Sandalwood

 

The section of Indian cinema devoted to the creation of films in the Kannada language, which is extensively used in the state of Karnataka, is referred to as Sandalwood or Chandanavana. The first talkie Kannada movie was Sati Sulochana, directed by Y. V. Rao, which came out in 1934. It was also the first movie to include Subbaiah Naidu and Tripuramba, and it was shown for the first time in the former Mysore Kingdom. Chamanlal Doongaji, who created South India Movietone in Bangalore in 1932, produced the movie.

The Kannada screen has adapted major literary works like B. Chomana Dudi (1975), based on Shivaram Karanth's Chomana Dudi, Kaadu (1973), by Girish Karnad, based on Srikrishna Alanahalli's Kaadu, Pattabhirama Reddy's Samskara (1970), which received the Bronze Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, and T. Mysuru Mallige by S. Nagabharana (based on the works of poet K. S. Narasimhaswamy).

Kannada cinema is renowned for its experimental works, including Girish Kasaravalli's Ghatashraddha (1977), which took home the Ducats Award at the Manneham Film Festival in Germany,[18] Dweepa (2002), which took home the Best Film prize at the Moscow International Film Festival, Singeetam Srinivasa Rao's silent film Pushpaka Vimana (1987), Ram Gopal Varma's docudrama Killing Ve According to reports, Kannada cinema ranked fourth in India during the period of January to August 2022 with an 8% market share in domestic box office receipts. The top five Kannada films of 2022 reportedly earned 1800 crores in their first ten months of release.