Hudugaru

Hudugaru
Directed by Maadesh
Produced by Parvathamma Rajkumar
Starring
Music by V. Harikrishna
Cinematography Satya Hegde
Editing by Deepu S Kumar
Studio Poornima Enterprises
Release date(s) May 5, 2011 (2011-05-05)
Country India
Language Kannada
Budget 5 crores
Box office 30 crores (first 10 weeks)

Hudugaru (Kannada:ಹುಡುಗರು) is a 2011 Kannada-language drama film directed by Maadesh, starring Puneet Rajkumar, Yogesh, Srinagar Kitty and Radhika Pandit in the lead roles. The film, which is a remake of the successful 2010 Tamil film Naadodigal, has been produced by Parvathamma Rajkumar. While V. Harikrishna has composed the soundtrack, Satya Hegde has worked on the cinematography. The film released on 5 May 2011. It is doing great at box office similar to Powerstar Puneet Rajkumar's last film Jackie which is one of all time blockbusters of Kannada Cinema[1]

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Plot

Three youths – Prabhu, Chandru and Siddesh (Puneeth Rajakumar, Srinagara Kitty and Yogesh respectively) aspiring for government job, computer center and to settle in Dubai are struck with a bad luck in life when Sudhir (Vishal Hegde) a best friend of Prabhu.

Prabhu with his best friends Chandru and Siddesh decide to kidnap the daughter of business tycoon so that his friend Sudhir (son of former MP) lives happily. In the process of kidnap of Sushma fiancé of Sudhir – Prabhu is hit badly on his forehead, Chandru loses his right leg and Siddesh becomes deaf.

It is not just that in the life of trios. The destiny is very bad when they are back to their native place. Prabhu loses his lover for someone, Siddesh is sent out from the home, Chandru losing a leg finds Pavitra, sister of Prabhu for his life.

The story takes a curious turn when the marriage out of struggle between Sudhir and Sushma breaks up. The trio goes back to the same place where they received brutal injuries and question the lovers on separation

Cast

Character map of remakes

Naadodigal
Tamil (2009)
Shambo Shiva Shambo
Telugu (2010)
Hudugaru
Kannada (2011)
Ithu Nammude Katha
Malayalam (2011)
Karunakaran
(Sasikumar)
Karunakar
(Ravi Teja)
Prabhu
(Puneet Rajkumar)
Vinod
(Asif Ali)
Rangapandi
(Bharani)
Malli
(Allari Naresh)
Siddesh
(Yogesh)
Kochumon
(Abhishek)
Chandran
(Vijay Vasanth)
Chandu
(Siva Balaji)
Chandru
(Srinagar Kitty)
Santhosh
(Nishan)
Nallammaal
(Ananya)
Karunakar's cousin
(Priyamani)
Gayathri
(Radhika Pandit)
Kalyani
(Ananya)
Pavithra
(Abhinaya)
Karunakar’s sister
(Abhinaya)
Pavithra
(Abhinaya)
Ammu
(Nimisha Suresh)

Release

The film released on 5 May 2011 in around 130 plus cinema screens all over Karnataka. Also efforts are being made to release the film in overseas market in the month of May. The film has been sold to various distributors in the state for fancy prices and is slated to be on par with Puneet's earlier mega hit film Jackie.

Soundtrack

V. Harikrishna's music for the movie have been widely appreciated. The lyrics are written by Jayanth Kaikini, Yograj Bhat and Nagendra Prasad.

Song Title Singers
"Naa Board Irada Bus" V. Harikrishna, Mamta Sharma, Naveen Madhav
"Neerinalli Sanna Ale" Sonu Nigam, Sunitha Upadrashta
"Yen Chandane Hudugi" Sukhwinder Singh, Kailash Kher, Vijay Prakash, Priya Himesh
"Shambo Shiva Shambo" Shankar Mahadevan
"Neerinalli Sanna Ale" Sunitha Gopuraj

References

  1. ^ "'Hudugaru' Equal Initial Compared To 'Jackie'". 'Hudugaru' Equal Initial Compared To 'Jackie'