Kannada Movies That Changed The Rules Of The Game This Year!
Last few years have been very good for Kannada Film Industry in terms of producing good cinema - Lucia, Rangitaranga, Ugramm and Ulidavaru Kandanthe to name a few. A few movies may not have succeeded at the box-office but these are the movies which will become cult classics in the long run and inspire the new guns to make a good movie.
We are yet to reach the middle of 2016, but there are already many reasons why 2016 will be the best year for Kannada Cinema. We have tried to list out a few movies which made every Kannadiga proud and took Kannada cinema to new heights.
U
Turn
Made
by
Pawan
Kumar
of
Lucia
fame,
the
movie
created
buzz
from
the
day
project
was
announced.
It
released
worldwide
last
month,
and
Pawan
succeeded
in
reaching
everyone's
expectations
which
made
this
movie
as
a
super
hit.
At
the
same
time,
movie
was
appreciated
by
critics
all
over
the
world,
for
its
screenplay
and
narration.

U Turn has managed to collect close to 5 Crores (worldwide nett collection) till date which is very good and iterates the point that good cinema has audience in any part of the world.
It is being remade in Telugu and Tamil by a well-known production house with top Telugu/Tamil actress Samantha playing the lead role, which would be a testimonial for Pawan Kumar's work in times when our top stars are remaking movies from Telugu and Tamil.
Thithi
The
movie
which
had
non
actors
and
made
by
newcomers
was
not
known
to
Kannada
media,
leave
alone
the
Kannada
audience,
until
movie
was
premiered
and
appreciated
in
Mumbai
Film
Festival
last
year.

The movie had a theatrical release almost after a year and undoubtedly, today this is most spoken about Kannada movie. Meanwhile, movie went on to win awards in many international film festivals.
Also, Thithi was adjudged as the best movie in both National and State Awards. If this was something less to be proud of, bigwigs of Bollywood like Aamir Khan, Irfan Khan, Anurag Kashyap, Kangana Ranaut and many other celebrities watched this classic at private screenings and took to social media to appreciate this gem.
Godhi
Banna
Sadharna
Mykattu
This
Anant
Nag
starrer
was
in
news
from
the
day
project
was
announced.
When
movie
released
earlier
this
month,
movie
surpassed
our
expectations
and
turned
out
to
be
a
very
good
movie.
The
performances
of
all
the
artists
especially
Anant
Nag
and
Vasishta
N
Simha
were
appreciated
unanimously.

The movie was just released in A Centers and responses have been fantabulous till date. In the weekends, it had almost 100% occupancy in the multiplexes and in weekdays, percentage is nothing less than 90, which is again excellent. One last wish for fans would be, Anant Nag Sir winning an Oscar for the stupefying performance.
Shivalinga
A
few
may
be
shocked
looking
at
our
fourth
pick,
but
we
have
reasons
why
we
can
be
proud
of
this
movie
and
what
it
did
differently
from
the
other
movies.
Despite
having
a
star
hero
in
the
form
of
Shivanna
and
commercial
director
P
Vasu,
movie
did
not
follow
the
typical
commercial
formula.

Shivalinga completed 100 days in 6 theaters including 4 single screens at a time when it is a big achievement for a movie, if it completes a week or two in a theater. The movie was released in other metropolitan cities and overseas as well. It garnered good responses in those centers as well, proving once again that at the end of the day, only content matters.
Let's hope that this is just a start, we have many more meaningful and good cinema coming up in Kannada Film Industry. Keep supporting good Kannada cinema!