Simhada Mari Sainya


Simhada Mari Sainya is a 1981 Indian Kannada- language children's film directed by Rajendra Singh Babu. It stars Arjun Sarja, Amrish Puri, Baby Indira, Baby Rekha and an ensemble of other child actors. It won two awards at the 1981–82 Karnataka State Film Awards — Karnataka State [Film Award for Best Editor|Best Editor] and Karnataka State Film Award for Best [Child Actor (Female)|Best Female Child Actor]. The film is notable for a scene that involves Arjun Sarja clinging onto a helicopter hovering at a height of 500 feet above the ground. The film was selected for the Paris and Moscow International Film Festivals. Later it was dubbed in Hindi as Aaj Ke Sholey by Jaya Bachchan.

Plot

A group of children, led by James and Arjun, journey into a forest to rescue the two daughters of their friend's sisters kidnapped by Gupta.

Cast

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Arjun's father Shakti Prasad, did not want his son to become an actor and turned down film offers that Arjun began to receive as a teenager. In a surprise move, film producer Rajendra Singh Babu managed to convince Arjun, then 17 year old boy to begin shooting for a feature film for his production house without Shakti Prasad's express permission and consequently, his father agreed to Arjun's career choice and the featured him as a junior artiste and the director of the film gave him the stage name of Arjun, replacing his original name Ashok Babu. He performed a risky stunt of hanging from a helicopter which is above 500 feet.

Soundtrack

composed the background score and the music for the soundtracks in the album.