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'Auto Shankar' is a 2005 Indian Kannada-language action comedy film starring Upendra, Shilpa Shetty, and Radhika Kumaraswamy. 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.

The film was dubbed in Tamil as 'Aanavakari', in Hindi as 'Shilpa - The Big Don' in 2007, 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'.

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



* Upendra as Auto Shankar

* Shilpa Shetty as Maya

* Radhika Kumaraswamy

* Sudharani

* Bhavya

* Srinivasa Murthy

* Sumithra

* Gurukiran

* Avinash

* Srinivas Prabhu

* Ramesh Bhat

* Ashok Rao

* Lakshman Rao

*Doddanna

*Rangayana Raghu

* Thara Anuradha

* Ashalatha

*Telangana Shakuntala

* Mohan Raj

* Rajashekhar Kotian

* Mohan Juneja

* Maarimutthu Sarojamma

* Shanthamma

* H. M. T. Nandha

* Padma Vasanthi

*Sadhu Kokila

*B. Jayamma

* Bangalore Nagesh

* Dileep

* M. N. Suresh

* Pailwaan Venu

Production



As the director wasnt 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, 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.

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".

References






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