Kasturi Nivasa

Kasturi Nivasa
Directed by	Dorai-Bhagavan
Produced by	K. C. N. Gowda
Written by	G. Balasubramanium
Screenplay by	Dorai-Bhagavan
Starring	Rajkumar K. S. Ashwath Jayanthi Aarathi
Music by	G. K. Venkatesh
Cinematography	B. Dorairaj Chettibabu N. G. Rao
Edited by	Venkataram Kalyan
Production company	Anupam Movies
Release date	1971 (1971)
Running time	152 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada
Budget	₹ 3.75 lakh

Kasturi Nivasa (Kannada: ಕಸ್ತೂರಿ ನಿವಾಸ, House of Fragrance) is a 1971 Indian Kannada drama film directed by the duo Dorai-Bhagavan. It stars Rajkumar as Ravi Varma, an extremely generous man, who succumbs to his intention of being generous no matter what happens. It also features Rajashankar, Jayanthi, K. S. Ashwath and Aarathi in supporting roles. The film was later remade in Hindi as Shandaar (1974) starring Sanjeev Kumar and in Tamil as Avanthan Manithan (1975) starring Sivaji Ganesan.

The film is considered a milestone in Kannada cinema and in the career of Rajkumar. It was successful at the time of its release and completed a 100-week run at 16 theatres across the erstwhile Mysore State (now Karnataka). In 2014, the film completed colourisation and colourised version released on 7 November 2014.

Ravi Varma (Rajkumar), owner of a matchbox factory is a widower and has lost his daughter in an accident. Recognizing that his honest employee Chandru is in a similar position, he decides to help Chandru financially. As Chandru attends training in the U.S., Ravi takes care of Chandru's charming daughter. On return, Chandru suggests changing the company's structure. The traditionalist Ravi, becomes infuriated. Protesting this, Chandru resigns and starts his own matchbox company and becomes the leading matchbox manufacturer.

This begins Ravi's downfall, his charity and donating activities have eaten up profit and ends up putting his house on sale. Chandru calls for the highest bid and wants to give it back to Ravi, but being the man that he is, Ravi would not accept. Chandru has already got Neela (Jayanthi), his ex-secretary on whom Ravi had a crush on, and now Ravi's house.