Melkote Manja

Melkote Manja is a 2017 Indian Kannada-language comedy-drama film written, enacted and directed by Jaggesh. This is the third film featuring Jaggesh as "Manja" after Eddelu Manjunatha (2009) and Manjunatha BA LLB (2012). The film also stars Aindrita Ray and Rangayana Raghu in the lead roles.^[2]

It is a comedy film and a complete family entertainer. Jaggesh belongs to a lower-middle-class family. He is always under Debt. However this trait itself will propel him to good acquaitances including his debtors who end up protecting him from even any danger he faces simply to get back their principle amount. Manja quips when asked to give up his ways, and be as his father saying it was a bore to live like a recluse if not his father. The film is shot in Melkote, which is another highlight of this movie. Aindrita & Jaggesh do justice to their roles. Also do the co actors done a splendid job with full energy

Principal photography commenced in August 2014 in Melkote, Mandya district of Karnataka. Filming process took several delay and took two years for completion. The film is set to release on 10 February 2017 across Karnataka and it's remake of Eththan Tamil movie which was released in 2011^[3]

Cast

• Jaggesh as Manja
• Aindrita Ray
• Rangayana Raghu
• Srinivas Prabhu
• Chandrakala
• Mimicry Dayanand
• Bank Janardhan
• Killer Venkatesh
• Srinivas Gowda
• Kurigalu Pradeep

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack is scored by Giridhar Diwan. His name was recommended to Jaggesh by his brother Komal Kumar.^[4] The audio rights of the film was acquired by Anand Audio and the complete album was released on 27 November 2016. Actor Puneet Rajkumar was signed in to sing a song penned by Yogaraj Bhat.^[5] Rest of the songs are written by Ram Narayan and Jaggesh.

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External links

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