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Playback vocalist and euphony manager Naveen Sajju’s acting debut, Lo Naveena, premiered astatine a multiplex successful Mysuru connected Thursday evening and received a thumbs-up from the audience, which included his friends and well-wishers.
Shot mostly successful a agrarian mounting successful and astir his autochthonal colony of Ballekere successful Srirangapatna taluk adjacent Mysuru, the movie depicts colony life, its radical and their regular routines with authenticity. It besides blends cleanable drama with romance to support the assemblage amused and entertained throughout.
Ms. Varsha Giridhar, a techie-turned-actor who plays other Naveen, blends comfortably into the agrarian backdrop, portion astir of the supporting actors look to person been hand-picked from villages for their circumstantial roles.
Naveena’s friends and their antics successful the movie are relatable not lone to present-day youth, but besides to earlier generations. The cinematography captures the agrarian ambiance — whether it is simply a cattle shed, a temple oregon a colony location — successful an unvarnished manner. The Kannada dialect, too, is unmistakably 1 from agrarian parts of Mandya and surrounding regions.
Coming astir 3 years aft the merchandise of Orchestra Mysuru — a movie purportedly inspired by his struggles arsenic a vocalist — Lo Naveena is described arsenic the culmination of Naveen Sajju’s acting dreams.
Senior theatre property Suguna M.M. of Niranthara Foundation said Naveen was smitten by the singing bug erstwhile helium was young. He began his singing vocation aft a agelong conflict to find opportunities successful orchestras that performed by the roadside during festivals and different occasions successful Mysuru.
He aboriginal made a sanction for himself arsenic a vocalist successful the Kannada movie industry, with his earthy dependable featuring successful the soundtracks of respective movies. But his involvement successful acting drew him to the theatre activities of Niranthara Foundation successful Mysuru. After participating successful respective plays and sharpening his skills arsenic an actor, Naveen has present forayed into acting, said Mr. Suguna.
Naveen, who was contiguous astatine the premiere on with the remainder of the formed and manager Dhanurdhari Pavan, said feedback from the Mysuru assemblage was precise important to him arsenic the metropolis was wherever helium grew up and began his singing vocation successful orchestras.
“If the assemblage successful Mysuru likes it, I deliberation I volition triumph successful the remainder of Karnataka arsenic well,” Mr. Naveen remarked.
