Doddmane Hudga

<p>Surya is a short-tempered youngster, who cooks biriyani at a local market. He meets Usha when he saves her from goons and drops her off at a drama studio, where it is revealed that Usha is in fact Nisha, who is participating in a drama. ‘Cable’ Babu is a goon who wants to become a politician. When his goons were setting a shop on fire, they were all thrashed by Doddmane Rajeeva. When his son Krishna robs some , Rajeeva humiliates him. Krishna joins hands with Babu to humiliate Rajeeva. After that, Babu steals all the that belong to the farmers leading to Rajeeva’s arrest. Surya’s father, Mallanna suffers a and gets admitted to the hospital. In need of money to save Mallanna, Surya takes up the job of assassinating Rajeeva, and goes to prison to kill him. However, Surya ends up fighting a prisoner who was about to kill Rajeeva and is also sent to prison, where it is revealed that Surya is Rajeeva’s long-lost son. But Surya hates him and reveals to Nisha that his father did not care for him in his childhood. Surya reconciles with the rest of his family and returns home. After a cat-and-mouse game between Surya and Cable Babu, Krishna apologizes for his misdeeds and Cable Babu’s brother Manja gets killed. Rajeeva reveals that he didn’t care for Surya during his childhood because he promised his sister that he would always care for Krishna. Cable Babu stabs Rajeeva and Surya thrashes Babu and throws him in a tunnel, where Babu’s assistant kills Babu by burying him alive. Surya brings the farmers’ documents and Rajeeva recovers, where he distributes the documents back to the farmers, who realize their mistake and apologize to Rajeeva. The families reconcile and happily celebrate their village festival. In February 2014, it was reported that Soori and Puneeth Rajkumar would work together again under Ajay Pictures. was selected to compose the music for this film. The song recording was launched at the Prasad Recording Studios in Bangalore on 24 April 2014. Art director Shashidhar Adapa was selected to handle art direction for the film. The film’s cinematography was selected to Satya Hegde. In July 2014, it was reported that would play the female lead of the movie but later she walked out of the movie citing “remuneration problems”. After Ramya’s exit was roped to play lead actress role which marked her second collaboration with . Rebel star and were signed for portraying the parents role of Puneeth Rajkumar in the movie. Veteran actress was chosen to play the role of Ambareesh’s sister in the movie. , , , , , Udaya Raghav and Santosh Aryavardan of Bigboss 2 fame were chosen to play crucial role in the movie. began on 5 March 2015 at the temple of in , Bangalore. , actors , , , , , , , were among the film personalities present at the event. was signed to compose the soundtrack album and background score for the film. The song recording of the movie commenced on 24 April 2014, the birth anniversary of actor at Prasad Studios in Bangalore. Lyrics for the soundtrack were written by , and . The soundtrack album consists of five tracks. The first track “Abhimanigale” was released on 14 August by . Sunayana Suresh of rated the film 3.5/5 stars and wrote, “The story is predictable and the twists too, but a commercial entertainer excels when it makes the mundane magical. This is where Suri’s style, dialogues and characterizations work.” Shyam Prasad S. of gave it 3/5 stars and wrote, “While director Suri manages to serve a heavy meal. But he relies excessively on Puneeth’s star power rather than a chunky story, especially in the second half. He continues to dilute the plot with one fight sequence after another.” Shashiprasad S. M. of wrote, “The first half of this biryani which tasted good soon turns out to be an indigestible meal with heavy masala and too many bones further spoils the fun. Howsoever, its a full meals for the big fans of rebel and power star.”</p>