Abhi (film)

Abhi
DVD cover
Directed by	Dinesh Babu
Written by	Dinesh Babu
Produced by	Parvathamma Rajkumar
Starring	Puneeth Rajkumar Ramya
Cinematography	Dinesh Babu
Edited by	S. Manohar
Music by	Gurukiran
Production company	Poornima Enterprises
Release date	25 April 2003 (2003-04-25)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada
Box office	16 crores

Abhi is a 2003 Indian Kannada language romantic comedy film written and directed by Dinesh Babu. It stars Puneeth Rajkumar and Ramya, making her debut,. Veteran Kannada actor Rajkumar sang a soundtrack for the film composed by Gurukiran. The film was remade in Telugu as Abhimanyu starring Kalyan Ram with Ramya reprising her role.

Plot

Abhi (Puneeth Rajkumar) is a cool guy who is good at cultural activities. Bhanu's (Ramya) family approaches Abhi's family in search of a rental house. In the beginning, there is hatred between them, but then they start to know each other. As Bhanu is a Muslim and Abhi is a Hindu, Bhanu's father does not agree for this and he eventually comes in search of Bhanu's lover to thrash him. Abhi does not agree with her father's behavior. In college they start to fight with each other. Bhanu comes to stop them and tells that he's her father. Bhanu's father vacates the house and they all leave for Hubli. Abhi with his friends goes in search of Bhanu in Hubli. Somehow Abhi manages to talk with bhanu as their family does not know that he was the lover. Abhi and Bhanu hug in front of their family, then they will come to know that those two were lovers. The old lady in Bhanu's house advises Abhi to leave the house immediately as the men from that house will be coming from mosque after the prayer. But Abhi asks why should he be scared of them, the old lady tells him that they will try to kill you. Abhi asks why and the old lady says that ask your mother. Abhi goes to Bangalore and ask his mother about that matter what that old lady told. Abhi's mother tells him a flashback story about his real parents and their assassination. She will also reveal that she was not his real mother. Bhanu also will hear the same story from her grandma. After some days Bhanu decides to give up her love for her family's sake and she leaves Hubli and goes to Bangalore to tell this to him. He also agrees with her. But Bhanu's father thinks that she ran away to marry Abhi and he tries to kill him. Then there will be fight between Abhi and Bhanu's father. The old lady advises Bhanu's father to stop his cruelty. He realizes his mistake and allows Bhanu to marry Abhi.

Cast

• Puneeth Rajkumar as Abhishek "Abhi"
• Ramya as Bhanu
• Sowcar Janaki as Bhanu's grandmother
• Sumithra as Janaki Sudarshan, Abhi's mother
• Umashree as Haseena Begum
• Sathyajith as Mohammad Khan
• Enagi Nataraj
• Raju Ananthaswamy
• Honnavalli Krishna
• Vaijanath Biradar
• Hulivana Gangadharaiah as Abdul Ghaffar Khan
• B. Jaya as Radha
• Shailaja Joshi as Mohammad Khan's wife
• Kavya Prakash
• Suneel Puranik as Joseph
• Rekha V. Kumar as Ruksana Bano
• Gundu Rao
• Sridhar
• Bharath Bhagavathar as Sub-inspector as Saif Ali
• Nagaraj
• Guruprasad
• Mahesh
• Sundaresh
• Tumkur Mohan

Production

The film is produced by Parvathamma Rajkumar for Poornima Enterprises banner.

Soundtrack

Abhi
Soundtrack album by Gurukiran
Released	June 2007
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
External audio Official Audio Jukebox on YouTube

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Mama Mama Maja Madu"	Hamsalekha	Puneeth Rajkumar	4:12
2.	"Sum Sumne"	Bangiranga	Udit Narayan, Sowmya Raoh	3:53
3.	"Ee Nanna Kannane"	K. Kalyan	Udit Narayan, Mahalakshmi Iyer	5:07
4.	"Vidhi Baraha"	K. Kalyan	Dr. Rajkumar	4:30
5.	"Bittaku Guru"	V. Nagendra Prasad	Shankar Mahadevan, Chetan Sosca	4:45

Release

The film ran for 150 days and collected 16 crores at the box office.

External links

• Abhi at IMDb