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Amrithadhare

2005 film by Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ4748690 ↗
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Amruthadhare () is a 2005 Indian Kannada-language romantic drama film directed and co-produced by Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar and written by actor Ramesh Aravind and Chandrashekhar. The film was released on 7 October 2005 starring Dhyan and Ramya in the lead roles. The music was composed by Mano Murthy. Amitabh Bachchan made a guest appearance as himself in the film. The film ran for twenty-five weeks, thereby becoming a silver jubilee film.

Plot

Puru (Dhyan) and Amrutha (Ramya) are a married couple who behave like they are still lovers. Even though they like each other, they quarrel sometimes. Amrutha is a spendthrift and Puru is a miser. She wants a child to build a family, while he wants to build a house first. The film follows their trials and tribulations as they navigate the difficult world of marriage in the modern age.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Amrithadhare” as 2005 film by Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Amrithadhare, film and Nagathihalli can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2005 film by Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4748690. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Amrithadhare” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.