Kaviratna Kalidasa

Kaviratna Kalidasa
Poster
Directed byRenuka Sharma
Produced byV. S. Govinda
StarringRajkumar
Jaya Prada
Balakrishna
Srinivasa Murthy
CinematographyV. K. Kannan
Edited byP. G. Mohan
Music byM. Ranga Rao
Production
company
Anandalakshmi Enterprises
Distributed byVajreshwari Combines
Release date
  • 18 February 1983 (1983-02-18)
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Running time
189 minutes[2]
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

Kaviratna Kalidasa (transl. Poet Kalidasa) is a 1983 Kannada-language historical drama film based on the life of Kālidāsa, a renowned Classical Sanskrit writer of the 4th Century A.D. The film was written and directed by Renuka Sharma and produced by V. S. Govinda. The film stars Rajkumar, portraying the title role of Kalidasa, along with Jaya Pradha in the role of Vidyadhare and Srinivasa Murthy as Raja Bhoja.

The film is considered to be one of the all-time top money-grossing films in the history of Kannada movies. It was distributed by Parvathamma Rajkumar under the Vajreshwari Combines banner. The movie saw a theatrical run of 25 weeks[3] in 19 theatres.[4]

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  3. ^ "Rajkumar films". chitratara.com. 7 April 2007. Archived from the original on 17 July 2007.
  4. ^ ""ನಾನೇ ಎಲ್ಲಾ, ನನ್ನಿಂದಾನೆ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಅನ್ನೋದು ರವಿಚಂದ್ರನ್ ಸೋಲಿಗೆ ಕಾರಣ!'-Director Renuka Sharma-Kalamadhyama". YouTube. 14 September 2023.