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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".
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1st Logo (October 16, 1969- ) | 2nd Logo (March 16, 1977) | 3rd Logo (September 14, 1984-August 31, 2001) |
1st Logo (October 16, 1969- )
Visuals: On a blue background, there is 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, there is the face of a male (Dwarakish) 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 Dwarakish some text in Kannada appears (ದ್ವಾರಕೀಶ್ಚಿತ್ರ). After that, Dwarakish laughs out loud, and it disappears.
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, there is a drawing of India. Then the background turns blue and 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. There is inside it a shot of Dwarakish (older than in the other logos, and in full color rather than yellow tone) in a circular spot inside Karnataka smiling, roaring and doing a military salute instead of laughing, and different text in Kannada appears. Oddly enough, the laughing sound is retained.
Technique: Cel animation combined with chroma-keyed live action.
Audio: 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.
Audio 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: It can be found on movies like Mayor Muthanna, Jai Karnataka, Singaporenalli Raja Kulla, Kulla Pulli, and others.
2nd Logo (March 16, 1977)
Visuals: On a severely moving red background with some light displaying on it, there is 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.
Technique: Practical effects.
Audio: 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.
3rd Logo (September 14, 1984-August 31, 2001)
Visuals: There is 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. The screen then zooms in to the statue of the man (if you see closely you can see some smoke on it).
Variant: Unknown.
Trivia: The man is Raghavendra Swami, a Vaishnava scholar, theologian and saint.
Technique: Live-action.
Audio: A melody made by a tanpura, 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, Africadalli Sheela, Dance Raja Dance, Ganda Mane Makkalu, and Krishna Nee Kunidaga . It would make a brief return in Majanu (2001).