Muthina Haara (1990)

Infobox Film
film = Muthina HaaraDirected by S.V.Rajendrasingh BabuProduced by Rohini Pictures Starring Vishnuvardhan
Suhasini
AswathMusic by Hamsalekha Release 1990Language Kannada

Muthina Haara is an award winningFact|date=July 2008 Kannada movie was released in 1990. It is a tragedy and it has some strong imagery that speaks of the toil of warfare on the soldier. It's songs are still very popular.Fact|date=July 2008

Background

The movie is set in the 40s,50s and 60s. The protagonist is a Coorg soldier who fights in WWII and in the Indian wars against Pakistan and China.

Plot

Achappa (Vishnuvardhan) is a soldier from Madikeri who is injured while the Second World War is raging. In the hospital he meets an army nurse (Suhasini) who is also from Coorg. After the War both get married in Madikeri.Achappa goes back to the army and his wife lives with her inlaws. She has Achappa's son but she becomes barren after giving birth. The son is named Viraj but Achappa hasn't seen him as he hasn't had a break from the Army. India becomes indedependent and partitioned.Achappa is stationed on India's border in Rajasthan. Meanwhile Viraj is a couple of years old and Achappa longs to see him.So his wife and son travel to meet him. But then tension breaks between India and Pakistan along the Border. Viraj becomes a casualty even before his father gets to see him. Achappa and his wife are aggrieved,she becomes an army nurse again. Despite his wife's insistence Achappa refuses to remarry for the sake of procuring an issue.They remain faithful to each other and live like this as years pass by. Achappa becomes an Army Major and he trains young army men in the army institute of Dehradun. One day Achappa's aged parents from Mercara come to live with him. They have been kept in the dark about Viraj's death all the while and so they long to see their grandchild. When they come to know the truth Achappa's unwell mother can't bear the shock and she dies. Meanwhile the Indo-China War breaks out and Achappa is sent to the border with his troop. Achappa and his troop are captured by the Chinese aggressors and tortured. But Achappa remains loyal and doesn't reveal what his Chinese interrogators want.Among his troop is a young,promising soldier (Ram kumar) whom Achappa treats as his own son. They both manage to escape into the Indian border but are mortally wounded. Achappa dies there while his protege dies in the army hospital. Achappa's corpse has a war hero's funeral honoured by the country,but his wife loses her sanity.The title, meaning a string of pearls, stands for what Achappa promises his wife; every year he buys a pearl and gives it to her with the hope that one day she can make a necklace of it. She does get her pearl necklace complete but only to have it broken on Achappa's funeral.

Cast

*Vishnuvardhan as Achappa the armyman
*Suhasini as his wife
*Aswath as his father

Crew

*Director - S.V.Rajendrasingh Babu
*Producer - Rohini Pictures
*Music - Hamsalekha

Songs

*Devaru Hoseda Premada Daara Singer : Balamuralikrishna M
*Huliya Halina Mevu Singer : Balasubrahmanyam SP, Chithra K S
*Kodaginolu Singer : Balasubrahmanyam SP
*Madikeri Sipayee Singer : Balasubrahmanyam SP, Chithra K S
*Saroo Saroo Miltry Saroo Singer : Balasubrahmanyam SP

External links

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