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Original name: Ondanondu Kaladalli
English name: Once Upon A Time
Year: 1978
Run Time: 156’
Language: Kannada
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: India
Director: Girish Karnad
Producer: G.N. Lakshmipathi, K.N. Narayan
Cast: Shankar Nag, Sunder Krishna Urs, Akshata Rao, Sushilendra Joshi
Screenplay: Krishna Basrur, Girish Karnad
Cinematographer: A.K. Bir
Editor: P. Bhaktavatsalam
Music Composer: Bhaskar Chandavarkar
Production Company: Lakshmipathy-Narayan Combines
Girish Karnad was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Rhodes Scholar, who worked in South Indian cinema and Bollywood. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s, marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada. He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India. He was active in the world of Indian cinema working as an actor, director and screenwriter. He was conferred Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan by the Government of India and won four Filmfare Awards.
A tribute to Kurosawa’s samurai stories, resurrecting a South Indian martial arts technique which survives mainly in the Kerala- based form of the Kalaripayattu. The film is set in 13th C. Karnataka during the Hoysala dynasty (AD1073-1327), when small princelings fought each other for domination, often hiring martial arts experts. Gandugali, the young warrior pitted against Permadi. As the film unfolds, we’re told to the tale of two warring brothers who have murdered their elder brother, and divided his kingdom equally between themselves.
