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Release, runtime and language
2018 · 155 mins · Kannada
Directed by
S. Mahesh Kumar
Starring
Sadhu Kokila, P. Ravi Shankar, Tabla Nani, Sathish Ninasam, Rachita Ram, Kuri Prathap
Budget
$30M

Sidda wants to provide basic amenities to his village in Mandya, by becoming a gram panchayat member, but he faces several ordeals to complete his mission.

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  1. 1 What it is about
  2. 2 Is it worth watching?
  3. 3 After you watch
  4. 4 Movie threads
  5. 5 Every angle

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In a city where the line between law and corruption dissolves into gray, Karnan rises from orphaned streets to wear the badge of a Sub-Inspector — though his relationship with justice is anything but straightforward. For him, the uniform represents opportunity rather than duty, a gateway to comfort and influence built on calculated pragmatism. His methods are swift and efficient, guided less by moral principle than by a survival instinct sharpened on hard pavements. The department around him hums with competing philosophies, and Karnan moves through it with an ease that draws wary glances from colleagues who still believe in what the badge is supposed to mean.

His path creates uneasy alliances in spaces where right and wrong become negotiable terms. Every choice ripples outward, touching lives he barely acknowledges, yet the momentum of his ambition carries him forward. There's a confidence to his stride that suggests nothing can touch him — until circumstances begin to shift the ground beneath his feet. Sindhu enters his world and quietly disrupts the logic he has built his life around. Her birthday celebration draws Karnan into a moment that asks more of him than any transaction before, presenting a choice that doesn't fit the calculations he's always relied on.

The city watches and waits, unaware that one man's reckoning with his own compromises might soon force a confrontation with everything he's enabled. What begins in self-interest must eventually face the weight of consequences — and somewhere in that tension lies a truth that could cost more than he ever intended to pay.

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