Tananam Tananam

Tananam Tananam is a 2006 Indian Kannada romantic musical drama film directed and written by Kavitha Lankesh. The film has Ramya and Rakshita teaming up together for the first time, and introduces Shaam, a Tamil actor, to Kannada cinema, in the lead roles.[1][2] The film was produced by N. M. Suresh and based on a Tamil short story written by Kalki.

Tananam Tananam
DVD cover
Directed byKavitha Lankesh
Produced byN. M. Srinivas
Written byKalki
StarringRamya
Rakshita
Shaam
Music byK. Kalyan
CinematographyA. C. Mahendran
Edited byM. N. Swamy
Production
company
Sri Thulaja Bhavani Creations
Release date
  • 24 November 2006 (2006-11-24)
Running time
139 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

The film released on 24 November 2006 to average and negative feedback from critics. The film eventually failed to live up to the initial hype and the director's reputation at the box-office. Despite the failure, the film won two Filmfare Awards in Best Actress and Best Lyricist categories. Noted violinist L. Subramaniam was roped in to play violin bits in the film. The film premiered at International Film Festival of India upon release.[3]

Cast

Production

Bangalore based Tamil actor Shaam was cast as the hero while the leading Kannada actresses Ramya and Rakshita were cast as the heroines.[4] Kavitha Lankesh also admitted that the story was inspired from a Tamil short story penned by Kalki.[4] The classical music notes that comes in the film scenes have been tuned by acclaimed violinist L. Subramaniam.[5] Girish Karnad was cast as Ramya's father.[6]

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed and lyrics written by K. Kalyan. The title track won him the Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist - Kannada for the year 2006.

Tananam Tananam
Soundtrack album by
K. Kalyan
Released2006 (2006)
GenreFeature film soundtrack
LabelAshwini Audio
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Kande Kande Govindana"K. KalyanK. S. Chithra, Ajay Warrior 
2."Cheluvantha Rajakumari"K. KalyanKunal Ganjawala, K. S. Chithra 
3."Chapparisu"K. KalyanMalgudi Subha, Hemanth Kumar 
4."Koogalatheya Dooradalli"K. KalyanS. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra 
5."Kalitha Hudugi"K. KalyanGururaj Hosakote 
6."Preethi Endarenu"K. KalyanKunal Ganjawala 
7."Tananam Tananam"K. KalyanK. S. Chithra 

Awards
  1. Best Actress - Ramya
  2. Best Lyricist - K. Kalyan
  • South Indian Cinematographers Association
  1. Best Actress - Ramya[8]

Release

A critic from Rediff gave the film a rating of one-and-half out of five stars and stated that "But halfway through Tananam Tananam, you realise Kavitha Lankesh has derailed the story, and nothing really works in favour of the film".[9]

References
  1. "Actor Shaam made his Kannada debut with the film Tananam Tananam". Times of India. 5 February 2018.
  2. "'Tananam Tananam' - new film by Kavita Lankesh having Ramya, Rakshita and Shyam in the lead". www.viggy.com.
  3. "`You can't carry your ego to the sets'". The Hindu. 2 December 2006.
  4. "'Every film is a work of art'". ia.rediff.com.
  5. "Tananam Tananam - a film by Kavita Lankesh". Viggy.com. 2005.
  6. "'Girish Karnad spoke his mind'". Deccan Herald. 11 June 2019.
  7. "54th Filmfare Awards South Winners". Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  8. "Ramya has won! - Times of India". The Times of India.
  9. "Tananam Tananam disappoints". Rediff.com. 28 November 2006.
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