Katthegalu Saar Katthegalu

2003 Indian film

28 March 2003 (2003-03-28)

Running time

154 minsCountryIndiaLanguageKannada

Katthegalu Saar Katthegalu (transl. Donkeys, sir, donkeys) is a 2003 Indian Kannada-language comedy film directed by Rajendra Singh Babu. The film stars Ramesh Aravind, S. Narayan, Komal Kumar, Meghana Naidu and Urvashi. This is the third film in the Saar series directed by Babu and was released on 28 March 2003 and received generally positive reviews from the critics.

Cast

Ramesh Aravind as Romy
S. Narayan as Nani^[1]
Komal Kumar as Komi
Ruthika as Ramya
Urvashi as Urmila
Meghana Naidu as Nandhini
Soni Raj as Kapila
Umashree as Jayamma^[2]
Yamuna Murthy
Manjula
Jai Jagadish as Prakash
Sundar Raj
Kote Prabhakar
M. P. Shankar
Kirloskar Sathya
Bullet Prakash
Sathyajith
Harish Rai
Renuka Prasad
Bank Suresh
MS Narasimhamurthy^[3]

Soundtrack

Katthegalu Saar Katthegalu
Soundtrack album by Hamsalekha
Released	2003
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Lakshmi Audio

Track #	Song	Singer(s)	Lyrics
1	"Daga Donkey"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	Hamsalekha
2	"Allalle Allalle"	Udit Narayan, Nandini	Hamsalekha
3	"Eno Thumba Kushiyagidiya"	Rajesh Krishnan, Hemanth Kumar, Chetan Sosca	Hamsalekha
4	"Sathyavantharige Idu Kalavalla"	Rajesh Krishnan, Hemanth Kumar, Chetan Sosca	Hamsalekha
5	"Jaya Jayahe"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	Hamsalekha
6	"Lucky Lucky"	Shankar Mahadevan, Malgudi Subha	Hamsalekha

Release and reception

The film competed with forty-one other films for the Karnataka State Film Awards,^[4] but it was not nominated.

A critic from Viggy wrote that "In a nutshell, is a watchable film if you opt for an average comedy entertainer".^[5] A critic from Chitraloka said that "For every five minutes in this nearly 2 hours 40 minutes film the audience would laugh. They feel a respite as scores of Kannada films doled out below average films in the last three months leaving a danger. However Babu’s ‘KK3’ finally gives wonderful output".^[6] India Info wrote "Its time D. Rajendra Singh Babu uses his talent for some script which is really worthwhile rather that these Kathe's, Kothi's and Kudure's".^[7]

Box office

The film's budget was negatively affected by the change of timings in Kannada and Hindi film theatres.^[8]

References

^ "S Narayan: ಕುರಿಗಳು ಸಾರ್ ಕುರಿಗಳು ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಇವತ್ತಿಗೂ ಜನಕ್ಕೆ ಇಷ್ಟ ಆಗೋಕೆ ಕಾರಣ ಇದೇ ಅಂತೆ!". News18 (in Kannada). 5 June 2022.
^ "Kannada film actors who have been typecast into playing specific roles". The Times of India. 4 December 2020.
^ "An evening of laughter with actor-writer MS Narasimhamurthy". The Times of India. 21 August 2020.
^ Vijayalaxmi, M D Riti (30 May 2003). "Kasaravalli heads awards panel". Rediff.com.
^ "Katthegalu Saar Katthegalu film review". Viggy.
^ "KATHTHEGALU SAAR KATHTHEGALU MOVIE REVIEW". Chitraloka. 29 March 2003.
^ "Indiainfo: Kannada: KATHEGALU SAAR KATHEGALU REVIEW". Archived from the original on 7 August 2003. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
^ "Theatres revert to old timings". The Times of India. 6 April 2003.