Apoorva

<p>Rajshekhar (Ravichandran) is a 61 year old painter and married by circumstances to his manager’s daughter. They have a son but marriage is not that normal type. Rajshekhar for past 40 years goes in to a mall and do painting. One bad day when he goes in his bag is used as vehicle of getting weapons in to mall by terrorist (Sudeepa) gang for kind of terrorist activities. The picturisation of this act is so new that the viewer only listen to it from inside elevator where the Rajshekhar and Apoorva (Apoorva) are stuck. By end of the mall elevator episode the Apoorva falls in love with the Rajshekhar. He will also announce his love story to the family. He will come to meet the Apoorva who is a TV anchor where he learns that she has a boyfriend and she refuse to accept Rajshekhar as his lover. Most of the film is shot in a lift at Ravichandran’s residence who altered it just to shoot for the Movie. Ravichandran expects this movie to be better than . The movie contains quotes about love such as “Death, a reason to love. Love, a reason to die”, “The world does not matter to the person who has fallen in love”, etc. The audio rights of the film was bought by Lahari Music for 72 lakh, a record deal in Kannada film industry. The deal was finalised on 1 January 2015. The audio of the film was released on . The audio launch was exclusively telecast on and featured top stars of Kannada industry. Prior to the launch, revealed, “Each song from Apoorva will be launched by celebrities including , , , , , and . has already worked in the film and will host the launch with me,” and added, “I want everybody to enjoy Valentine’s Day with us and make it a special day of love. Everyone should get ready for this special musical treat and Valentine date with Apoorva.” All lyrics are written by . The film received negative reviews from critics. Sunayana Suresh of rated the film two out of five stars and wrote, “The film has the trademark Ravichandaran touch, when it comes to showcasing the new girl Apoorva. But, it does not give the same old romance that he is famous for. Instead, here’s mature wine, with also talks philosophy.” Shyam Prasad S of gave the film one-and-a-half out of five stars and opined that “a small but good story buried under the glamorous garbage. The story is worthy of a 30-minute short film and, if you manage to sit through the almost two-and-a-half hours of , it is a cumbersome task to distill the story out.” Shashiprasad SM of gave the film a negative review and wrote that “The actress Apoorva is not what we all have been seeing in Ravichandran’s film and the other disheartening fact is that the debutant can hardly act.”</p>