Within the cinema of India, the following is a List of Kannada films of 2005.
A good year for Kannada films, Shivanna's Jogi clinches the top spot with smashing box office records and a cult status.
Puneeth's hit, Aakash sharing alongside Ramya whose another film Amrithadhare bought in good numbers. Critically, Beru that started H.G Dattatreya and Neethu won the National Film Award for Best Kannada Film, Tara bringing the National Award for Best Actress for Haseena and Shanti starring Bhavana making it to the Guiness Book of World Records had the industry proud with major recognitions.
However, new talents from the refreshing super hit film, Nenapirali made Prem an overnight star with leading ladies Vidhya Venkatesh and Varsha getting their big break.[1]
| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Music Director | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J A N | 7th | Nanage Neenu Ninage Naanu | Anitha Subramanya | Rakesh | Romance | |||
| 14th | Maharaja | Sudeep, Nikita Thukral, Ashok | Action | |||||
| Mahasadhvi Mallamma | Renuka Sharma | Sri Sailam | Drama | |||||
| 21st | Rishi | Comedy / Drama | ||||||
| Zabardast | Ram Bharath Devan | Bhushan Kumar, Rashmi Kulkarni | Gandharva | Romance | ||||
| Olave | P. H. Vishwanath | Vishal Hegde, Sandhya | B R Hemanth | Romance | ||||
| 28th | Surya The Great | Rushi | Ajay Rao, Shivani | Samson | Action | |||
| F E B | 4th | Yashwanth | Romance | |||||
| 11th | Ayya | Om Prakash Rao | Action | |||||
| Encounter Dayanayak | Sachin, Spoorthi | Action / Crime | ||||||
| 18th | Shadyantra | Rajesh Murthy | Harish Raj, Namratha | Prakash Sontakki | Drama | |||
| Udees | Mayur Patel, Sonali Joshi | Venkat Narayan | Action | |||||
| M A R | 4th | Beru | Suchendra Prasad, Neetha, H. G. Dattatreya, T. N. Seetharam | Praveen Kiran | Drama / Documentary | |||
| Aadi | M. S. Ramesh | Action | ||||||
| Shanti | Drama | Guinness record film | ||||||
| Hendathiyobbalu Maneyolagiddare | V. Umakanth | Abhi | Comedy | |||||
| Gadipaar | S. S. David | Charanraj, Vinod Alva | M S Maruthi | Action | ||||
| 18th | Moorkha | A. N. Jayaramaiah | Comedy | |||||
| Inspector Jhansi | H. Vasu | Prema, Anand | Dilip Sen - Sameer Sen | Action | ||||
| 25th | Ranachandi | B. R. Keshav | Prema, Naveen Mayur, Shobharaj | M. S. Maruthi | Action | |||
| Rakshasa | Action | |||||||
| A P R | 1st | Jootata | N. S. Shankar | Comedy | Remake of Malayalam film Poochakkoru Mookkuthi [2] | |||
| Kashi from Village | Sudeep, Rakshita, Harsha, Bank Janardhan, Sathya Prakash | Action | [3] | |||||
| 8th | Preethisu | Siddaraju | Vishal Hegde, Ashwini | Teja | Romance | |||
| 15th | Navabharathi | K. Ganesh | Sourav, Usha Kiran | Raj Bhaskar | Romance / Drama | |||
| 22nd | Varsha | Drama | Remake of Malayalam film Hitler [4] | |||||
| 29th | Aakash | Mahesh Babu | Action / Romance | |||||
| M A Y | 6th | Karnana Sampathu | Shantaram Kanagal | Guru | Action | Re-released | ||
| 13th | Gunna | Dwarki | Mahesh | Action | ||||
| 20th | Mr. Bakra | Vasanth | Comedy | [5] | ||||
| 27th | Aham Premasmi | Romance | ||||||
| J U N | 3rd | Gowramma | Upendra, Ramya, Ramesh Bhat, Srinivasa Murthy | Drama | Remake of Telugu film Nuvvu Naaku Nachav | |||
| 10th | Shastri | Action | [6] | |||||
| 17th | Nan Love Madthiya | Venkatswamy | Romance | |||||
| Magic Ajji | Khushbu, Sudharani, Ramesh Bhat, Master Tejas | Aadhi | Fantasy / Horror | [7] | ||||
| Yaake | V. Rajendra Kumar | Raghav, Divya Gowda | M N Krupakar | Mystery | ||||
| 24th | Giri | Ravicharan | Srinagar Kitty, Preethi, Muni, Shobha | Comedy | ||||
| Ugra Narasimha | Surya | Action | [8] | |||||
| O Gulabiye | Narendra Babu | M. N. Krupakar | Romance | |||||
| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Music Director | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J U L | 1st | Sye | Arun Prasad | Action | ||||
| Hudgeeru Saar Hudgeeru | Lingaraj Kaggal | Mohan Shankar, Sangeetha Shetty | S. P. Chandrakanth | Comedy | ||||
| 8th | Masala | Sadhu Kokila | Romance / Comedy | |||||
| 22nd | Siddu | Mahesh Sukhadhare | Action | [9] | ||||
| 29th | Valmiki | M S Ramesh | Action | |||||
| A U G | 4th | News | M. K. Maheshwar | Action | [10] | |||
| 5th | Mental Manja | Sai Sagar | Arjun, Sheetal Ramachandran, Srinath, Girija Lokesh | Sai Sagar | Drama | |||
| 12th | Thunta | Romance | ||||||
| Siri Chandana | Rajkishore | Suryavardhan, Chethan | Drama | |||||
| Abhinandane | N. Ramachandra Rao | Ramkumar, Sudharani, Anu, Yeshwanth | Drama | |||||
| 19th | Jogi | Shivrajkumar, Jennifer Kotwal, Arundhati Nag, Ramesh Bhat, Sanket Kashi | Action / Drama | |||||
| Green Signal | Eeshwar Balegundi | Ajay Rao, Ashitha, Vishal Hegde, Ashwini | Venkat Narayan | Romance | ||||
| 26th | Deadly Soma | Action | [11] | |||||
| S E P | 2nd | Live Band | B. R. Keshav | Nagesh Mayya, Sneha | M. N. Krupakar | Adult drama | ||
| 9th | Auto Shankar | Action | ||||||
| Namma Basava | Veera Shankar | Action | ||||||
| Yauvana | Jayasimha Musuri | Nithin, Lakshmi Musuri | Gopi Krishna | Adult romance | ||||
| 16th | Amrithadhare | Drama / Romance | ||||||
| Haseena | Tara, Chandrahasa Alva | Issac Thomas Kottukapally | Drama | Based on novel by Banu Mushtaq | ||||
| 23rd | Boyfriend | D. R. Jana | K M Indra | Romance / Drama | ||||
| 30th | Swamy | M. S. Ramesh | Action | |||||
| - October! | O C T | 7th | Samarasimha Nayaka | Lingaraj Kaggal | M. N. Krupakar | Action | ||
| 21st | Shambu | Dwarki | Ramesh Krishnan | Romance | [12] | |||
| 24th | Hai Chinnu | Shivaji Rao Ghorpade | Nithin, Mohini Patel | Gopi Krishna | Romance | |||
| N O V | 4th | Anna Thangi | Family Drama | |||||
| 18th | Nammanna | N. Shankar | Action | [13] | ||||
| Lathi Charge | B. Ramamurthy | Gopi Krishna | Action | |||||
| 26th | Love Story | Bharati Kannan | Mayoor Patel, Tanu Roy, Komal Kumar, Nizhalgal Ravi, Pramila Joshai | Romance | Remake of Hindi film Ek Duuje Ke Liye | |||
| Good Bad Ugly | Tiger Prabhakar, Nisha | Adult romance | ||||||
| D E C | 2nd | Nenapirali | Romance | |||||
| 9th | Rama Shama Bhama | Kamal Haasan, Ramesh Aravind, Shruti, Urvashi, Daisy Bopanna, Aniruddh | Gurukiran | Comedy | Remake of Tamil film Sathi Leelavathi | |||
| 16th | Sakha Sakhi | Comedy / Romance | Remake of Tamil film Thiruda Thirudi | |||||
| 23rd | Vishnu Sena | Drama | Remake of Tamil film Ramanaa | |||||
| 30th | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar | Sharan Kumar Kabbur | Biopic | |||||
| Pandu Ranga Vittala | Comedy | |||||||