| Ekangi | |
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| Directed by | Ravichandran |
| Written by | Ravichandran |
| Produced by | Ravichandran |
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| Cinematography | G. S. V. Seetharam |
| Edited by | Shyam Yadav |
| Music by | Ravichandran |
Production company | Eshwari Enterprises |
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Running time | 150 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Kannada |
Ekangi is a 2002 Indian Kannada-language film written, directed by and starring Ravichandran. He also wrote film's screenplay and composed the music. The film stars Ramya Krishna and Prakash Raj, with Vanitha Vasu, K. S. Sridhar, Ramesh Bhat and Sadhu Kokila in supporting roles. With the film, Ravichandran's reputation as an experimenter grew, having erected a house of ₹ 80 lakh exclusively for the film and spending heavily in filming song sequences, an unusual trend in Kannada cinema during the time.[1] It was also the first in Kannada and second Indian film to employ SFX sound system.
The film received warm reviews from film critics and won five awards at the 2001–02 Karnataka State Film Awards including the award for Second Best Film and Best Actor (Ravichandran). It was an ambitious project, but failed to succeed at the box-office, even though following the audience's hostile response after its theatrical release, almost 20 scenes were re-shot and re-edited before re-releasing it with censor acceptance. Ravichandran was said to have suffered a loss of ₹ 2 crore owing to the film's commercial failure.[2]
- ^ "Veterans still hold the key". The New Indian Express. 14 March 2010. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
- ^ "2002 Year Round Up". chitraloka.com. 30 December 2002. Archived from the original on 11 December 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2014.