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Gowri (1963)

Gowri poster
Directed by
S.K. Ananthachari
Country
India
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A man and a woman navigate love and hardship in a story adapted from a Telugu film. The movie is known for being the first Kannada film to set existing Kannada poems to music.

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What happens

Gowri () is a 1963 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by S. K. A. Chari and produced by K. Narayan Rao. The film stars Sowkar Janaki, Rajkumar, Dr. C.V. Subbarao ("Shashikanth"), and Sandhya. The film has a musical score by G. K. Venkatesh. This was the first Kannada movie to adapt already written Kannada poems into movie songs. The movie was remade from the 1952 Telugu movie Daasi with a few modifications in the plotline. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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