Cheluva is a 1997 Kannada comedy-drama film directed and enacted by V. Ravichandran in dual roles. The rest of the cast includes Meena, Gautami, Suman and Tiger Prabhakar among others.^[1] The film is a remake of Telugu film Hello Brother. The film was also twice remade in Hindi as Judwaa starring Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor and Rambha and Judwaa 2 (2017) starring Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez and Taapsee Pannu and in Bengali as Bhaijaan Elo Re (2018) starring Shakib Khan, Srabanti Chatterjee and Payel Sarkar.

The film featured an original score and soundtrack composed and written by Hamsalekha and was produced by S. Ramesh for Mahalakshmi Pictures banner.

Plot

Cheluva and Vijay, two twin brothers, are separated in their childhood by Raghuram, a well-known criminal. Cheluva is left on the streets by Raghuram and becomes a small-time criminal. Vijay was brought up under his parents' guidance and is a well-known engineer. After several years, Cheluva has come face to face with his family. The rest of the film deals with the confusion the family face due to the lookalikes of Cheluva and Vijay.

Cast

• V. Ravichandran (double acting) as Cheluva/Vijay
• Meena as Meena
• Gautami as Moha
• Tiger Prabhakar as Police Officer Prathap
• Kazan Khan as Kodanda, an evil
• Mukhyamantri Chandru as sidekick of Kodanda
• Srinivasa Murthy
• Umashree as lady PC
• Bank Janardhan as Bhandlee Bhandari
• Doddanna as Head P.C.
• Tennis Krishna as PK
• B. V. Radha as Akhilandeshwari, Mother of Moha
• Sumithra
• Bhavyasri Rai
• Padma Vasanthi
• Sundar Raj
• Pramila Joshai
• Ponnambalam
• Vijay Kashi
• Bank Suresh
• Stunt Siddu
• Shiva Kumar
• Dingri Nagaraj
• Sarigama Viji
• M. D. Kaushik

Soundtrack

The music was composed and written by Hamsalekha.^[2]

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