Gandhada Gudi
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DVD cover of the movie
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| Directed by | Vijay |
| Produced by | M. P. Shankar |
| Screenplay by | Vijay M. D. Sundar |
| Story by | M. P. Shankar |
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| Music by | Rajan-Nagendra |
| Cinematography | D. V. Rajaram |
| Edited by | Bal G. Yadav |
| Distributed by | Bharani Chithra |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Kannada |
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Soundtrack cover
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| Soundtrack album by Rajan-Nagendra | |
| Released | 1973 |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
| Length | 12:30 |
| Label | Saregama |
Gandhada Gudi (Temple of Sandalwood) is a 1973 Indian Kannada-language film directed by Vijay and produced by M. P. Shankar. The film stars Rajkumar in lead role. Vishnuvardhan appears in a villainous role, though his character is redeemed at the end of the film. A similar film was then made in Telugu in 1977 as Adavi Ramudu, starring N. T. Rama Rao. In 1979, it was remade in Hindi as Kartavya. Because of Gandhada Gudi's success, a sequel was made in 1995 with Shivrajkumar as the lead, titled Gandhada Gudi Part 2. The film was seen as a milestone in the careers of both Rajkumar and Vishnuvardhan.
Kumar (Rajkumar) is a range forest officer who goes to the Nagarhole National forest to protect the natural resources. His main rival is the poacher Anand (Vishnuvardhan) who unknown to him has been kidnapped and raised by Raja Venkatappa Naika (Balakrishna) to exact revenge on his father. In the final scenes, Anand gets hold of Kumar's mother and asks him to not interfere or that he will set fire to the forest. But Kumar shoots Anand, fatally injuring him in the chest. Venkatappa then comes in climax and reveals that Anand is Kumar's younger brother and he had done this to take revenge on his family. He tries to kill Kumar, but Anand kills venkatappa and dies on the lap of his mother.
The film has brilliant cinematography of the Nagarhole and Bandipur forest in Mysore which is the birthplace of Vishnuvardhan. The entire cast has given excellent dimensions to their role especially Vishnuvardhan who was acting in his third movie in a negative character.
During the shooting of the film where Vishuarvadan's character "shoots" Rajkumar's character's mother, the prop gun was accidentally switched to a real gun by Phabakaran, a forest ranger who realized someone took the gun. Just as Vishnuvardhan was about to pull the trigger, Phabakaran begged for him to stop. The incident caused trauma for Vishuvardan and the family used to receive threatening calls and abuse from Rajkumar's fans. Despite this, both Rajkumar and Vishuvardhan remained on good terms afterwards.
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