Annayya Kannada(ಅಣ್ಣಯ್ಯ) is a Kannada film released in 1993, directed by D. Rajendra Babu. This film stars Crazy Star Ravichandran, Madhoo, Aruna Irani, Srinath, Dheerendra Gopal, Kashi, Ashalatha amongst others. Music was composed by Naada Brahma "Hamsalekha". The film was produced by M. Chandrashekar. It was a remake of Kannada movie Mallammana Pavada, starring Rajkumar and B. Saroja Devi. It was also remade in Tamil as Enga Chinna Rasa and Telugu as Abbaigaru and to Hindi as Beta (1992), starring Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit.
Synopsis
Annayya is a story of a person named "Annayya"(Ravichandran) who is the only child of a rich Landlord(Srinath) and had lost his mother at the time of his birth. Annayya's father can provide him anything he wants but Annayys's only desire is to get mother's love. In order to fulfill his son's desire Sreenath gets married to Nagamani(Aruna Irani), thinking that she could take care of him more than his real mother would. As the day passes, Nagamani's brother Dheerendra Gopal enters into Annayya's house by convincing Sreenath that he has lost all his properties due to some loss. Then Dheerendra Gopal asks her sister Nagamani to get the property of annayya's to be nominated into her name so as to think of her child which is about to enter into the outside world. Then Nagamani makes Annayya to follow each and every step that her mother says and not to take even a single decision without her permission. He even stops going to school and become a slave to his mother.
Srirama and Chandra are born twins to Srinath and Sumithra. Over a family difference, the couple split and Srirama lives with his father in the Madikeri tea estate, while Chandra is brought up by his mother in Bangalore city. Srirama is born as an innocent and immature boy whose life revolves around his father and friend Seetha whom he intends to marry. However, with an urge over property, Srinath's manager Vajramuni hatches a successful plan to murder him and leaves behind Srirama orphaned and sole property owner. Srirama, without a knowledge in accounts, gets cheated regularly by his manager. Before dying, Srirama's father reveals the secret about his mother and twin brother staying in Bangalore. Knowing this, manager tricks a drama couple as his mother and brother and makes him believe. However, Srirama comes to know about the gang's plan and runs away to inform the police. En route he gets killed by falling off a cliff making Seetha lose her conscious and mentally unstable. The rest of the plot tells the story about how Srirama becomes a ghost and informs all the incidents to his twin brother in city and how Chandra deals with the situation.
Réalisé parS.V. Rajendra Singh Babu GenresDrame, Aventure ActeursAmrish Puri, Shankar Naag, Vajramuni, Srinath, Lakshmi Narayan, Jayamalini Note20% The films opens to a visual narration with a series of ancient paintings, of a wealthy kingdom named Bherunda that existed around 700 years ago at the erstwhile Mysore State (present-day Karnataka), ruled by king Aditya Devanarayana. As a battle with the kingdom's enemies approached, he ordered that all the kingdom's wealth be transported and stored in a faraway island, in a cave. Having won the battle, the enemies returned empty-handed. But, the location of the wealth remained a mystery for centuries.