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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Mahalakshmi<br />
| image = <br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| native_name = <!-- {{Infobox name module|language|title}} or {{Infobox name module|title}} --><br />
| director = Karthik Raghunath <br />
| writer = Rudramurthy Shastry (dialogue)<br />
| screenplay = Raja Venkataramanan<br />
| story = G. R. C. C. Katha Vibhaga<br />
| based_on = <!-- {{Based on|title of the original work|creator of the original work|additional creator(s), if necessary}} --><br />
| producer = K. Madanlal<br />
| starring = [[Ramesh Aravind]]<br />[[Kumar Govind]] <br />[[Shruti (actress)|Shruti]]<br />
| narrator = <br />
| cinematography = R. R. Rajkumar<br />
| editing = P. R. Sounder Rajan<br />
| music = N. Govardhan<br />
| studio = Gloria Rakesh Cine Circuit<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2001|2|16}}<br />
| runtime = <br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Kannada<br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = <br />
}}<br />
'''''Mahalakshmi''''' is a 2001 Indian [[Kannada]]-language [[romantic drama film]] directed by Karthik Raghunath and starring [[Ramesh Aravind]], [[Kumar Govind]] and [[Shruti (actress)|Shruti]] in the titular role. The film was released to negative reviews.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Mahalakshmi and Shyam are married, but Shyam is often busy with work. He dies in a car crash. To overcome her grief, Mahalakshmi works as a nurse and marries Ramanna a.k.a. Ram. Ram brings home Karna, an [[amnesia]] patient, whom Mahalakshmi suspects to be Shyam. What happens after Karna undergoes an operation and regains his memory forms the rest of the story.<ref name="I"/><br />
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== Cast ==<br />
{{Cast listing|<br />
*[[Ramesh Aravind]] as Shyam alias Karna<br />
*[[Kumar Govind]] as Ramanna a.k.a. Ram<br />
*[[Shruti (actress)|Shruti]] as Mahalakshmi<br />
*[[Srinivasa Murthy]] as Colonel A. S. Chandrashekar<br />
*[[Mandya Ramesh]] as Raju<br />
*Kumaraswamy Nayak as Rukmini's husband<br />
*[[Jayanthi (actress)|Jayanthi]] as Ram's mother<br />
*Ashalatha as Rukmini<br />
*[[Vanishree]] as Raju's mother<br />
}}<br />
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==Production==<br />
The director worked on several Tamil films for two decades before making his Kannada debut with this film.<ref name="C"/><br />
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== Soundtrack ==<br />
The music was composed by N. Govardhan,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kannadamoviesinfo.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/mahalakshmi-2001/|title=Mahalakshmi – ಮಹಾಲಕ್ಷ್ಮೀ|date=11 June 2013|work=Kannada Movies Info|access-date=13 May 2024}}</ref> who won the [[Karnataka State Film Award for Best Music Director]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2001/12/17/stories/2001121701550300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102014049/http://www.hindu.com/2001/12/17/stories/2001121701550300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-11-02 |title=Shivaraj, Tara, Anu bag State film awards |date=2001-12-17 |access-date=2011-11-11 |work=[[The Hindu]] |location=Bangalore, India}}</ref><br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Song<br />
! Singer(s)<br />
! Lyricist<br />
|-<br />
|"Thaala Mela"<br />
|Butto, [[Manjula Gururaj]] || rowspan="3"|T. Ramesh Rao<br />
|-<br />
|"Aakashadache"<br />
|[[Rajesh Krishnan]], [[Nanditha (singer)|Nanditha]] <br />
|-<br />
| "Kannu Kannu" || Ramesh Chandra, Nanditha <br />
|-<br />
|"Neenu Yaarendu Helalu"<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|"Haaruva Hakkige"<br />
|B. R. Chaya <br />
|Rudramurthy Shastry<br />
|}<br />
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==Reception==<br />
A critic from ''[[Chitraloka.com]]'' wrote that the director "fails to evoke the needed response. He has been fast in his narration but all that is not enough. His brilliance needed some more thought so that it could have been a slick film".<ref name="C">{{Cite web|url=http://www.chitraloka.com/english/knock_out/mahalaxmi.html|title=MORONIC MAHALAKSHMI|work=[[Chitraloka.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010412075955/http://www.chitraloka.com/english/knock_out/mahalaxmi.html|archive-date=12 April 2001|url-status=dead|access-date=10 May 2024}}</ref> A critic from ''indiainfo.com'' wrote that "All in all, ''Mahalaxmi'' is like watching a tele-film".<ref name="I">{{cite web |url=http://movies.indiainfo.com/kannada/reviews/index.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010207202613/http://movies.indiainfo.com/kannada/reviews/index.html | archive-date=7 February 2001 |title=Mahalaxmi |last=Sathyanarayana |website=indiainfo.com|access-date=10 May 2024|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*{{IMDb title|14728884}}<br />
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[[Category:Indian romantic drama films]]<br />
[[Category:2001 Kannada-language films]]<br />
[[Category:2001 Indian films]]</div>WECElbert296866