'Tananam Tananam' - film by Kavita Lankesh

After a short gap Kavitha Lankesh is back with her latest venture 'Thananam Thananam' starring Ramya, Rakshitha and Shyam. This film is being produced by N M Suresh of the 'Excuse Me' fame. Shooting for this film has already begun in Abbai Naidu studio. Art director Ismail has erected two huge fine sets for the film.

Rakshita and Shyam

Usually all directors take love subjects in their early films. But its vice versa in the case of Kavitha. She never worked on run-of-the-mill subjects. Kavitha entered the film industry with an offbeat film 'Deviri'. She continued her journey with more such films. But for the first time she is handling a triangular love subject.

Kavitha assures that this won't be a routine love drama. 'Though it's a love story we are emphasizing more on human emotions. We will also tell the problems faced by the drama artistes these days. This film is based on the famous Tamil writer Kalki's short story. We have taken only the crux of that story and formed a beautiful script which would appeal to the audience worldwide' says Kavitha.

Kavitha says, this film revolves around the theatre and classical dance. So, she has added some popular elements of the theatre in this film. Theatre lovers would be delighted to hear that some scenes from Chandrashekara Kambara's 'Sambashiva Prahasana' and also some of the scenes from 'Koravanji' will be added here. And also a folk song called 'Kalitha Hudugi' will be seen here. Another speciality is Rakshitha for the first time, acting as a stage artiste in this film. She will be seen all those plays and for the first time will be seen in Menake and Koravanji getups.

Rakshita

Apart from Rakshitha, Ramya and Shyam, Jnanapeeth award winner Girish Karnad, Bharathi Vishnuvardhan, Lakshmi Chandrashekar, Sringeri Ramanna will also be seen in this film.

After a long time Girish Karnad is acting a Kannada film. 'These days I have stopped believing scripts. I just bank on the directors because I don't have much faith on the scripts. So, I just told Kavitha, if you really want me to act, I will definitely act. She has given me a good and challenging role. Though I am playing a music teacher role, it has got nothing to do with the role I did in 'Ananda Bhairavi'. This one is quite different from that role' concluded Girish Karnad.