Budhivanta
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Country India | Director Ramnath Rigvedhi Language Kannada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 26 September 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Budhivanta (translation: Intelligent) (also known as Buddhimanthudu in Telugu) is a 2008 Kannada language film starring Upendra in the lead role. It was directed by Ramnath Rigvedhi. It is a remake of the Tamil film Naan Avanillai. It was released on 26 September 2008. The film was supposed to be released on Upendras birthday, 18 September 2008, but because of the delay in censor certification, the release date got postponed to 26 September 2008. It became the highest grossing Kannada film of 2008 and turned out to be a much bigger hit than the original Naan Avanillai. Upendras performance in 7 different roles and his dilogue delivery was praised by the critics and the audience.
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Karnataka
The film was the highest grossing Kannada film of 2008, by collecting more than ?150 million at the box office. It completed 100 days screening in more than 25 centres all over Karnataka.
Andhra Pradesh
The Telugu version of the film was released as Budhimanthudu in Andhra Pradesh. It completed 50 days of run and did decent business at the box office across Andhra Pradesh.
Music
The Soundtrack of Budhivantha got an amazing response upon its audio release and turned out to be one of the best selling albums of the year. The official soundtrack contains seven songs composed by Vijay Antony with the lyrics primarily penned by Kaviraj and Upendra. The audio of the film was released on 18 June 2008, three months before the release of the film. The album was released by Times Music.