Auto Shankar (2005)

Interesting facts

Auto Shankar is a 2005 Indian Kannada-language masala film starring Upendra, Shilpa Shetty, and Radhika. The film was directed by D. Rajendra Babu and produced by Ramu, of Ramu Enterprises. It tells the story of Shankar, an autorickshaw driver belonging to a middle-class family, who gets into a conflict with Maya, a moneylender. However, the tables turn when she loses her property and they fall in love.

Production

The film was launched at Gavi Gangadeshwara Temple in Basavanagudi in Bangalore. As the director was ill during the majority of the shoot, Telugu cinema's renowned associate director Shiva Ramakrishna, an associate of Puri Jagannadh, directed the songs, fight sequences and a major portion of Shilpa Shetty's scenes. The movie was filmed in different locations including Austria, Finland, the Bangalore Palace, and the Mysore Lamps Factory, Mysore.

The film sparked off a controversy with regard to a movie poster depicted a glamour still of Shilpa Shetty from the film. A Madurai based lawyer filed an obscenity case against Shetty. Shetty however, protested by saying that "It (the photo) is not vulgar. I am an actor and an entertainer and I won't endorse vulgarity".

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