Santha Shishunala Sharifa
Santha Shishunala Sharifa
The film has won the Indian National Film Awards 1989 for Best Film on National Integration
Santha Shishunala Sharifa (Kannada: ಸಂತ ಶಿಶುನಾಳ ಶರೀಫ) is a 1990 Indian Kannada. A biographical drama film produced by SriHari Khoday under the banner “Yajaman Enterprises” and was directed by T.S.Nagabharana. The story is based on the life of acclaimed saint poet Shishunala Sharif, who wrote several moral poems striving towards social reformation. A collection of Sharif's poems are set to tunes by C. Ashwath, who also did the major playback singing. The album consisting of 16 poems was very popular. The dialogues for this movie was written by Gopala Wajapayi, a well known theatre personnel. The film's cast had Sridhar in the title role along with Girish Karnad, Suman Ranganath, H.G.Dattatreya, Hema Chaudhary and others. The film was widely appreciated by critics and audience.
The feature film has won the following awards
* Indian National Film Awards 1989
* National Film Award for Best Film on National Integration 1989-90
* Karnataka State Film Awards
* Karnataka State Film Award for Second Best Film
* Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor – Sridhar
* Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actor – Girish Karnad
CAST & CREW
Sharifa
Sridhar
Sridhar is an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry, and also a dance scholar, performer and choreographer, trained in Bharatanatyam. He also holds a degree in Engineering
Govinda Bhatta
Girish Karnad
Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Rhodes Scholar, who predominantly worked in South Indian cinema and Bollywood.
Fathima
Suman Ranganath
Suman Ranganath is an Indian model and actress. She has starred in Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi films. Ranganath debut was in the Kannada film Santha Shishunala Sharifa.
Imam Sab
H. G. Dattatreya
Wing Commander Harihar Gundurao Dattatreya AE(L) (Retd.) (born 1942), popularly known as Dattanna, is an Indian actor who has appeared in more than 204 films and several plays.
Hajju Maa
Hema Chowdhary
She is an Indian film actress who has predominantly acted in Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil films. Starting her career as a lead actress in the Telugu film Pelli Kani Pelli in 1976.
Director
T. S. Nagabharana
He is Indian film director, in the Kannada film industry and a pioneer of the parallel cinema. He is one of the few film directors to have straddled the mainstream and parallel cinema worlds.
Music
C. Ashwath
C Ashwath was an Indian music composer and exponent of Bhavageete ("expressive poetry") in the Kannada language. He was also a singer, and sang many of his own compositions.