Ekangi

<p>Raja( ) leaves happy life with his father’s principles. Once he visit bar and meets Shilpa ( ) and falls love with her. His life gets trouble when he invite her to his house. For the film, a multi-storeyed glass house was built just for the film at a cost of 80 by art director Ashok, it was an unusual experiment by the director and producer at the time, considering that a similar house was erected even for Ravichandran’s previous film . The set which consists of “huge hall, a bar, a table tennis room, two bedrooms and others” was built at Kanteerava Studios by 100 workers within 40 days. Close to 80% of the film’s scenes were filmed in the house. EFX sound system was employed in the film for the first time in Kannada cinema and second overall. composed the film’s background score, soundtracks and also wrote the lyrics for the tracks. The album consists of nine soundtracks. The album was released in 28 October 2001, at Jilla playground in , at an event. The event was also shown live in . The album was received well by critics upon release. But, for the lyrics, the album received appreciation. Amritamati S. of reviewed the album and called it, “Symphonic grandeur on dumb lyrics”. She added writing credits to the solo , bits and the play among other highlights of the album. She concluded writing, “The quality of recording is excellent. Full marks to the string ensemble, and to the other instrumentalists. But you will be disappointed if you look for poetry, or even the street-smart variety of verse that Hamsalekha specialises in.” 2001-02 Following the film’s first theatrical release and a hostile response from the audience, close to 20 scenes of the film were re-shot and re-edit before giving it a re-release, a first of its kind in Kannada cinema. wrote “The problem with Yekangi is its wafer thin storyline and the film turns out to be dragging”. Having suffered from huge losses after the film failed commercially, Ravichandran took the blame for the film’s failure. In an interview with in December 2004, speaking of the film’s failure, he said “it shattered him mentally and physically.” The failure of the film influenced him hugely and his style of .</p>