Sati Sulochana (1934)

Directed by

Yaragudipati Varada Rao

Genre

folklore

Country

British Raj

Runtime

2h 53m

Elsewhere

IMDb

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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is the first Kannada-language talkie film. It adapts a story from folklore about a devoted wife and her trials. The film is now lost but is remembered for its many songs.

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What happens

Sati Sulochana () is a 1934 Indian Kannada-language film directed by Y. V. Rao. The film was released on 3 March 1934 and is the first talkie film in Kannada language. It is also the first film to be screened in the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom. It is a lost film. Though initially it was believed that the movie had 18 songs, a gramophone record jacket found in private archives showed that the movie had as many as 30 songs belying the notion that the first four Kannada talkie movies had no recorded sound tracks. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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