Kannada films have their own place in Indian cinema.The borth of the kannada film industry in 1934 coincide with the release of sati sulochana, the first kannada talky.
The growth of the kannada film industry can be attributed to veterans like Nagathilli chandrashekhar,Girish Kasaravalli,T.S. Nagathbhara and M.s. Sathyu.On the hiyest pedestal of the industry hoewer, stands film star Rajklumar.He started off as Mutturaju,a theatre artist ,and was discovered by HLN Simha.He soon rose to legendary status and began to be addressed as annavaru meaning "big brother" in Kannada.His popular movies are Bangarada Manushya,Gandhadha Gudi,Kasturivasa,Sannadi Appanna,Babruvahana,Shankar- Guru and Akasmiks.Rajkumar has been conferred the Dada Saheb Phalke,the Padmabhushana and the Karnataka Ratana awards.
The 1970s and the 1980s proved to be the golden age of Kannada cinema.This era saw the rise of alternate cinema or parallel cinema as we know it.In Kannada cinema ,the parallel movement was spearheaded by Girish karnad, B.V. Karanth and Girish kasaravalli.This was also the time when Nagara Havu introduced a new style of film making to bridge the gap between commercial and parallel cinema.
In 2005 ,film like jogi,Anna Tangi ,Namma Basava,Amruthadhara ,Deadly Soma and Nenapirali proveds to be box-office hits.Surprisingly though,the following year saw promising flick like Shree,Math and Shuban bomb at tehe box-office.
With the multilingual and cosmopolitian factor in mind,Bangalore theatres screen not only regional flicks but also Hindi and Hollywood films.
Recently ,there has been a shift towards making English films either in Bangalore or set in Bangalore.Stumble is one such film directed by Prakash Belawadi.Freaky Chakra,Mango Souffle and 20 plus are other English films made here.
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