Ullasa Utsaha


Ullasa Utsaha is a 2009 Kannada language film directed by Devaraja Palan starring Ganesh and Yami Gautam. A remake of the Telugu film Ullasamga Utsahamga, it was produced by B.P. Thyagaraju co-producer Vinay Aryan and music by G. V. Prakash Kumar.

Plot

The protagonist, Preetham, is an irresponsible young son of a garage owner. He falls in love with a girl named Mahalakshmi, who stays in his locality. Preetham and does everything possible to woo Mahalakshmi, but she is not in the least interested with him and rather thinks of him as a nuisance. She is in love with an old childhood friend that she has not met since a long time. She has run away from a marriage arranged by her stepmother to get her money. Many fights with the hero later, she eventually trusts him to take her to meet her childhood friend.

Cast

Ullasa Utsaha is the remake of the recent Telugu hit, Ullasamga Utsahamga. The hero Yasho Sagar, a Kannadiga by birth recommended Ganesh to be the hero of the remake. Ganesh felt it was a tailor-made role for him and agreed to act. The film later ran into some trouble when papers reported that its heroine Shraddha Arya dropped out of the film three days into the first schedule due to personal reasons. However, the producers and Ganesh maintained that she was never involved with the film. For a short while the film progressed without a heroine. A few weeks later Yami – a television artist from Chandigarh – was cast. GV Prakash, who scored the original film, will also be scoring the remake.

Box office

The film was an average grosser at box office by completing 25 days.

Soundtrack

The official soundtrack contains seven songs, out of which five were re-used from the original Telugu version, composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar. The song "Chalisuva Cheluve" r went on to be reused in the 2012 Tamil film Saguni as "Manasellam Mazhaiye", featuring the original singers i.e. Sonu Nigam and Saindhavi. The audio of the film was released on 16 August 2009.