Tananam Tananam

Vanaja ( ) loves Shankar ( ), but he loves Bhavani ( ), an actress from a travelling theatre group. When Bhavani turns him down, Shankar turns to alcohol and becomes a victim of a tragedy. Leading Kannada actresses and co-starred in this film and Bangalore based Tamil actor was cast after other actors rejected the role. also admitted that the story was inspired from a Tamil short story penned by . The classical music notes that comes in the film scenes have been tuned by acclaimed violinist . was cast as Ramya’s father. The music of the film was composed and lyrics written by . The title track won him the for the year 2006. A critic from gave the film a rating of one-and-half out of five stars and stated that “But halfway through , you realise Kavitha Lankesh has derailed the story, and nothing really works in favour of the film”. A critic from gave the film a negative review and cited that “nothing is right about “. A critic from opined that “Kavitha Lankesh, touted to be an intelligent director, this time falls flat with as the film lacks a new story and the film is lengthy and slow moving”.