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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Parashuram<br />
| image = Parashuramfilm.jpg<br />
| caption = Film poster<br />
| director = [[V. Somashekhar]]<br />
| producer = [[Parvathamma Rajkumar]]<br />
| writer = T. N. Narasimhan<br />
| screenplay = T. N. Narasimhan<br />
| starring = [[Rajkumar (actor)|Rajkumar]]<br>[[Puneeth Rajkumar]]<br>[[Mahalakshmi (Kannada actress)|Mahalakshmi]]<br>[[Vani Viswanath]]<br />
| cinematography = H. G. Raju<br />
| editing = P. Bhaktavatsalam<br />
| studio = Dakshayini Combines<br />
| music = [[Hamsalekha]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|1989}}<br />
| runtime =<br />
| language = [[Kannada]]<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Parashuram''''' is a 1989 Indian [[Kannada language|Kannada]] film directed by [[V. Somashekar]] and produced by [[Parvathamma Rajkumar]]. The film starred [[Rajkumar (actor)|Rajkumar]], [[Mahalakshmi (Kannada actress)|Mahalakshmi]] and [[Vani Viswanath]] in lead roles.<ref>[https://www.filmibeat.com/kannada/movies/parashuram.html Parashuram (1989) Movie cast & crew]</ref> This was V. Somashekhar's last movie with Rajkumar, who incidentally started his directing career with Rajkumar's ''[[Bangaarada Panjara]]'' (1974). Also this was last movie of [[Puneeth Rajkumar]] as a child actor, who later returned as a fully fledged hero in the movie ''[[Appu (2002 film)|Appu]]'' (2002). The film's score and soundtrack was composed by [[Hamsalekha]].<ref>[https://kannadamoviesinfo.wordpress.com/2012/12/25/parashuram-1989/ Parashuram – ಪರಶುರಾಮ್ (1989/೧೯೮೯)]</ref><br />
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== Plot ==<br />
Major Parashuram ([[Rajkumar (actor)|Rajkumar]]) is an ex-army man running a private security agency. He is a happy-go-lucky person married happily to Usha ([[Vani Viswanath]]), and leads a happy life with his son. He deals with a case where an actress is abducted and the film's producer seeks Parashuram's help. He befriends Appu ([[Puneeth Rajkumar]]), who is a slum-dweller.<br />
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Parashuram comes across an organized crime syndicate, headed by MD, and supported by Purohit, Kulkarni and Nayak. MD is powerful enough to placate governments. He runs short of money to fund the election campaign and gets his mafia network to double the monthly roll-call. It is then, Parashuram gives a good beating to MD's hooligans. MD is impressed with Parashuram, that someone at last is able to give him a fight. He invites Parashuram and expresses his wish that Parashuram work for him. Parashuram rejects it outright and walks away. MD threatens to punish and hatches a plan to destroy him.<br />
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On Parashuram's son's birthday, MD gets Parashuram's son kidnapped. After all efforts to trace the child are done with, Parashuram guesses it must be MD who has abducted his son. He calls up MD and shouts to get him his son back. Just then a box arrives for Parashuram, which contains his son's right hand. When Parashuram speaks back to MD, MD asks Usha to collect her son's body near their house gate.<br />
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When the child is rushed to hospital, MD succeeds in getting the child killed. Parashuram is suffering under intense grief, when the attending nurse says he has a phone-call. MD cajoles him and says Parashuram would lose his mental balance and says he has lost his wife too. Parashuram finds his wife is being dragged away and MD's henchmen throw her from the hospital roof. Usha dies immediately, leaving Parashuram alone. With the help of a press reporter and Appu, ex-armyman Parashuram takes the law into his own hands, and starts killing MD's men one after the other, hacking them with a "[[parashu]]" (a weapon of Sage [[Parashurama]]).<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Rajkumar (actor)|Rajkumar]] as Parashuram<br />
* [[Mahalakshmi (kannada actress)|Mahalakshmi]] as actress Malini<br />
* [[Puneeth Rajkumar]] as Appu<br />
* [[Vani Viswanath]] as Usha<br />
* [[C. R. Simha]] as Purohhit T.<br />
* Ashok Rao as Rajiv Malhotra "MD"<br />
* [[Dheerendra Gopal]] as Ullagaddi Basappa<br />
* [[Prithviraj (Kannada actor)|Prithviraj]] as N. Kulakarni<br />
* [[Doddanna]] as M. K. Nayak<br />
* T. N. Narasimhan<br />
* [[Sudheer (Kannada actor)|Sudheer]]<br />
* [[Jaggesh]] as M. Shivaraj's son<br />
* [[Vijay Raghavendra]] in a song<br />
* Srisailan<br />
* [[Thoogudeepa Srinivas]] as M. Shivaraj<br />
* Suneel Puranik as Sunil Kumar, Nanjundaiah's son<br />
* [[Sadashiva Brahmavar]] as Appu's grandfather<br />
* [[Bank Janardhan]]<br />
* [[Negro Johnny]]<br />
* [[Dingri Nagaraj]]<br />
* Aravind<br />
==Box office reception==<br />
The movie was a box office ''superhit'', owing to its gripping story line and action sequences. However the critical reception of the movie was mixed and many considered it to be below average for the usual Rajkumar standards.<br />
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==Soundtrack==<br />
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| name = Parashuram<br />
| type = Soundtrack<br />
| artist = [[Hamsalekha]]<br />
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[[Hamsalekha]] composed the background score for the film and the soundtracks. Lyrics for the soundtracks were penned by [[Chi. Udaya Shankar]], [[T. P. Kailasam]] and Hamsalekha. The album consists of five soundtracks.<ref>[https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/parashuram/McdxlN3kYRA_ Parashuram songs (1989)]</ref> Singer [[Swarnalatha]] was introduced to Kannada film industry through this soundtrack. The song "Nagutha Nagutha Baalu" was received extremely well upon release.<br />
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{{tracklist<br />
| headline = Tracklist<br />
| extra_column = Singer(s)<br />
| total_length = 23:15<br />
| title1 = Thandana Thandana<br />
| lyrics1 = [[Hamsalekha]]<br />
| extra1 = [[Rajkumar (actor)|Rajkumar]], [[Manjula Gururaj]]<br />
| length1 = 04:55<br />
| title2 = Nagutha Nagutha Baalu<br />
| lyrics2 = [[Chi. Udaya Shankar]]<br />
| extra2 = Rajkumar<br />
| length2 = 04:45<br />
| title3 = Eleya Mareyali<br />
| lyrics3 = Chi. Udaya Shankar<br />
| extra3 = Manjula Gururaj<br />
| length3 = 04:16<br />
| title4 = Saradaara Baa Baalina<br />
| lyrics4 = Hamsalekha<br />
| extra4 = Rajkumar, [[Swarnalatha]]<br />
| length4 = 04:37<br />
| title5 = Kadre Thappu Kondre Thappu<br />
| lyrics5 = [[T. P. Kailasam]]<br />
| extra5 = [[Puneeth Rajkumar]]<br />
| length5 = 04:42<br />
}}<br />
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==Sources==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{IMDb title|14485326}}<br />
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{{V. Somashekhar}}<br />
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[[Category:1989 films]]<br />
[[Category:1989 action films]]<br />
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