SMS 6260

2007 Indian film

2 February 2007 (2007-02-02)

CountryIndiaLanguagesKannada
English

SMS 6260 is a 2007 Indian Kanglish-language drama film directed by Sundeep Malani and starring Diganth and Jahnavi.^[1] The film ran for fifty days.^[2]

Cast

Diganth as Roshan
Janu as Janu
Danny as Krishna
Rahul as Karan
Arjun as Mahesh
Loy as Lal
Prithvi as Prithvi
Amithananda as Jay Darling
Smrti as Tina
Karen as Chrissy
Sony as Tressy
Dattanna
Jayalakshmi

Production

The film is directed by Sundeep Malani, who worked as an associate director for Miss California (2006) also starring Diganth and Janu.^[3] The film's lead characters talk to each other through SMS.^[2] The film was shot in thirty-five days.^[4] The film also features dialogues spoken in Bengali, Kodava, Gujarati, Hindi, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Tulu.^[5] The film was shot in Bangalore, Mangalore and Mysore.^[6]

Soundtrack

The songs are composed by Michael Dayao. Dr. Ravi Dattatreya and Lokesh-Prakash each composed one song each. The song "Nodamma Hudugi" from Premaloka (1987) was reused in the film.^[6]

Track listing
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Kannada Thayiya Madilalli"	Nagendra Prasad	Narayanan Ravindranarhan, K. S. Chithra	2:10
2.	"Lovers Rhyme"	Michael Dayao	Michael Dayao	3:02
3.	"Nodamma Hudugi"	Hamsalekha	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Latha Hamsalekha	5:13
4.	"Shiradi Saibaba Sthuthi"	—	Dr. Jumna Dhanapati	0:34
5.	"The Beautiful You"	Alex Yakolev	Gregory Cortsev, Elena Sylantieva	5:55
6.	"This Is Me"	Michael Dayao	Michael Dayao	2:56
7.	"This Is Me (Club Mix)"	Michael Dayao	Michael Dayao	3:22
8.	"SMS 6260"	—	Instrumental	1:00
9.	"Kannada Thaayiya Madilali"	Nagendra Prasad	Narayanan Ravindranarhan, Eshwar Prakash, Sandeep Malani, K. S. Chithra	5:33
Total length:				29:45

Reception

A critic from Filmibeat wrote that "It's a must watch for all the IT sector&software professionals, College youngsters and the class audience - not to forget, the kids of 6 years to the cross over of 60 years too".^[7] Film critic R. G. Vijayasarathy of IANS wrote that "Totally SMS 6260 can be a film for the new generation, though qualitatively it could have been improvised".^[8]

References

^ "'SMS 6260' at editing room". Indiaglitz. 12 December 2006. Archived from the original on 6 November 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
^ ^a ^b Viju (5 April 2007). "News headlines". Daijiworld Media. Archived from the original on 6 November 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
^ "'SMS' for fun and frolic..." Viggy. Archived from the original on 2022-11-06. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
^ "SMS 6260 complete". Indiaglitz. 4 December 2006. Archived from the original on 6 November 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
^ "New age film SMS 6260 to hit theaters in February of 2007". Business of Cinema. Archived from the original on 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
^ ^a ^b Vijayasarathy, R. G. (13 February 2007). "First Look: SMS 6260". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 6 November 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
^ "SMS 6260 review". Filmibeat. 16 July 2012. Archived from the original on 20 December 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
^ Vijayasarathy, R. G. (6 March 2007). "SMS 6260 Kannada Movie review". IANS. Archived from the original on 6 November 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022 – via Nowrunning.