Z (1999 film)

Z (ಝಡ್) is a 1999 Indian Kannada-language mystery thriller film written and directed by K. Praveen Nayak. It stars Prakash Rai, Prema and Ritu Shivpuri in the lead roles and features five different composers tuning for the soundtrack.

Z was released on 19 February 1999. It was dubbed in Telugu and released in Telugu as Maha Natudu.

Cast

 * Prakash Rai as Prakash
 * Prema as Prema
 * Ritu Shivpuri
 * Sundeep Malani
 * Tennis Krishna
 * Harsha Darbar
 * Kote Prabhakar
 * Agro Chikkanna
 * Sunitha
 * Nagesh Mayya
 * Dinesh Mangalore
 * K. Praveen Nayak
 * Vaijanath Biradar
 * Bank Suresh
 * Fayaz Khan
 * A. S. Murthy

Soundtrack
Five composers contributed six tracks for the film, including the film's director Praveen Nayak, who composed one song and wrote lyrics for two others.

Reception
A critic from The New Indian Express wrote that "The only reason to watch this movie is if you have nothing else to do". Jyothi Raghuram of The Hindu wrote "Praveen’s story rambles, and his dialogues are simplistic. His screenplay is in keeping with all of this. Yet, this debutant director cannot be written off, for ‘Z” does have its moments of pluses, and Praveen, his flashes of directorial grip."