Aa Karaala Ratri

Aa Karaala Ratri
Directed byDayal Padmanabhan
Written byMohan Habbu
Screenplay byDayal Padmanabhan
Dialogues by
Produced byD Pictures
Starring
CinematographyP. K. H. Das
Edited bySri CrazyMindzz
Music byR. S. Ganesh Narayanan
Production
company
D Pictures
Distributed byD Distributors
Release date
  • 13 July 2018 (2018-07-13)[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

Aa Karaala Ratri (transl. That Intense Dark Night) is a 2018 Kannada-language thriller film directed by Dayal Padmanabhan and produced under his own banner, D Pictures.

The movie is based on a Kannada play by Mohan Habbu which was translated from the tragic English play Lithuania by Rupert Brooke.[2][3] Karthik Jayaram was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 8th South Indian International Movie Awards. The movie won the 2018 Karnataka State Film Award for First Best Film.

In September 2020, director Dayal announced that he will be directing the Telugu remake of the movie which would be produced by Allu Aravind. The Telugu remake titled Anaganaga O Athidhi was directly released on the Aha.[4][5] He had also revealed that he would be directing the Tamil remake.[6] The Tamil version was titled Kondraal Paavam released in 2023.[7] The movie was also remade in Malayalam in 2023 as Pakalum Paathiravum [8] - thereby making it the fifth Kannada movie to be remade in three other South Indian languages after School Master, Sampathige Savaal, Devara Kannu and U Turn. Both the Tamil and Malayalam versions were released in March 2023 within one week.[9]

  1. ^ "Aa Karaala Ratri movie review: Celebs, critics give a thumbs-up for Dayal Padmanabhan's creation". IBTimes. 11 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Aa Karala Ratri: What happened when Bhagavan proposed the film to legendary filmmaker Rajkumar 40 years ago". Bangalore Mirror. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  3. ^ @sssmoviereviews (22 June 2020). "From play to film to book! The film#AaKaralaRatri was based on a play translated from English to Kannada by Mohan…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ^ "Review of Anaganaga O Athidhi on Aha: There's No Fire in This Remake of Kannada Thriller Aa Karaala Ratri". 21 November 2020.
  5. ^ "SEVEN FILMS TO STREAM ON OTT PLATFORMS IN NOVEMBER!". India Glitz. 30 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Director Dayal Padmanabhan is remaking his film Aa Karaala Ratri, in Telugu and Tamil". Times Of India. 7 September 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Dayal Padmanabhan set to make his Kollywood debut". The Times of India. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  8. ^ Praveen, S. R. (3 March 2023). "'Pakalum Pathiravum' movie review: Kunchacko Boban, Rajisha Vijayan's thriller is felled by mediocre filmmaking". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  9. ^ "Pakalum Pathiravum Movie Review: A thriller that needed toning down". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 March 2024.