Nooru Janmaku

Nooru Janmaku (Kannada: ನೂರು ಜನ್ಮಕು) is a 2010 Indian Kannada language romantic drama film written and directed by Nagathihalli Chandrashekar and produced by Vinay Lad. Nagathihalli's usual associate Mano Murthy is the music composer for the film. The film stars newcomer Santhosh along with Aindrita Ray and Adarsh Balakrishna of Iqbal fame. The film deals with the recession as the backdrop. Santosh Rai Pathaje is the cinematographer for the film.

The film released on 21 May 2010 across Karnataka and set high expectations for its storyline and some controversies. However upon release, the film generally met with negative reviews from the critics and audience.

Vinyas (Santhosh) working as an architect is shown a pink-slip from his employer due to the huge recession in economy. With the help of his friend Hanumanthu (Sharan), Vinyas sets up his own office and hires a brilliant interior architect Drushti (Aindrita). The team make some high-profile work and get popular within few days. Meanwhile, he develops love towards Drushti to which she rejects as she already was in love with Jeevan (Aadarsh). Seeing the developments, Drushti quits the company and moves out with Jeevan and sets up her own business. Dejected by love, Vinyas begin to lose interest in his business and incurs huge loss. Later, he comes back to reality and revamps his business to get success again. In one of the architectural conferences, he meets Drushti and Jeevan again doing well for themselves and getting 2nd place at the competition. As a courtesy, Vinyas rejects his first prize and stages the sequence as to award Drushti the prize in his place. He walks out in deep satisfaction that he sacrificed with good intention.

The title of the film, inspired by the most popular song of director Nagathihalli Chandrashekar's 1996 film, America America!, was announced in early 2009 by the director. The film's background deals with the social issue of the job recession. This film was launched at a time when the director Nagathihalli's previous two films failed at the box-office. One of the highlights of the filming was the unit shot some scenes at the star cruise ship at Macau island. The post production work of the film got completed by mid-March and it was ready for release in April month.