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Cheluvina Chittara

2007 film by S. Narayan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5090266
Source-derived summary

Cheluvina Chittara (spelt onscreen as Cheluvina Chiththara; transl. Galant Design) is a 2007 Kannada-language film directed and produced by S. Narayan. Ganesh, Amoolya played the lead roles. The music was composed by Mano Murthy. This film is a remake of Tamil film Kaadhal.

Plot

Maadesha works as a mechanic in a garage. He is liked by an innocent college-going girl Aishwarya who is the daughter of a local don Potharaju. Aishwarya is deeply in love with him and they elope. Later the gang members of Potharaju are in search of the couple. The lovers are lured by the bride's uncle, and they are taken back to Potharaju.

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“Cheluvina Chittara” enters the record as 2007 film by S. Narayan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cheluvina, Chittara and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cheluvina, Chittara and film.
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“Cheluvina Chittara” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cheluvina, Chittara and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jun 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5090266. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from Cheluvina Chittara” 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.