Hebbuli

Hebbuli
Film poster
Directed by	S. Krishna
Written by	Siri (dialogues)
Story by	S. Krishna
Produced by	Raghunath Umapathy Srinivas
Starring	Sudeep V. Ravichandran Amala Paul P. Ravi Shankar Kabir Duhan Singh Ravi Kishan
Cinematography	A. Karunakar
Edited by	Deepu S. Kumar
Music by	Arjun Janya
Production companies	SRV Productions
Distributed by	Mysore Talkies
Release date	23 February 2017 (2017-02-23)
Running time	180 minutes[1]
Country	India
Language	Kannada
Budget	₹ 20 crores [2]
Box office	₹100 crore [3]

Hebbuli (transl. Ferocious tiger) is a 2017 Kannada action film directed by S. Krishna.^[4] The film features Sudeep and V. Ravichandran, who teamed up for the second time after Maanikya (2014).^[5] Amala Paul made her debut in Kannada cinema. P. Ravi Shankar, Kabir Duhan Singh and Ravi Kishan (also making his Kannada debut) play the antagonists.^[6]

Produced by SRV Productions and Umapathy Films. The cinematography is by A. Karunakar. The soundtrack and film score are composed by Arjun Janya. Principal photography commenced in Bangalore in mid June 2016, continuing in Hyderabad, Jammu-Kashmir, and Iceland.

The film was released on 23 February 2017.

Plot[]

The story begins with Para commando Captain Ram rescuing 3 doctors of their relief camp, including Dr. Nandini from terrorists. Nandini falls in love with him, but does not express it. One night, Ram receives a letter stating that his brother IAS officer Sathyamurthy is dead. He arrives at Bangalore and takes the case himself, which had been dismissed as a suicide. He discusses this with Sathyamurthy's brother-in-law, ACP Prathap. Prathap says that his brother Sathyamurthy once punished a corporator for an illegal act. The next day he was arrested for killing the corporator and is suspended and next day he was found dead. He tells him to reopen the case since he feels it to be a murder. He gets a clue from his brother's room that someone hanged his brother and finds the culprit to be of height around 6'2" to 6'3" and left-handed.

Ram also asks his brother's wife, Anuradha Sathyamurthy. She describes two incidents:

• One day, his brother got arrested and was suspended.
• His brother got tensed about his driver's family's suicide (His driver came to him for help for his daughter's operation as she had cancer. Sathyamurthy decided to help him. The next day they were found dead).

The police interrogated all the goons of the characteristics given by Ram, but one is left. Ram goes to his place in order to get him arrested, but he escapes with the help of his henchmen and got hit by a car. Later a man named Kabir kills him. In the house, Ram sketches the car driver's picture and his tattoo. He asks Nandini about him to find him. Nandini finds him in a gym and while tracking him she is captured by him in his hideout but Ram reach his hideout on time and saves her after fight and starts to chase him. They reach to under construction building where Ram confront him and tell to speak the truth but he is so scared to take their name as he tells him that they are very powerful people and killed himself by falling off the building. But Ram took his mobile phone and after decoding his mobile data with the help of his army personnel, Ram discover who are the real people behind his brother's death.

The culprit is revealed to be minister Arasikere Anjanappa. Ram fears him and wants revenge. Feared, Anjanappa calls his partner Amruth Shah who is the president of the pharmaceutical association and tells him about Ram. They send Kabir to follow Ram. Ram sees a his bike parked and sets a trap. Amruth calls him back.

Ram eventually captures Kabir and reveals the truth at gunpoint. The truth was that Sathyamurthy decided to start generic medicine after he got disturbed by the driver's family's suicide. He discusses it with Anjanappa, but Anjanappa joins Amruth Shah and Kabir to use medicine as a business. Sathyamurthy opposes them. Anjanappa gets Sathyamurthy arrested for false charge of murder and suspended from his job. One night Sathyamurthy calls him, recording the calls for evidence. Anjanappa, Amruth and Kabir decide to kill him. Kabir secretly barged into Sathyamurthy's house with his henchman one night and asked for the documents of the generic medicine putting his wife and daughter at gunpoint. Kabir then finally kills him.

Amruth Shah and Anjanappa torture his brother's wife and says Ram will abandon his mission and give them evidence. They planned to kill him and kidnap his brother's daughter. Ram joins the army. The army rescues Sathyamurthy's daughter. Ram takes Kabir to them. Anjanappa and Amruth Shah kill Kabir for revealing their secrets and beat Ram. Anjanappa then reveals the whole truth of Sathyamurthy's death and he along with Amruth beat him up and leave him for dead. However, he survives and reveals that he recorded the whole incident with a spy camera hidden on his jacket and broadcast it on TV, to secretly reveal their true colour. Finally, Ram kills them.

Cast[]

• Sudeep as Captain Ram
• V. Ravichandran as Sathya Moorthy, an IAS Officer & brother of Ram
• Amala Paul as Dr. Nandini
• Kabir Duhan Singh as Kabeer
• P. Ravi Shankar as Arasikere Anjanappa
• Ravi Kishan as Amruth Shah
• Ravi Kale as Chief Officer Murali Menon
• Kalyani as Anuradha Sathya Moorthy (Satya's wife)
• Avinash as ACP Prathap
• Chikkanna as Sundara (Harish in Hindi version)
• Anil Kumar as the suspect
• Sanjeev Sarovar as a school teacher
• Prachi R. Naik as Ritu (Sathya Moorthy's daughter)

Production[]

Casting[]

After hiring Sudeep to play the protagonist, the director cast P. Ravi Shankar to play a negative role opposite Sudeep. Since the plot required a parallel male lead to play Sudeep's brother, the director approached V. Ravichandran to play the character. Actress Amala Paul, who was on the lookout for a fresh script in Kannada, was signed to play the female lead. For the other antagonist roles, Kabir Duhan Singh and finally Ravi Kishan were selected.^[7]

Costume design[]

Sudeep sported a unique hairstyle in the film in which half of his hair was kept short while the other half was grown long and tied back.^[8]

Release[]

The film opened on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri on 23 February 2017 on 400 screens across the country.^[9] In 3 January 2019, the film's Tamil version Poiyattam was successful released.^[10] The film was also dubbed and released in Hindi in 2018.

Box Office[]

The film completed 50 days in many centers across Karnataka.

Soundtrack[]

Arjun Janya scored the soundtrack and film score. He composed six songs, including one theme song.^[11] The audio was released on 25 December 2016 at Davangere in the presence of the cast and crew. The songs were leaked before Audio Launch. Music label, Zee Music acquired the audio rights making it the firm's first ever Kannada project.^[12]

Reception[]

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References[]

External links[]

• Hebbuli at IMDb