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Auto Shankar is a 2005 Indian Kannada-language action comedy film starring Upendra, Shilpa Shetty, and Radhika Kumaraswamy.[1][2] The film was directed by D. Rajendra Babu and produced by Ramu, of Ramu Enterprises. The films tells about Shankar an autorickshaw driver belonging to a middle-class family who gets into a conflict with Maya, a money-lender. However, tables turn when she loses her property and they fall in love.

Auto Shankar
Directed by	D. Rajendra Babu
Written by	B. L. Venu Tushar Ranganath (Dialogues)
Screenplay by	Ajay kumar
Story by	Ajay kumar
Produced by	Ramu
Starring	Upendra Shilpa Shetty Radhika Kumaraswamy
Cinematography	H.C. Venu
Edited by	T. Shashikumar
Music by	Gurukiran
Production company	Ramu Films
Release date	9 September 2005 (2005-09-09) (India)
Running time	170 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada

The film was dubbed in Tamil as Aanavakari, in Hindi as Shilpa - The Big Don in 2007,[3] and in Malayalam as Sarappa Sundari. The film was remade in Bangladeshi in 2017 as Ohongkar thereby becoming the sixth Kannada film to be remade in Bangladeshi as well as the sixth Kannada movie to be remade in a foreign language after Anuraga Aralithu, Appu, Kothigalu Saar Kothigalu, Appayya and Bachchan.[4]

Synopsis

Shankar is a middle class autorickshaw driver. He is friendly and jovial. Maya, a money-lender, is brought up in a rich family. She is portrayed as a boorish character. She is unscrupulous in recovering loans given to the poor and has designed crude methods to recover the money. She is also the daughter of a lady don.

Shankar defends the poor and fights the moneylenders. Several interesting battles follow, after which the Maya loses all her property and prestige. It is also revealed that she is not really the daughter of the lady don. She then learns a lesson that reforms her attitude. She makes amends and Shankar embraces her as the two fall in love rest forms the plot of the story.

Cast

Production

As the director wasn’t healthy during the majority of the shoot, Telugu cinema's renowned associate director Shiva Ramakrishna, an associate of Puri Jagannadh, directed the songs and fight sequences and major portions of Shilpa Shetty. The movie was filmed in a variety of locations including Austria, Finland, the Bangalore Palace, and the Mysore Lamps Factory, Mysore.

Box office

Auto Shankar successfully ran for 100 days. The film was released at the same time as the Puneeth Rajkumar starrer Namma Basava and there was a fierce competition between the two films. Both the films were successful at the box office,[5][6] but Auto Shankar turned out to be more successful than Namma Basava. Shilpa is still known for her villainous performance in the film.

Soundtrack

The music is composed by Gurukiran.

The music of the song "Ready Ready" was used in the Telugu film Nagavalli and the music was given by Guru Kiran.

Song title	Singers
"Kabaddi Kabaddi"	Rajesh Krishnan, Malathi
"Kachhi Kachhi"	Udit Narayan
"Line Hodi"	Malgudi Subha, Guru Kiran
"Raja Muddu Raja"	S. Janaki, P. B. Sreenivas
"Ready Ready"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
"Yen Madlo"	Sundar

Controversy

The film sparked off a controversy with regard to a movie poster depicted a glamour still of Shilpa Shetty from the film. A Madurai based lawyer filed an obscenity case against Shetty. Shetty however, protested by saying that "It (the photo) is not vulgar. I am an actor and an entertainer and I won't endorse vulgarity".[7]

References

External links

• Auto Shankar at IMDb
• Preview of the film
• Review of the film

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