Jogayya

Jogayya Kannada Indian Kannada language film starring actor Shivrajkumar and directed by Prem. This is the 100th film of Kannada actor Shivrajkumar and the shooting began on his 49th birthday. It was produced under the banner of Prem Pictures. Rakshita Prem, who is the wife of the director Prem, is the producer of this film. It is the sequel to the 2005 blockbuster film Jogi. The film was released onAugust 2011 in more than 245 theaters across Karnataka to mixed reviews from critics.

Due to the huge success of the film Jogi in 2005, there has been a tremendous interest generated for Jogayya in 2011. Although the film is scheduled to release onAugust, tickets of first three days were issued one week in advance. Within a few hours after initiating booking, alldays tickets were sold out in the BKT region Bengaluru, Kolar and Tumkur of Karnataka. Black tickets being sold at exorbitant rates of up to 3,000 per ticket was reported. The movie has started seeing empty halls since the eighth week and has subsequently been replaced.Though the producers made money, the real losers were the theater owners and the distributors.The films music album was released onMay 2011. Jogayya has eight songs including a theme composed by V. Harikrishna and Ashwini Recording Company has bought the music rights of the film. More than 100,000 CDs amp cassettes were sold withindays of music release, which is a record in Kannada Film Industry. Over 60,000 records were sold on the first day of market launch. ........

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