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Jenu Goodu (1963)

Jenu Goodu poster
Directed by
Y. R. Swamy
Country
India
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A family drama set in 1960s India. It follows characters dealing with relationships and personal conflicts. The story originally comes from a novel and was made as several films in different languages.

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What happens

Jenu Goodu ( transl. Beehive) is a 1963 Indian Kannada language film directed by Y. R. Swamy and produced by T. Vasanna and S. Heera. The film stars K. S. Ashwath, Udaykumar, Rajashankar and Pandari Bai in lead roles. Jayanthi and Chandrakala made their Kannada debuts with this film. The musical score was composed by Vijaya Krishnamurthy. The film is a remake of the 1954 Bengali film Bhanga Gara, which was based on the novel Bijila by Prabhavathi Devi Saraswathi. The Bengali film was also remade in Tamil as Kula Dheivam and in Hindi as Bhabhi. Pandari Bai reprised her role in the Tamil and Hindi versiona, but not in the Bengali original. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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