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== Highest-grossing films ==
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|1.
|''[[Premaloka]]''
|₹12 crore (₹171.66 crore in 2025)
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== List ==
The following is a list of films produced in the [[Kannada cinema|Kannada film]] industry in India in [[1987 in film|1987]], presented in alphabetical order.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://chiloka.com/kannada/movies/1987 | title=Top 1987 Kannada Movies List }}</ref>

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! Title
! Director
! Cast
! Music
! Reference
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| ''[[Aaganthuka]]'' || [[Suresh Heblikar]] || [[Suresh Heblikar]], [[Vanitha Vasu]], [[Devaraj]], Jayashri|| [[Rajiv Taranath]] ||
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| ''Aapadbandhava'' || [[A. T. Raghu]] || [[Ambareesh]], [[Ambika (actress)|Ambika]], Parijatha, [[Lohithaswa]] || [[Rajan–Nagendra]] ||
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| ''Aase'' || Jayarama Reddy || [[Charan Raj]], [[Geetha (actress)|Geetha]], N. S. Rao, [[Disco Shanti]] || Ravi Shenoy ||
|-
| ''[[Aaseya Bale]]'' || Raj Kishor || [[Vishnuvardhan (actor)|Vishnuvardhan]], [[Nalini (actress)|Nalini]], [[Jai Jagadish]], [[Loknath]] || [[Vijaya Bhaskar]] ||
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| ''Agni Kanye'' || T Janardhan || Raja, [[Jai Jagadish]], Ranjini, [[Dinesh (Kannada actor)|Dinesh]] || [[Shankar–Ganesh]] ||
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| ''Anthima Ghatta'' || Janakiram || [[Shankar Nag]], [[Urvashi (actress)|Urvashi]], [[Tara (Kannada actress)|Tara]], [[Ramesh Bhat]] || [[Vijaya Bhaskar]] ||
|-
| ''[[Anthima Theerpu (1987 film)|Anthima Theerpu]]'' || [[A. T. Raghu]] || [[Ambareesh]], [[Bharathi (actress)|Bharathi]], [[Geetha (actress)|Geetha]], [[Thoogudeepa Srinivas]] || [[Hamsalekha]] ||
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| ''[[Athiratha Maharatha]]'' || Perala || [[Ananth Nag]], [[Tiger Prabhakar]], [[Ambika (actress)|Ambika]], [[Avinash Yelandur|Avinash]] || [[K. Chakravarthy]] ||
|-
| ''[[Avasthe]]'' || Krishna Masadi || [[Ananth Nag]], [[Archana (actress)|Archana]], [[B. V. Karanth]], M. P. Prakash, [[J. H. Patel]] || [[Vijaya Bhaskar]] ||
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| ''Baala Nouke'' || Shantaram Kanagal || [[Srinivasa Murthy]], [[Roopa (actress)|Roopadevi]], [[Tara (Kannada actress)|Tara]] || K. P. Sukhadev ||
|-
| ''Bandha Muktha'' || [[K. V. Raju]] || [[Tiger Prabhakar]], [[Bharathi (actress)|Bharathi]], [[Devaraj]], [[Ramakrishna (Kannada actor)|Ramakrishna]] || [[Vijaya Bhaskar]] ||
|-
| ''Bazar Bheema'' || Perala || [[Ambareesh]], [[Geetha (actress)|Geetha]], [[Ambika (actress)|Ambika]], [[K. S. Ashwath]] || [[Satyam (music director)|Satyam]] ||
|-
| ''Bedi'' || [[V. Somashekhar]] || [[Ambareesh]], [[Bhavya]], [[Sudha Chandran]], [[Tiger Prabhakar]] || [[Hamsalekha]] ||
|-
| ''Bhadrakali'' || [[Renuka Sharma]]|| [[Sridhar (Kannada actor)|Sridhar]], [[Mahalakshmi (kannada actress)|Mahalakshmi]], [[Tara (Kannada actress)|Tara]] || [[Satyam (music director)|Satyam]] ||
|-
| ''Daivashakti'' || [[Renuka Sharma]] || [[Ananth Nag]], [[Bhavya]], [[Thoogudeepa Srinivas]], [[Umashree]] || [[Hamsalekha]] ||
|-
| ''[[Dance Raja Dance]]'' || [[Dwarakish]] || [[Vinod Raj]], [[Devaraj]], Divya, Sangeetha, [[Srinath (Kannada actor)|Srinath]] || [[Vijay Anand (composer)|Vijay Anand]] ||
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| ''[[Digvijaya (film)|Digvijaya]]'' || Soma || [[Ambareesh]], [[Shankar Nag]], [[Ambika (actress)|Ambika]], [[Radha (actress)|Radha]], [[Srinath (Kannada actor)|Srinath]], [[Vajramuni]] || [[Hamsalekha]] ||
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| ''[[Ee Bandha Anubandha]]'' || K. Janakiram || [[Shankar Nag]], [[Zarina Wahab]], [[Master Manjunath]], [[Vajramuni]] || [[Ramesh Naidu]] ||
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| ''Hosa Madam'' || S. Anand || [[Mukhyamantri Chandru]], [[Bharathi (actress)|Bharathi]], [[Sundar Raj]], Lohitashwa || S. P. Kumar ||
|-
| ''[[Hrudaya Pallavi]]'' || [[R. N. Jayagopal]] || [[Srinath (Kannada actor)|Srinath]], [[Geetha (actress)|Geetha]], Pavithra, [[Ramakrishna (Kannada actor)|Ramakrishna]] || [[M. Ranga Rao]] ||
|-
| ''[[Huli Hebbuli]]'' || [[Vijay (director)|Vijay]] || [[Shankar Nag]], [[Tiger Prabhakar]], [[Sumalatha]], [[Bhavya]], [[Ananth Nag]], [[Leelavathi (actress)|Leelavathi]] || [[Vijaya Bhaskar]] ||
|-
| ''Inspector Krantikumar'' || [[A. T. Raghu]] || [[Ambareesh]], [[Geetha (actress)|Geetha]], [[Bhavya]], [[Jai Jagadish]], [[Mukhyamantri Chandru]] || [[Rajan–Nagendra]] ||
|-
| ''[[Jayasimha (1987 film)|Jayasimha]]'' || [[P. Vasu]]|| [[Vishnuvardhan (actor)|Vishnuvardhan]], [[Mahalakshmi (kannada actress)|Mahalakshmi]], [[Vajramuni]], [[Umashree]]|| [[Vijay Anand (composer)|Vijay Anand]] ||
|-
| ''[[Jeevana Jyothi (1987 film)|Jeevana Jyothi]]'' || [[P. Vasu]] || [[Vishnuvardhan (actor)|Vishnuvardhan]], [[Ambika (actress)|Ambika]], [[Nalini (actress)|Nalini]] || [[Vijay Anand (composer)|Vijay Anand]] ||
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| ''[[Karunamayi (film)|Karunamayi]]'' || [[H. R. Bhargava]] || [[Vishnuvardhan (actor)|Vishnuvardhan]], [[Bhavya]], [[Tara (Kannada actress)|Tara]], [[Pandari Bai]], [[K. S. Ashwath]] || [[Rajan–Nagendra]] ||
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| ''Kendada Male'' || [[B. C. Gowrishankar]] || [[Devaraj]], Nagesh Kashyap, [[Sundar Krishna Urs]], Chandralekha || [[L. Vaidyanathan]] ||
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| ''[[Kurukshetra (1987 film)|Kurukshetra]]'' || [[H. R. Bhargava]] || [[Ananth Nag]], [[Saritha]], [[Bhavya]], [[Tara (Kannada actress)|Tara]], [[Charan Raj]], [[Doddanna]] || [[M. Ranga Rao]] ||
|-
| ''[[Manamecchida Hudugi]]'' || [[M.S.Rajshekar]] || [[Shivarajkumar]], [[Sudharani]], [[Sundar Krishna Urs]] || [[Upendra Kumar]] ||
|-
| ''[[Manasa Veene]]'' || [[Geethapriya]] || [[Sridhar (Kannada actor)|Sridhar]], [[Srinath (Kannada actor)|Srinath]], [[Saritha]] || [[M. Ranga Rao]] ||
|-
| ''Mr. Raja'' || [[V. Somashekhar]] || [[Ambareesh]], [[Mahalakshmi (kannada actress)|Mahalakshmi]], [[Tara (Kannada actress)|Tara]], [[Mukhyamantri Chandru]] || [[Hamsalekha]] ||
|-
| ''Mukhavada'' || M. D. Kaushik || [[Ramakrishna (Kannada actor)|Ramakrishna]], [[Tara (Kannada actress)|Tara]], [[Jayanthi (actress)|Jayanthi]], [[Loknath]] || K. P. Sukhdev ||
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| ''Nyaayakke Shikshe'' || Srinivas || [[Sridhar (Kannada actor)|Sridhar]], [[Bharathi (actress)|Bharathi]], [[Ambika (actress)|Ambika]], [[Charan Raj]] || [[Vijay Anand (composer)|Vijay Anand]] ||
|-
| ''[[Olavina Udugore]]'' || [[Rajendra Babu]] || [[Ambareesh]], [[Ilavarasi|Manjula Sharma]], [[Ramakrishna (Kannada actor)|Ramakrishna]], N. S. Rao || [[M. Ranga Rao]] ||
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| ''Onde Goodina Hakkigalu'' || Rajachandra || [[Tiger Prabhakar]], [[Lakshmi (actress)|Lakshmi]], Shubha, Vikram || [[Vijay Anand (composer)|Vijay Anand]] ||
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| ''[[Ondu Muttina Kathe]]'' || [[Shankar Nag]] || [[Dr. Rajkumar|Rajkumar]], [[Archana (actress)|Archana]], [[Mukhyamantri Chandru]], [[Doddanna]], [[Shivaram]] || [[L. Vaidyanathan]] ||
|-
| ''Poornachandra'' || [[C. V. Rajendran]] || [[Ambareesh]], [[Ambika (actress)|Ambika]], [[Srinath (Kannada actor)|Srinath]] || [[G. K. Venkatesh]] ||
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| ''[[Premaloka]]'' || [[Ravichandran (Kannada actor)|V. Ravichandran]] || [[Ravichandran (Kannada actor)|V. Ravichandran]], [[Juhi Chawla]], [[Leelavathi (actress)|Leelavathi]], [[Mukhyamantri Chandru]] || [[Hamsalekha]] ||
|-
| ''[[Pushpaka Vimana (1987 film)|Pushpaka Vimana]]'' || [[Singeetham Srinivasa Rao]] || [[Kamal Haasan]], [[Amala Akkineni|Amala]], [[Tinnu Anand]], [[Amjad Khan (actor)|Amjad Khan]], [[Prathap Pothan]] || [[L. Vaidyanathan]] ||
|-
| ''Ravana Rajya'' || [[T. S. Nagabharana]] || [[Devaraj]], [[Bhavya]], [[Tara (Kannada actress)|Tara]] || [[Vijay Anand (composer)|Vijay Anand]] ||
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| ''Sampradaya'' || Master Hirannayya || Master Hirannayya, [[Bharathi (actress)|Bharathi]], Seetharam || P. Vajrappa ||
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| ''[[Sangrama (film)|Sangrama]]'' || [[K. V. Raju]] || [[Ravichandran (Kannada actor)|Ravichandran]], [[Bhavya]], [[Lokesh]], [[Loknath]] || [[Hamsalekha]] ||
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| ''Sathwa Pareekshe'' || Srinivas || [[Tiger Prabhakar]], [[Bhavya]], [[Sridhar (Kannada actor)|Sridhar]], [[Jayachitra]] || [[Vijay Anand (composer)|Vijay Anand]] ||
|-
| ''[[Sathyam Shivam Sundaram (1987 film)|Sathyam Shivam Sundaram]]'' || [[K. S. R. Das]] || [[Vishnuvardhan (actor)|Vishnuvardhan]], [[Sumithra (actress)|Sumithra]], [[Radhika Sarathkumar|Radhika]], [[Vajramuni]] || [[K. Chakravarthy]] ||
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| ''Shivabhakta Markandeya'' || [[B. S. Ranga]] || [[Rajesh (Kannada actor)|Rajesh]], [[Roopa (actress)|Roopa Devi]], [[Padma Vasanthi]] || [[M. Ranga Rao]] ||
|-
| ''[[Shruthi Seridaaga]]'' || Chi. Dattaraj || [[Dr. Rajkumar|Rajkumar]], [[Madhavi (actress)|Madhavi]], [[Geetha (actress)|Geetha]], [[Balakrishna (Kannada actor)|Balakrishna]] || [[T. G. Lingappa]] ||
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| ''[[Shubha Milana]]'' || [[H. R. Bhargava]]|| [[Vishnuvardhan (actor)|Vishnuvardhan]], [[Ambika (actress)|Ambika]], [[Tara (Kannada actress)|Tara]], Uday, [[K. S. Ashwath]] || [[M. Ranga Rao]] ||
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| ''[[Sowbhagya Lakshmi]]'' || [[H. R. Bhargava]] || [[Vishnuvardhan (actor)|Vishnuvardhan]], [[Lakshmi (actress)|Lakshmi]], [[Radha (actress)|Radha]], [[Ramesh Bhat]] || [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]] ||
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| ''Sri Chamundeshwari Pooja Mahime'' || B V Srinivas || [[Ramakrishna (Kannada actor)|Ramakrishna]], [[Rohini (actress)|Rohini]], [[Vajramuni]] || Vijaya Krishnamurthy ||
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| ''Surya'' || [[Baraguru Ramachandrappa]] || [[Lokesh]], [[Rohini Hattangadi]], [[Maanu (actor)|Maanu]], [[Pramila Joshai]] || [[Vijaya Bhaskar]] ||
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| ''Thaliya Aane'' || [[D. Rajendra Babu]] || [[Tiger Prabhakar]], [[Bharathi (actress)|Bharathi]], [[Vinod Alva]], [[Ilavarasi|Manjula Sharma]] || [[Vijaya Bhaskar]] ||
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| ''Thayi'' || Perala || [[Ananth Nag]], [[Shankar Nag]], [[Bhavya]], [[Gayathri (actress)|Gayathri]], [[Tara (Kannada actress)|Tara]] || [[Satyam (music director)|Satyam]] ||
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| ''Thayi Kotta Thali'' || Ravindranath || [[Murali (Tamil actor)|Murali]], [[Mahalakshmi (kannada actress)|Mahalakshmi]], [[Lokesh]], [[Jayanthi (actress)|Jayanthi]] || [[M. Ranga Rao]] ||
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| ''Vijay'' || [[Jayanthi (actress)|Jayanthi]] || Rajashekar, Kim, [[Jai Jagadish]], [[Sundar Krishna Urs]], [[Jayamalini]] || [[M. Ranga Rao]] ||
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| ''Yaarigagi'' || Pradeep Kumar || [[Ramakrishna (Kannada actor)|Ramakrishna]], [[Sridhar (Kannada actor)|Sridhar]], [[Vijay Kashi]], Varnalatha, [[Leelavathi (actress)|Leelavathi]] || [[G. K. Venkatesh]] ||
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==See also==
*[[Kannada films of 1986]]
*[[Kannada films of 1988]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Cinema of Karnataka}}
{{1987 films}}
{{Indian film list|state=collapsed}}

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[[Category:Lists of Kannada films by year|1987]]
[[Category:Lists of 1987 films by language]]
[[Category:1987 in Indian cinema|Films, Kannada]]

List of Kannada films of 1987 - Revision history

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