From ‘Premaloka’ to ‘Ranadheera’: Ravichandran’s top 5 musical hits

Crazy star Ravichandran is also known as ‘The Show Man’ in Kannada film industry. He created different trends in the industry through his film ‘Premaloka’. He has also been the one who has introduced various actresses to the industry. Ravichandran has a huge contribution towards movies of romantic and music genre. Here we take a look at his top five musical hits of Ravichandran.

‘Premaloka’ was one the biggest hit in the career of Ravichandran. ‘Premaloka’ is considered a multilingual romantic musical film. Ravichandran made his directorial debut with this movie. Hamsalekha has composed music for this movie which has some immemorial songs like ‘Geleyare Nanna Gelathiyare- Hogona Collajige’, ‘Yarivanu’ ‘Premalokadinda’ and others. The movie initially had a slow start, but later it picked up and went on to reportedly become a box-office hit.

‘Kindari Jogi’ is another musical hit which got much more fame to Ravichandran. Ravichandran has given one of his best performances in this movie. The songs of this movie had created the right hype for the movie even before its release. The music was composed by Hamsalekha, and the songs ‘Gange Baare Thunge Baare’, ‘Ooru Uddara Madtheenantha’, ‘Chendina Baale’ were sung by SP Balasubrahmanyam and S Janaki.

The music of ‘Ramachari’ was composed by Hamsalekha and he remained and played a major role in composing music for Ravichandran. ‘Ramachari’, who is a worker falls in love with a rich girl, Hamsalekha. Their feelings and the love is beautifully picturised through some soulful music. ‘Yaarivalu Yaarivalu’, ‘Aakashadaage Yaaro’ ‘Kaadiruve Ninagaagi’, ‘Nammoora Yuvarani’ and others are still fresh in the minds of people and are still considered evergreen in the industry.

This movie took Ravichandran’s musical movies to another level. This movie was again directed by Ravichandran himself and had Kushboo in the female lead. The film has music by Hamsalekha. The song ‘Preethi Maadabaaradu’ shows a glimpse of some great love stories like ‘Laila-Majnu’, ‘Romeo-Juliet’.

‘Preethsod Thappa’ is a romance-musical drama which caught the attention of every other industry. After the release, the movie became one of the music blockbusters in Kannada film industry. Hamsalekha again composed music for this movie. ‘Raja Raja’, ‘Bangaradinda Bannana’ and ‘Sone Sone’ are some of the superhit songs in the movie.