is a 1997 Indian Kannada-language family drama film written and directed by Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar.

[1] It stars Ramesh Aravind, Akshay Anand and Hema Panchamukhi, with H. G. Dattatreya, Vaishali Kasaravalli and Shivaram in supporting roles.

The plot revolves around three childhood friends hailing from a coastal village of Karnataka who are entangled in marital issues with a major portion of the story taking place in the United States.

The film makes an attempt to study the mindset of non-resident Indians settled abroad at the time.

Emerging as a commercial success, the film had grossed around ₹ 1.1 crore within the first two months of its release.

[3] The movie begins with the story of three childhood friends – Surya, Shashank and Bhoomi  – are from the coastal region of Karnataka.

Surya is extremely patriotic about India and does not want to go anywhere and starts his business in his hometown, and Bhoomi stays at home.

Surya, thus unknowingly, grabs the wrong tape and throws it into a nearby river.

Shashank asks Soorya to get out of their house and blames India and Indian culture.

One day, Bhoomi searches for her rabbit (Minchu), but cannot find her; Shashank tells her he already cooked and ate it, later he tells Bhoomi that he donated the rabbit to a humane society, as it reminded him of Surya.

Surya manages all legal formalities around Shashank's funeral, making Bhoomi feel proud of him.

Surya insists that she comes back to India and gives her a return ticket telling her that he would wait for her in the airport.

[6] America based software engineer, Mano Murthy scored the music for the film.

When Chandrasekhar came to United States to screen his film Kotreshi Kanasu, Murthy met him and composed one of the tunes which later became "Nooru Janmaku".