before he can meet Sumathi, trouble arrives in the form of Rajashekhar's erstwhile crooked business partners, who are after a valuable necklace stolen from a temple in Delhi, which they believe is now in Rajashekhar's possession. The partners kidnap Sumathi and imprison and torture Rajashekhar and a final fight ensues where Shankar and Guru ( who are revealed to be twins) rescue and re-unite their parents. Cast Rajkumar as Rajashekhar alias Jayaraj/ Shankar/Gurumurthy alias Guru Jayamala as Nalini Padmapriya as Malathi Kanchana as Sumati Vaishali Kasaravalli in a cameo Balakrishna as Advocate Lakshman Rao Vajramuni as Premkumar Thoogudeepa Srinivas as Madanlal Sampath as Gurumurthy Prabhakar as Tiger Uma Shivakumar as Doctor Prema Chandrashekhar as Divakar alias Duplicate Shankar Chi. Udayashankar Honnavalli Krishna Keerthi Raj Soundtrack The film music was composed by Upendra Kumar with lyrics for the soundtrack by Chi. Udaya Shankar. All the film's songs were sung by Rajkumar himself along with Vani Jayaram in Eneno Aase Nee Thanda and P. B. Sreenivas in Naa Benkiyanthe Naa Gaaliyanthe. Reception Shankar Guru garnered positive responses from the audience as well as critics. The film was a phenomenal success in A, B and C centers. The film completed 100 days in all of the release centers. The film had a theatrical run of 58 consecutive weeks in Kempegowda theatere, Bangalore while it completed a 54 weeks theatrical run in several other centers. The film was a major commercial success at the box-office. The film was declared an industrial hit at the box office. The film had a theatrical run of about 365 days. It grossed 3.26 crores in its final run becoming the first Kannada film to gross over 3 crores at the box office. The film was the highest grossing Kannada film of the 70's. Remakes It was remade in Tamil as Thirisoolam (1979), in Telugu as Kumara Raja (1978) and in Hindi as Mahaan (1983) in which, Rajkumar's characters were played by Sivaji Ganesan, Krishna and Amitabh Bachchan respectively. The Telugu version had the Kannada actress Jayanthi reprising Kanchana's role while Jayaprada reprised the role of Padmapriya.The names of all the characters including the henchmen were retained in the Tamil version. Awards 1977–78 Karnataka State Film Awards Best Editor – P. Bhaktavatsalam Trivia Chi. Udayashankar, the dialogue-writer for the film, titled the movie Shankar Guru after his sons Ravishankar and Chi. Guru Dutt. This was the first movie in