Film & Celeb News  ‘Sankranthi’ – old wine in boring bottle
Film: “Sankranthi”; Cast: Gururaj, Roopashri, Sreenivasa Murthy,
Shankar Aswath, Master Hirannaiah, Bhavya, Vijaya Kashi, Mandya
Ramesh, B.V. Radha, Mallesh, Shankara Patil, Skanda; Screenplay-
Director: Mussanje Mahesh; Producer and Story: R.S. Gowda;
Music: Sreedhar Sambhram; Camera: Cinetech Soori; Dialogues:
B.A. Madhu; Rating: *  “Sankranthi”, produced by R.S. Gowda,
should have been made nearly four or five decades ago as the
storytelling pattern, mannerisms of artists, technical work and
even the music compositions remind you of the films of the 1960s
and 1970s.  “Sankranthi’ ends up as 150 minutes of unbearable
torture. Everything starting from the story, narrative, song
picturisation and dialogue delivery is old-fashioned. The so-
called comedy sequences are just buffoonery and end up
irritating the viewer.  Sadly, it is poorly made despite the
presence of a large number of artists. Also, its illogical
presentation has many loopholes.  In the