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Santha Shishunala Sharif is a film of genre Biography directed by T. S. Nagabharana with Shridhar
Santha Shishunala Sharif (1990)
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Add to a movie listSantha Shishunala Sharifa (Kannada: ಸಂತ ಶಿಶುನಾಳ ಶರೀಫ) is a 1990 Indian Kannada biographical drama film directed and co-written by T. S. Nagabharana and produced by Srihari Khoday and Mahima Patel for Yajaman Enterprises. The story is based on the life of acclaimed saint poet Shishunala Sharif who wrote several moral poems striving towards the social reformation. A collection of Sharif's poems are set to tunes by C. Ashwath who has also done the major playback singing. The soundtrack consisting of 16 poems was extremely popular upon release. The dialogues for this movie was wrtitten by Gopala Wajapayi, a well known theatre and transaltor of Brecht Play The Caucasian Chalk Circel as ' Dharmapuriya Shwetha Vrutta published in 2013.
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The film's cast comprised Sridhar in the titular role along with Girish Karnad, Suman Ranganathan and H. G. Dattatreya among others.
The film was widely appreciated by critics and audience upon release. It went on to win Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration. The film also received multiple Karnataka State Film Awards including Best Film, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories.
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