Dwarakish Chitra

Background
Dwarakish Chitra is an Indian Kannada-language film company founded by Indian actor, director and producer Bungle Shama Rao Dwarakanath (better known by his nickname Dwarakish). Its first film produced by the company was in 1966, but it didn't use a logo until 1969. The company was formerly named "Dwaraka Films".

1st Logo (October 16, 1969- )
Nicknames: "Indian Face From Hell", "The Roaring/Laughing Indian Man", "Dwarakish's Face", "Karnataka's Nightmare Face", "Stretch Films' Indian Grandfather", "India's Even More Human Twist On MGM"

Logo: On a blue background, we see the external borders of the countries of former British Raj (present day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka) being drawn in a yellow hue. Then, the drawing zooms and fades and appears by zooming the border of Karnataka (an Indian state). Suddenly, we see the face of a male (inside the border of Karnataka) smiling and showing his teeth while he's roaring like a lion (a la MGM Lion). While that happens, below the face of the guy some text in Kannada appears (ದ್ವಾರಕೀಶ್ಚಿತ್ರ). After that, the guy laughs out loud, and it disappears.

Trivia: The man in the logo is Dwarakish.

Variants:


 * On Singaporenalli Raja Kulla, a red and blue negative color is used.
 * On Mayor Muthanna, the logo is in black & white.
 * On Pedda Gedda, the background is dark blue.
 * Prachanda Kulla: On a dark background, we see a drawing of the India. Then the background turns blue and the India appears with the different states in different colors. There's a zoom into the state of Karnataka. Then, the color yellow of the state and the blue of the background become in black, while the border of Karnataka turns yellow. We see inside it a shot of Dwarakish (older than the the other logos, and he's not yellow) in a circular spot inside Karnataka smiling, roaring and doing a military salute instead of laughing, and appears a different text in Kannada. Oddly enough, the laughing sound is retained.

FX/SFX: The drawing of South Asia, the zoom out, the face of Dwarakish.

Music/Sounds: A loud trumpet fanfare before it transcends to a 5-note xylophone followed by sitar tune. During the sitar sequence, Dwarakish roars like a lion twice as mentioned before. After that, he laughs hysterically.

Music/Sounds Variants:


 * On Vishnuvardhana, the zaps and whooshes are used on the drawing of the India and zoom in.
 * At least one film is known to have the opening voice-over play over the logo's animation.

Availability: Common, it can be found on movies like Mayor Muthanna, Jai Karnataka, Singaporenalli Raja Kulla, Kulla Pulli, and others.

Editor's Note: This logo is one of the longest-running film logos of all time, being used for over 50 years, possibly due to the simplicity. It can be seen as a very weird logo to those unaware of it however, due to Dwarakish's roaring and laughing.

2nd Logo (March 16, 1977)
Logo: On a severely moving red background with some light displaying on it, we see a silhouette of four naked-like kids holding a yellow flag which displays some text which translates to "Dwaraka Films". The flag waves when the naked-like kids are holding it. Those are standing on a completely blue planet. Some lights reveal the statue clearly to which whom the planet reads the same as the flag displayed, on red.

FX/SFX: The background, the globe rotating, the lights and the flag waving.

Music/Sounds: A sharp fanfare, made with trumpet, drum, and a small portions of violin. This has some similarities with the opening theme of the film.

Availability: Seen only on Bhagyavantharu.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd Logo (September 14, 1984-February 14, 1989, December 14, 2001)
Logo: We see a conjoint of candles on a dark, black background. Then an orange circle (the sun) makes the dark into dawn, revealing a silhouette of a statue on a yellow-red-blue background. The dawn gets more brighter and brighter, until the white pedestal which display "DWARAKISH CHITRA", on yellow, and the statue of a man with white beard sitting in front of the candles on a very modeled indian templar (looks like a chair with a house on it), of many colors, patterns and designs, and on the bottom we see the bottom candles stranded on flowers, some kinds of grasses and pastures. We then zoom in to the statue of the man (if you see closely you can see some smoke on it).

Variant: TBA.

Trivia: The man is Brahma, the creator God.

FX/SFX: The sun illuminating, the illumination of the logo and the zoom.

Music/Sounds: A melody made by a tampura, followed by a creepy male voice. A male chorus repeats what the voice said, then the voice says something else, repeated again by the chorus. Then a religious song repeated twice by a chorus of males and females.

Availability: Seen on Ganvaa, Nee Bareda Kadambari, Nee Thanda Kanike, Brahma Gantu, Naan Adimai Illai, Dance Raja Dance, Ganda Mane Makkalu, and Krishna Nee Kunidaga. It would make a brief return in Majanu (2001).

Editor's Note: None.