Sati Sulochana

Not to be confused with Sati Sulochana, 1961 Telugu film, starring N. T. Rama Rao.

Sati Sulochana
Directed byYaragudipati Varada Rao
Screenplay byBellave Narahari Shastri
Based onRamayana
by Valmiki
Produced by
Starring
Music by
Production
company
Prabhat Studio
Release date
  • 3 March 1934 (1934-03-03)
Running time
173 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

Sati Sulochana (Kannada: ಸತಿ ಸುಲೋಚನ) is a 1934 Indian Kannada-language film directed by Y. V. Rao. The film was released on 3 March 1934 and is the first talkie film in Kannada language.[1][2][3] It is also the first film to be screened in the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom.[4]

It is a lost film.[5] Though initially it was believed that the movie had 18 songs, a gramophone record jacket found in private archives showed that the movie had as many as 30 songs belying the notion that the first four Kannada talkie movies had no recorded sound tracks.[6]

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  3. ^ "A revolutionary filmmaker". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 22 August 2003. Archived from the original on 17 January 2004.
  4. ^ "First film to talk in Kannada". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 31 December 2004. Archived from the original on 4 January 2005. Retrieved 21 April 2007.
  5. ^ Sinha, Sayoni (26 August 2017). "Mending the moving image: South India's cinematic heritage has seen huge loss". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  6. ^ Khajane, Muralidhara (3 March 2019). "An attempt to retell history of Kannada's first talkie - The Hindu". The Hindu.