Dashavathara (film)

Dashavathara
Dashavathara
	Rajashankar; Narasimharaju
Cinematography	B. Dorairaj
Edited by	P. G. Mohan; Devendranath
Music by	G. K. Venkatesh
Production; company	Vikram Productions
Distributed by	Vikram Productions
Release date	26 October 1960;
Running time	175 min
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Dashavathara (transl. The Ten

Rajashankar and Narasimharaju. The film has musical score by G. K. Venkatesh.^[1] This film had its climax scene in Eastmancolor

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Cast

Udaykumar as Kamsa
Rajkumar as Jaya/Hiranyakashipu/Ravana/Shishupala
Rajashankar
as Vishnu and his avataras
Narasimharaju as Rahu/Makaranda
K. S. Ashwath
H. R. Shastry as Dharmaraya
Eshwarappa
Veerabhadrappa
H. K. Shastry
A. V. Subba Rao
M. Bhagavathar
Srikanth
Kashinath
Varadaraj
Kuppuraj
Rathnakar
Rajendrakrishna
Ganapathi Bhat
Keshavamurthy
R. Srinivasan
Girimaji
Leelavathi as Mandodari/Droupadi
Advani Lakshmi Devi as Seethe/Rukmini
Rajasree
M. Jayashree
Saroja
B. Jaya
Papamma as Shabari
Baby Suma
Lakshmikantham
Mala

Production

The song Godavaridevi Maunavaagi is more popularly known as Vaidehi Enadalo since the opening words never repeat again in the song. BS Ranga, who planned to shoot a summary of Ramayana via a separate song with actress Jamuna as Seetha, had asked music director GK Venkatesh to check about the availability of actress Jamuna and to verify on the status, he sent a telegram with minimum words - Vaidehi Enadalo (meaning what happened to Seetha). Seeing this, Venkatesh decided to use the words in the lyrics after he was impressed by that phrase.^[2]

Soundtrack

The music was composed by G. K. Venkatesh.^[3] The song Vaidehi Enadalo - which is in kandapadya style - is a rare instance in Indian cinema where a song is picturized on the character of Lord Rama singing for other character - whereas usually songs are mostly picturized with other characters singing in praise of Rama.^[4]

No.	Song	Singers	Lyrics	Length (m:ss)
1	Vaidehi Yenadalo	P. B. Srinivas	G. V. Iyer	04:18
2	Onde Balliya hoovu	S. Janaki, A. P. Komala	G. V. Iyer
3	Baare Radhike Kopa Ethake	L. R. Eswari (credited as Rajeshwari), S. Janaki, chorus	G. V. Iyer
4	Keshava Maadhava Govinda	P. B. Srinivas	Purandara Dasa	03:50