Rowdy Aliya

Rowdy Aliya
Directed by	Om Sai Prakash
Written by	Om Sai Prakash
Produced by	Neha
Starring	Shiva Rajkumar Priyanka Trivedi Jayamala Chaya Singh
Cinematography	Dasari Seenu
Edited by	P. R. Sounder Rajan
Music by	Koti Sadhu Kokila Rajesh Ramanath K. Kalyan Babji-Sandeep Srishaila Vandemataram Srinivas
Production company	Komal Enterprises
Release date	6 February 2004 (2004-02-06)
Running time	150 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Rowdy Aliya is a 2004 Kannada comedy - action film directed and written by Om Sai Prakash and produced by Neha. The film features Shiva Rajkumar and Priyanka Trivedi in the lead roles along with Jaimala and Chaya Singh in other pivotal roles.

The film featured original score and soundtrack composed and written by a team of 7 composers. Though the 2003 movie Sri Ram was announced as Shiva Rajkumar's 75th movie, this movie became the 75th movie in the order of release.

Cast

• Shiva Rajkumar as Raja
• Priyanka Upendra as Rani
• Jayamala as Malini Devi
• Chaya Singh as Kuppamma
• Sharan as Sripathi
• Doddanna as Malini Devi's brother
• Sadhu Kokila as Inspector Jayasimha
• Ramesh Bhat as Madayya
• Ashok as Raje Gowda, Raja's father
• Avinash as Ramayya, Malini Devi's husband
• Dharma as Raviteja
• Shivaram as college principal
• M. S. Umesh as peon in college
• Chitra Shenoy as Lakshmi, Raja's mother
• Ashalatha as Asha, Raviteja's mother
• Rekha Das as doctor
• Rajesh Nataranga as estate worker
• Vaijanath Biradar
• Gandasi Nagaraj
• Adugodi Srinivas
• Srishailan
• Sithara
• Sarojamma
• Chandrakumari

Soundtrack

The music was composed by seven music directors, including Koti, Sadhu Kokila, Rajesh Ramanath, K. Kalyan, Babji-Sandeep, Srishaila and Vandemataram Srinivas. The singers were largely notable Bollywood singers apart from Shivarajkumar himself singing a track.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Nanagintha Yaaru"	K. Kalyan	KK, Sunidhi Chauhan
2.	"Ee Beautiya"	Prasanna	Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Hema Sardesai
3.	"Hero Hero Hatrick Hero"	K. Kalyan	Shivarajkumar, Shamitha Malnad
4.	"Ivala Pose Nodu"	K. Kalyan	Shankar Mahadevan
5.	"Ammamma Shaku"	Shree Ranga	Sonu Nigam, Sowmya Raoh
6.	"Yamma Yammamamma"	Kaviraj	Shaan, Anuradha Sriram
7.	"Jaya Jaya Shankari"	K. Kalyan	Shankar Mahadevan, Manjula Gururaj

Marketing

As part of film's promotions, on Kannada Rajyotsava day, producer Mohan "arranged a rally with 45 bikers" who took part with Kannada flag followed by four Matadors with huge cutouts of the film spotting the protagonist's look from the film and "visited all major areas of Bangalore to promote the film through interactive questions and quiz to people of all these locations from morning till evening and giving away Rowdy Aliya film cassettes and T-shirts to the winners".

Reception

Chitraloka called it "worth your money". Sify wrote "The film is noted for the performance of Shivraj Kumar - Priyanka- Chaya - Jaimala. Lavish production values and good songs make the film worth watching".

External links

• Rowdy Aliya at IMDb
• 2004 year roundup
• Unique promotion for Rowdy Aliya