| Ajantha | |
| Director: | Rajppa Ravishankar |
| Producer: | Rajppa Ravishankar |
| Story: | Elora Movie Club inc., |
| Starring: | Ramana Venkatesh Vinu Mohan Sai Kiran Honey Rose Vandana Gupta |
| Music: | Ilaiyaraaja |
| Cinematography: | Ilavarasu |
| Studio: | Elora Movie Club Inc |
| Country: | India |
Ajantha is an Indian film produced and directed by Rajppa Ravishankar. The film was simultaneously shot in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu languages with different starcast.[1] The lead role was played by Venkatesh in Kannada, Vinu Mohan in Malayalam, Ramana in Tamil and Sai Kiran in the Telugu versions, respectively.[2] Honey Rose was female lead in the Malayalam and Kannada version while Vandana Gupta played the female lead in the Tamil and Telugu versions.
Ilaiyaraaja composed the music and Ilavarasu was the cinematographer for the film.[3] The filming started in 2006 and took three years to complete.[4] The Kannada version was released on 30 October 2009,[5] the Malayalam version was released on 19 July 2012, and the Tamil version was released on 9 November 2012.[6] The Telugu version is yet to release.
Singer Anand falls in love with blind Ajantha who is need of a surgery. Anand meets with an accident. How he recovers and funds Ajantha's operation forms the rest of the story.[7]
| Actor (Kannada) | Actor (Malayalam) | Actor (Tamil) | Role | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venkatesh | Vinu Mohan | Anand | |||
| Honey Rose | Vandana Gupta | Ajantha | |||
| Sai Kiran | Dr. Aravinth | ||||
| Aniyappan | Su. Senthil Kumaran | Anand's friend | |||
| Anand | Sriman | Singer | |||
| Vijay Babu | Mamukkoya | Vijay Babu | Music director | ||
| Honnavalli Krishna | Pandiarajan | ||||
| Kundara Johny | |||||
| Bank Janardhan | Kalabhavan Santhosh | Manobala | Producer | ||
| Mandeep Roy | Salim Kumar | Madhan Bob | |||
| Dingri Nagaraj | — | Balu Anand | |||
| Rajppa Ravishankar | Special appearance | ||||
| K. Sivasankar | Special appearance | ||||
| Ajantha | |
| Type: | Soundtrack |
| Artist: | Ilaiyaraaja |
| Released: | 2008 |
| Recorded: | 2007 |
| Genre: | Feature film soundtrack |
| Language: | Kannada Malayalam Tamil Telugu |
| Chronology: | Ilaiyaraaja |
Ilaiyaraaja recorded a record-breaking 36 songs for the film in a week.[8] [9] The audio was launched in August 2008.[10] Ilaiyaraaja won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director of 2009 for the film.[11]
Regarding the Tamil version, a critic from Dinamalar wrote that the film is devoid of major twists and that the music is the saving grace.[17]