Preethse

Preethse
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Directed by	D. Rajendra Babu
Written by	Somaraj (dialogues)
Screenplay by	D. Rajendra Babu
Story by	Honey Irani and Yash Chopra
Produced by	Rockline Venkatesh
Starring	Shiva Rajkumar Upendra
Cinematography	P. K. H. Das
Edited by	Shyam Yadav
Music by	Hamsalekha
Production company	Rockline Entertainments
Distributed by	Ramu Films
Release date	2000 (2000)
Running time	147 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Preethse (transl. Love Me) is a 2000 Indian

When Kiran reaches home, she is continually stalked by Chandra on the phone. This causes much stress to herself and her family. He crashes Kiran's family's Holi celebrations incognito as a member of the band. Surya asks Kiran to offer the band some money for their performance, where Chandra, veiled in Holi colours, whispers "I love you, K-K-K-Kiran" to Kiran, which disturbs her greatly and a foot chase ensues to find the hooligan who's invaded their house, but Chandra soon disappears into the crowd.

When Chandra receives the news of Kiran and Surya's engagement, he tries to shoot and kill Surya when the couple is out shopping for a wedding ring. He misses his aim and Surya begins to chase him, from which Chandra narrowly escapes being recognized by Surya.

Kiran and Surya get married, but Chandra still refuses to give up on Kiran. He defaces the newly married couple's home with graffiti declaring his love, causing more distress to them. To get away from the stalker, Surya takes Kiran on a surprise honeymoon to Switzerland. Learning their location through devious means, Chandra turns up at their hotel in the Alps. Kiran recognizes him from college and the couple welcomes him to be part of their festivities. That very evening, Surya finds out from Kiran's brother that Chandra is the one who has been Kiran's stalker all along. He sends Kiran away on a boat and confronts Chandra. Chandra tries to run, but Surya catches up with him in a forest where they have a fight. Chandra stabs Surya with a knife after feigning surrender, and leaves him for dead. He then goes to the boat and tries to forcefully abduct Kiran, he wants to marry Kiran without her consent. But Surya comes back and brutally beats Chandra. While surya beating Chandra Kiran tells Surya to kill Chandra which will give her peaceful life. Those words will make Chandra realise that only his death will give Kiran a peaceful and happy life. He then proceeds to shoot himself with a gun and dies by saying "I LOVE YOU K-K-K-K-KIRAN". Kiran and Surya then return to India and reunite with their family.

Cast

• Shiva Rajkumar as Commander Surya, Kiran's fiancee (later husband)
• Upendra as Chandru, Kiran's obsessed lover
• Sonali Bendre as Kiran, Surya's fiancee (later wife)
• Anant Nag as Vijay, Kiran's brother
• Vanitha Vasu as Poonam, Vijay's wife and Kiran's sister-in-law
• Srinath as Admiral - Chandru's father
• Tharakesh Patel
• K. V. Manjayya
• Bank Suresh

Production

It marks Sonali Bendre's debut Kannada film and also reunited

The songs are composed by Hamsalekha. The song "preethse preethse" became famous.

Soundtrack

• "Holi Holi" -
  Chitra, Anuradha Paudwal
• "Preethse Preethse" -
  Hemanth Kumar
• "Sye Sye Preethsye" - Hariharan, Anuradha Paudwal
• "Surya Obba" - Anuradha Sriram, Suresh Peters
• "Yaar Ittaree Chukki" - Hariharan, Anuradha Paudwal
• "Yaaru Illa" - Suresh Peters

Reception

A critic from Rediff.com wrote that "On the whole, if you can switch your mind off these concerns and are just looking for an afternoon of mindless entertainment, full of loud music, melodrama, passion and fantasy, this movie is worth watching".^[6][7]

References

External links

• Preethse at
  IMDb