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Wikipedia article
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| name = Mast Maja Maadi
| image = Mast Maja Maadi.png
| director = R. Ananth Raju
| producer = Soundarya Jagadish
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| music = P. B. Balaji
| cinematography = M. R. Seenu
| editing = Tirupati Reddy
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| distributor =
| released =
| country = India
| language = Kannada
| runtime = 160 minutes
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'Mast Maja Maadi' is a 2008 Kannada comedy-romance film directed by R. Ananth Raju featuring Sudeep, Vijay Raghavendra, Diganth, Naga Kiran, Komal and Jennifer Kotwal in the lead roles. The film features background score and soundtrack composed by P. B. Balaji and lyrics by K. Ram Narayan. It is a remake of the 2007 Hindi comedy film 'Dhamaal', with the opening sequences copied from the 2006 comedy 'Golmaal: Fun Unlimited'. This film stars the highest number of guest roles in recent times. Sudeep's role is also supposed to be a guest appearance in the film. Upendra turns item boy for this film; he dances with 12 heroines for an end credits song in the style of Shah Rukh Khan's 'Om Shanti Om'.
Plot
'Mast Maja Maadi' is the story of four good-for-nothing, unemployed youngsters in search of treasure hidden in a place in Ootys Botanical Gardens. Apart from them, a cop is also eyeing the treasure. The youngsters attempts to get the treasure all to themselves and the hurdles they face in their mission form the crux of the story
Cast
* Sudeep as ACP Pratap
* Vijay Raghavendra as Ramu
* Diganth as Kamesh
* Naga Kiran as Shyam Bhatatei
* Komal as Mylaari
* Jennifer Kotwal as Sahana
* Rangayana Raghu as Somanath Tantri, Kamesh's father
* Umashree as Keerthi Bedi, Police Commissioner
* Sadhu Kokila as Bond DK
* Tennis Krishna
* Sihi Kahi Chandru as Samarasimha Reddy
* R.N.Sudarshan as Moneylink Shastry
* Nagashekar
* Shankar Rao as College Principal Bekupa - Bedarahalli Kumarappa Son Palakshappa
*Bullet Prakash as Hari Navarathan
*R. Anantharaju
*K. Ram Narayan
*Bangalore Amjad Khan
*Mandeep Rai
* Shantamma
Guest roles
Following actors and actresses appear as themselves in the song "Shakalaka Bhoom"* Upendra
* Rekha Vedavyas
* Sharmila Mandre
* Sanjjanaa
* Sherin
* Gowri Munjal
* Suman Ranganathan
* Ragini Dwivedi
* Aindrita Ray
* Keerthi Chawla
Soundtrack
The music was composed By P. B. Balaji and released by Akshaya Audio.
Release and reception
'Mast Maja Maadi' released on 12 December 2008 in India.
'Bangalore Mirror' opined that "Set aside your thinking cap and just enjoy maadi". R. G. Vijayasarathy of 'Rediff.com' wrote that "Mast Maja Maadi is a timepass film if you like comedy".
References
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