Cheluva

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{{Infobox film

| name = Cheluva

| image =

| caption =

| director = V. Ravichandran

| writer = B. Suresh

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| screenplay = E. V. V. Sathyanarayana

| story = E. V. V. Sathyanarayana

| based_on = Hello Brother by E. V. V. Satyanarayana

| starring = V. Ravichandran
Meena
Gautami

| producer = S. Ramesh

| music = Hamsalekha

| cinematography = G. S. V. Seetharam

| editing = Suresh Urs

| studio = Mahalakshmi Pictures

| released = {{Film date|df=y|1997|09|30}}

| runtime = 156 minutes

| language = Kannada

| country = India

| budget =

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Cheluva is a 1997 Kannada comedy-drama film directed and enacted by V. Ravichandran in dual roles. The rest of the cast includes Meena, Gautami and Tiger Prabhakar among others.{{Cite web |url=http://entertainment.oneindia.in/kannada/movies/cheluva.html |title=Cheluva |access-date=6 February 2014 |archive-date=22 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222021702/http://entertainment.oneindia.in/kannada/movies/cheluva.html |url-status=dead }} The film is a remake of Telugu film Hello Brother which itself was loosely based on the Hong Kong action comedy Twin Dragons (1992) starring Jackie Chan.{{Cite book |last=Srinivas |first=S. V. |title=Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema |date=2005 |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |isbn=978-1-932643-19-0 |editor-last=Morris |editor-first=Meaghan |pages=111–124 (112) |chapter=7. Hong Kong Action Film and the Career of the Telugu Mass Hero |editor-last2=Li |editor-first2=Siu Leung |editor-last3=Chan |editor-first3=Stephen Ching-kiu |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DdrHAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA112}}{{Cite web |date=19 July 2007 |title=David Dhawan's blue-eyed boys |url=http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2007/jul/19slid2.htm |access-date=3 September 2016 |website=Rediff.com |archive-date=5 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205144508/http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2007/jul/19slid2.htm |url-status=live }}

The film featured an original score and soundtrack composed and written by Hamsalekha and was produced by S. Ramesh for Mahalakshmi Pictures banner.