Gandondu Hennaru

1969 Indian film

15 March 1969 (1969-03-15)

Running time

155 minCountryIndiaLanguageKannada

Gandondu Hennaru (transl. One man and six women)^[1] is a 1969 Indian Kannada-language film, directed and produced by B. R. Panthulu. The film stars Rajkumar, Bharathi Vishnuvardhan, Narasimharaju and Mynavathi. The film has musical score by T. G. Lingappa.^[2]^[3] The movie was remade in Tamil in 1972 as Raman Thediya Seethai.

Plot

A man visits a happy elderly couple who advise him that a wife must have 6 good qualities. These qualities help her build a happy family. He searches for a woman with those qualities. After being tricked and turned around, he finds his soulmate and returns to get the blessings of the elderly couple.

Cast

Rajkumar as Anand Rao
Bharathi Vishnuvardhan as Veena / Malathi
Narasimharaju as Dikki
Mynavathi as Seetha
T. N. Balakrishna
Ramadevi
Dinesh
Premalatha
H. R. Shastry as Shankara Bhat
Renuka
Hanumanthachar
Suguna
P. Gundu Rao
Muguru Jejamma
Ganapathi Bhat as Mahadevaiah
Nagappa
Comedian Guggu
B. R. Panthulu
Puttaswamy
Narayana Rao
M. P. Shankar as Kodanda
Ranganath
Siddaramaiah

Soundtrack

T. G. Lingappa composed all the tracks. All songs became hits.

Track listing
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)
1.	"Beladingalagi Bande"	G. V. Iyer	P. B. Srinivas, S. Janaki
2.	"Kaarina Samyora"	G. V. Iyer	L. R. Eswari
3.	"Bande Nee Bande"	Vijayanaarasimha	P. B. Srinivas
4.	"Bangara Nota Balina Thota"	Vijayanaarasimha	L. R. Eswari, P. B. Srinivas
5.	"Muttabeda Maathadabeda"	Vijayanaarasimha	Bangalore Latha, P. Nageswara Rao
6.	"Karyeshu Dasi"	Sanskrit verse	P. Leela

Reception

The movie saw a theatrical run for more than 100 days and ran over 125 days in STATES theater Bangalore.

References

^ "'One man-6 women' to '7 Khoon Maaf'". 8 March 2019.
^ "Gandondu Hennaru". chiloka.com. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "Gandondu Hennaru". nthwall.com. Archived from the original on 16 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2015.