Anveshane (Kannada: ಅನ್ವೇಷಣೆ; English: Search) is a 1983 Kannada movie directed and co-written by T.S. Nagabharana, released in 1983. It starred Girish Karnad, Ananth Nag and Smita Patil playing the pivotal roles.
Synopsis
In the mid-1980s, Shaam (Anant Nag) and Revati (Smita Patil) live in a ‘vothaara’ with a host of other families and two little girls. A ‘vothara’ is a set of houses that are usually owned by one person and inhabited by many families. Shaam works for a travel agency while Revati is a school teacher. Both are working hard to make ends meet in a social structure that has been making it increasingly difficult for the middle class. There is a lot of affection and love in this family that lives under the prying nose of old, perverted and goofy men who are married to nosy, loud and annoying women. Day in and day out the couple follows a standard routine which involves everyday chores of getting the kids ready for school, making breakfast and heading off to work. The house is locked all day until they all return in the evening.
, 2h34 Réalisé parT. S. Nagabharana GenresDrame, Romance ActeursShiva Rajkumar, Avinash, Anant Nag, Vidhya Venkatesh, Raju Ananthaswamy, Pankaj Tripathi Note80% B. Shankar (Shivaraj Kumar) is born and raised in Delhi. He will be studying Engineering at the Banaras Hindu University. He has a doting father B. Sundara Rao(Anant Nag) and a loud, annoying and a threatening mother. Shankar has a younger brother, a pilot. Shankar is content with his life, but something in his heart tells him this is not where he belongs. Shankar’s girlfriend (who lives in Delhi) Varalakshmi (Vidhya Venkatesh) is a Kannadati. His college friend Seetharam(Raju Ananthaswamy) from Karnataka, teaches him Kannada to talk with Varalakshmi. When Shankar returns to Delhi, his mother plans to marry him off and he reluctantly agrees to meet his bride-to-be. In the party, During the conversation he realizes the letter "B" in his name is for "Bangaadi". But he doesn't know whether Bangaadi is a person or a town, and is curious about its significance. When Shankar is speaking in Kannada with his brother over the phone for fun, his father hears it. And his father says, "Speak in Kannada, my son. It has been so long since I have heard that language". Then, Shankar discovers he is a Kannadiga and is happy that he's at least found his Origin. His father confesses that his father (Shankar's Grandfather) abandoned his native but he didn't try to go back even once. Shankar wants to discover his native.