Maurya (film)

Maurya
Film poster
Directed by	S. Narayan
Written by	Puri Jagannadh
Based on	Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi by Puri Jagannadh
Produced by	Rockline Venkatesh
Starring	Puneeth Rajkumar Meera Jasmine
Cinematography	P. K. H. Das
Edited by	P. R. Sounder Raj
Music by	Gurukiran
Distributed by	Rockline Productions
Release date	22 October 2004 (2004-10-22)
Running time	162 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Maurya is a 2004 Kannada language sports drama film directed by S. Narayan. The film starred Puneeth Rajkumar and Meera Jasmine in lead roles. It was Meera Jasmine's first Kannada film. The film is a remake of 2003 Telugu film Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi which itself was based on the 1998 Hollywood movie Dance with Me. This film is produced by Rockline Venkatesh.

Plot

Manu's entire life is about his mother, Meena, a college lecturer. They together live in Banglore. When Chandu was a little boy, Lakshmi separated from her husband, Prathap, who is his father. Manu is a passionate and great kick-boxer. Manu later meets Alamelu Meera Jasmine aka Andra, a Talague girl from Andhra and starts to fall in love with her. Manu's happy life is suddenly jolted when his mother dies of a heart attack. On her deathbed, she tells him to go and meet Prathap, who is a kickboxing champion that won the championship six times in a row. Manu goes to Prathap.

When Manu meets his father but sees that he has another wife and a daughter named. He sees that he's happily settled with them and gets angry. He also gets a job as a janitor and juice provider at his father's kickboxing academy. Anand is Prathap's best student and he is sure that Anand will win the championship. Later, Manu finds out that Anand makes his step sister pregnant and then abandons her. Anand also abandons Prathap by getting another master and other sponsors. Prathap is attacked by several of Anand's sponsors and Manu later beats them up, making Prathap find out that Manu is a great kick-boxer. Prathap also finds out that Manu was also participating in the kick-boxing championship. The rest of the story is how Prathap trains Manu and wins the championship.

Cast

• Puneeth Rajkumar as Manu
• Meera Jasmine as Alamelu
• Roja as Meena
• Devaraj as Prathap
• Rekha Kumar
• Komal
• Doddanna
• Mandya Jayaram
• Shobaraj
• Jaidev as Anand
• Maithreyi Karthik
• Vijaya Sarathi
• Sundar Raj
• Ashok
• Jayalakshmi
• Kote Prabhakar
• Mukyamanthri chandru
• Yathi raj
• Aiyappa M.M
• V. K. Mohan
• Bank suresh
• Bhanu Prakash
• Sridhar Raj
• Venkatesh Prasad

Soundtrack

Maurya
Soundtrack album by Gurukiran
Released	15 June 2007
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
External audio Official Audio Jukebox on YouTube

The music of the film was composed by Gurukiran.

Track list

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Amma Amma I Love You"	S. Narayan	Shaan	4:14
2.	"Haadali Karunaadali"	V. Manohar	Udit Narayan, Lakshmi Nataraj	4:04
3.	"Machchalli Kochodalli"	Upendra	Puneeth Rajkumar	4:29
4.	"Pilla Pilla"	S. Narayan	Udit Narayan, K. S. Chitra	3:49
5.	"Simplallagi Helteen Kele"	S. Narayan	Puneeth Rajkumar	3:57
6.	"Usiraguve Hasiraguve"	K. Kalyan	Srinivas, Shreya Ghoshal	4:22

Box office

• The film successfully ran for 100 days in 16 centers of Karnataka and was 4th continuous 100 days for Power Star.

External links

• Maurya at IMDb