Bheemasena Nalamaharaja is a 2020 Indian Kannada-language drama film directed by Karthik Saragur and produced by Pushkara Mallikarjunaiah, Rakshit Shetty, and Hemanth M. Rao. It stars Aravinnd Iyer and Arohi Narayan along with Priyanka, Aadya, and Achyut Kumar.
As per the director, the film is "based on six rasas—sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent and astringent, and the six characters represent six rasas." The soundtrack and score was composed by Charan Raj and the cinematography was handled by Ravindranath.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was streamed worldwide from 29 October 2020 on Amazon Prime Video as a part of their Great Indian Festival.
Cast
Aravinnd Iyer as Latthesh / Bheemasena Nalamaharaja
Arohi Narayan as Dr.Arohi/Vedavalli Varadarajan
Priyanka Thimmesh as Vedavalli Varadarajan / Sarah Mary
Achyuth Kumar as Varadarajan Iyengar
Vijay Chendoor as Kenda
Lakshmi Karanth as Saraswathy Varadarajan
Sandhya Arakere as Kavitha
Aadya Udupi as Lalli
Amaan as Dr. Francis
Pooja Kashyap as Veda's friend
Chitrali Tejpal as Young Vedavalli
Praveen Kumar Gasti as Worker at Nadimoola Resort
Manas Gabriel as Aravind
Deepa K N as Aravind's mother
Meese Anjanappa as Hotel Owner
Tushar Gowda as Young Latthesh
Vinod Divakar as Father of church
Production
The film was officially launched on Varamahalakshmi festival day on 4 August 2017.