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Kari Chirathe

2010 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ24038017
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Kari Chirathe (Kannada: ಕರಿ ಚರಿತೆ) is a 2010 Indian Kannada-language film directed by K Madesh, starring

Duniya Vijay, Sharmila Mandre, Yagna Shetty and Rangayana Raghu in lead roles.

Cast

Duniya Vijay as Madha

Sharmila Mandre

Yagna Shetty as Bharti

Rangayana Raghu

Imran Khan

Raghav Uday

Anil Kumar

Umesh Punga

Jai Jagadish

Music

Reception

The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics. The Times of India gave the film 3 out of 5 stars. Sify, in their review, wrote- "Kari Chirathe adds to the list of so-called action potboilers which have hit the screens in almost all the languages in the country. The story lacks freshness". Shruti Indira Lakshminarayana of Rediff.com scored the film at 1.5 out of 5 stars and says "Yagna hopes to bring out her oomph factor. She had proved her mettle in Edelu Manjunatha and Sugreeva, but fails to impress this time. Sudha Belavadi, who has time and again come out with good performances, also falters. Kari Chirate could have been an ideal mass entertainer, but fails". Bangalore Mirror wrote "Sharmila is believable as a domicile unglamorous wife, yet delectable, particularly in songs.

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This entry incorporates text from Kari Chirathe” 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.