Kula Gourava

Kula Gourava
Kula Gourava
	Bharathi ; Jayanthi
Cinematography	P. S. Prakash
Edited by	P. Bhaktavatsalam
Music by	T. G. Lingappa
Production; company	Sri Eswari Productions
Release date	1971;
Running time	164 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Kula Gourava (transl. Honour of clan) is a 1971 Indian

Bharathi and Jayanthi.^[1] The film was produced under Sri Eswari Productions of N. Veeraswamy. It had a very successful soundtrack composed by T. G. Lingappa. Popular actor-director V. Ravichandran, son of the film producer Veerasamy, appeared in the film as a child artist. The film swept 5 awards at the 1970-71 Karnataka State Film Awards

including the best film, best actor, and best editor categories.

The movie was Rajkumar's first movie in which he played a triple role.It is also his only black and white movie where he played a triple role.The movie was remade in Telugu in 1972 as Kula Gowravam starring N. T. Rama Rao and Aarathi with Jayanthi reprising her role.^[2] It was also remade in Tamil in 1974 as Kula Gowravam starring R. Muthuraman and Jayasudha with Jayanthi reprising her role again.^[3]^[4]

Cast

Rajkumar as Raghunatha Rao / Ravi (Chandrashekharaiah) / Shankar
Jayanthi as Kala
Bharathi as Radha
Narasimharaju as Gopu
Balakrishna
as Raghunatha Rao's personal secretary
M. N. Lakshmi Devi as Meenakshi
B. Jaya as Parvati
Mahadevappa
Sampath
as Thimme Gowda
R. Nagendra Rao as Kala's grandfather (cameo)
Ramamurthy
V. Ravichandran as young Shankar (credited as Master Ravichandran)
C. R. Sampath Kumaran
Indira Jorge

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed by

Vijaya Narasimha.^[5]

Track list

#	Title	Singer(s)
1	"Ondu Maathu Ondu Maathu"	P. B. Sreenivas, P. Susheela
2	"Naa Haadabeke"	P. B. Sreenivas
3	"Ye Hudugi Ye Bedagi"	P. B. Sreenivas, P. Susheela
4	"Yaare Bandavanu"	P. Susheela
5	"Raga Ninnadhu Bhaava Nannadu"	P. Susheela
6	"Naavikanaaro"	P. Nageshwara Rao