Dance Raja Dance is a 1987 Indian Kannada-language dance film, directed and produced by Dwarakish for his Dwarakish Chitra banner. The film stars newcomers Vinod Raj, Divya and Sangeetha.

Dance Raja Dance
Directed byDwarakish
Written byDwarakish
Produced byDwarakish
StarringVinod Raj
Divya
Srinath
Devaraj
CinematographyR. Deviprasad
Edited byGowtham Raju
Music byVijayanand
Production
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Dwarakish Chitra
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
Running time
134 min
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

The film released to positive response by critics and audience and the lead star Vinod Raj was lauded for his dancing skills. For this movie, the climax was shot by helicopter, apart from that they used five cameras to shoot this climax scene. Actually it was Dwarakish's Dream to shoot Mysore from an aerial angle. He dropped that idea due to a financial crisis. But the then Chief minister Ramakrishna Hegde learned of this dream and he helped Dwarakish to do so. He called his minister Siddaramaiah to go to Mysore with a helicopter. He went with the helicopter and told Dwarakish to utilize the helicopter.

Around 1988-1990 Tamil and Telugu versions of the film were released. The Tamil version seems to be fairly recent as of the recording quality of the vocals.

The song "Dance Dance Raja Dance" from this film was included in the widely popular video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories[1] along with few other Indian songs in a radio channel Radio Del Mundo. A. R. Rahman worked as an assistant for this movie.[2]

Soundtrack

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The music was composed by Vijaya Anand, with lyrics by Chi. Udaya Shankar and R. N. Jayagopal. Music director A. R. Rahman, who was Dilip then, had assisted Vijaya Anand on the keyboards.[3]

Kannada Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Dance Dance Raja Dance"Chi. Udaya ShankarS. P. Balasubrahmanyam 
2."Elli Neenu Alli Naanu"R. N. JayagopalS. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki 
3."Ee Namma Baale"Chi. Udaya ShankarS. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra 
4."Om Namah Shivaya"Chi. Udaya ShankareraiS. P. Balasubrahmanyam 
5."Amma Amma"Chi. Udaya ShankarS. P. Balasubrahmanyam 
6."Naa Adalu"R. N. JayagopalS. P. Balasubrahmanyam 
Telugu Track list[4]
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Dance Raja"RajasriS. P. Balasubrahmanyam4:17
2."Naa Naadithe"RajasriS. P. Balasubrahmanyam4:17
3."Ningi Nainu"RajasriS. P. Balasubrahmanyam4:45
4."Amma Amma"RajasriS. P. Balasubrahmanyam4:59
5."Sangeetha Madhurim Naa"RajasriS. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra5:00
6."Om Namo"RajasriS. P. Balasubrahmanyam6:05
Total length:29:23

References

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  1. ^ "GTA Kannada song". Archived from the original on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "RAHMAN CYNOSURE AT `GODFATHER`". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
  4. ^ "Dance Raja Dance (Telugu)". JioSaavn. 31 August 2014. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
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