Jenu Goodu

1963 Indian film

1963 (1963)

CountryIndiaLanguageKannada

Jenu Goodu (transl. Beehive) is a 1963 Indian Kannada language film, directed by Y. R. Swamy and produced by T. Vasanna and S. Heera. The film stars K. S. Ashwath, Udaykumar, Rajashankar and Pandari Bai in lead roles. Jayanthi and Chandrakala both made their Kannada debut with this film. The film has musical score by Vijaya Krishnamurthy.^[1]^[2] The film was a remake of the 1954 Bengali film Banga Kora ^[3] which in turn was based on the novel Bijila by Prabhavathi Devi Saraswathi. The Bengali movie was also earlier remade in Tamil as Kula Dheivam and in Hindi as Bhabhi. Pandari Bai reprised her role in all versions except Bengali.

Cast

K. S. Ashwath as Raghanna
Udaykumar as Rajanna
Pandari Bai as Shantha
Rajashankar as Nagaraj
T. N. Balakrishna as a stage actor
Narasimharaju as a stage actor
M. N. Lakshmi Devi as Mangala
Jayanthi as Tara
Shivaraj
B. K. Eshwarappa
H. R. Shastry as Raghanna's uncle
Suryakumar
Chandrakala as Latha
M. Jayashree as Sharada
G. M. Nanjappa
Comedian Guggu as a moneylender
Gopi as Kittu (credited as Master Gopi)
A. M. Shivaji
Sorat Ashwath as Raghanna's father
K. Seethapathi as Seethapathi, doctor
Rathnakar as young Raghanna
Ramabai as Kallavva

Soundtrack

References

^ "Jenu Goodu". chiloka.com. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
^ "Jenu Goodu". nthwall.com. Archived from the original on 10 January 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
^ "Tamil cinema's bong connection". The Times of India. 23 April 2018.