Lankesh, refusing to point out any one of them as the leading lady.

Ileana makes her debut in Kannada with this film and sources say it has cost the producer Rs 50 lakh. Indrajith who introduced Deepika Padukone to films is making a comeback after three years. Dhyaan and Sada, who had been paired in his earlier film Monalisa are the only repetitions.

Kannada actor Ganesh was first approached for the role Dhyaan is playing. “But my economics dictates that the lead actor receive 20 per cent of the total budget of the film. If it is 60 per cent, it becomes unviable,” says Indrajith.