Narayan Shastri

With a tight screenplay, Chup is one of the best thrillers. However, the filmmakers blundered by not requesting Sonu Nigam to sing "Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaaye To Kya Hai" - he would have done justice to this song!

An extremely hilarious film! I will not write anything more. You must go to YouTube and watch it for yourself. This film is perhaps a turning point in Anant Nag's film career, since he excelled in a comic role.

I cannot find words to describe this film. Dhananjaya, who appeared in negative roles in a couple of films prior to this, excels as "Ratnakara" the middle-class guy, striking a chord with the common man. Umashree acted well as the foster mother and her "mullhandi mundegandi" scolds bring out laughter. Pramod Panju leaves a mark as Udaal Baburao. If a DVD were released, I would buy it as a collector's item.

It was an enjoyable film, though not preachy, and sheds light on life with a sprinkle of humour, which is more evident in the dialogues. Two songs "Asadullah" and "Burudi Buddhi" are memorable.

Good series, but I have never read or heard about Rama just pulling back the bow string and the arrows appear out of thin air. In Ramayan (1987) Rama draws arrows from his quiver and then launches it with deadly accuracy. Lord Shiva is depicted as the narrator (telling Rama's story to Goddess Parvati), but I cannot say this is an incorrect depiction.

With "Ganeshana Maduve" (1990) and "Gauri Ganesha" (1991) making the audience rolling over with laughter and achieving unprecedented success, many thought "Ganesha Subrahmaya" (1992) would offer a similar content. However, this film ought to be classifed as a "drama" rather than a "comedy" that tells us not to paint all men and women with the same brush, as the the character "Vasantha" advises Ganesha (Anant Nag) towards the end of the film. All the main characters - Anant Nag, Ramesh Bhat, Bank Janardan, Mukhyamantri Chandru, debuting actresses Manasa (real name Shobha), Sujata Krishnan and Chandrika have acted their parts very well, but Manasa steals the show with her softening-up act on Ganesha. V. Manohar has composed five songs of which "Hendatiyobbalu maneyolagiddare", "O Kusuma Baale" and "Brahmachari" are memorable. Since this film was released in the pre-Internet age, the box-office fate of this film is not known. If the audience just treat this film as a drama rather than comedy, the film would have met their expectations.

Although the film was the usual love triangle with good music, many people apparently did not like Shafi Inamdar being cast as the villain. Shafi had at that time gained immense popularity in households across India through "Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi'. Kamal Haasan once again did his tragic hero role and won the Filmfare Award for the Best Actor.