Appu

<p>Appu, a carefree guy, is the son of Venkata Swamy, a . Venkata Swamy wants Appu to clear the exams and become an . One night, Appu, after playing carrom with his friends, is thrashed by a rival gang, but he is rescued by a girl Suchitra alias “Suchi”, who pays his hospital bills and donates her blood. She is gone from the hospital by the time Appu regains consciousness. Appu learns about Suchi from his friends and falls in love with her. Suchi later turns out to be the daughter of Rajashekhar, the . Appu meets Suchi in the college and proposes to her. When Suchi does not accept his proposal, Appu teases her which leads Suchi to complain about him to Rajshekhar, who takes Appu to the police station and severely thrashes him before being rescued by Venkata Swamy and Sudarshan. Appu becomes more adamant to win over Suchi and proposes to Suchi, who later accepts his feelings. Rajshekhar discovers their relationship and hires goons to thrash Appu. Suchi discovers this and runs to help him, but meets with an accident. Appu and Suchi get admitted to the same hospital, where they unite. Rajshekhar arranges her wedding with another person, to which she openly opposes and attempts suicide. Appu arrives and rescues her, but Rajshekhar still wants to get Suchi married to a man of his own choice, he also engages goons to kill Appu. Appu finally escapes all the troubles and meets the to ask for help to marry Suchi. The DGP finally suspends Rajshekhar and arranges Appu’s wedding in the police station. In the aftermath, Appu finally clears the IPS exams with flying colors. After the success of (2001), Puri Jagannadh was approached by the Rajkumar family to introduce their third son Puneeth Rajkumar to make his onscreen debut as the lead actor. Puri gladly accepted the opportunity. Jagannadh had originally decided to make the film’s script into a Telugu film first, but at ‘s insistence he first made it in Kannada. Rakshitha, daughter of cameraman B.C. Gowrishankar made her acting debut with this film, and she went on to play the same character in its Telugu and Tamil remakes. Shiva Rajkumar named the film , which was Puneeth Rajkumar’s pet name. composed the film’s background score and music for its soundtrack, with the lyrics written by , Sriranga and . The soundtrack album consists of six tracks. In 2002, before the release of this movie, journalist whipped up a storm with his cover-page article in his popular tabloid writing about the buzz around the film and posed a big question to his readers: A critic from wrote that “This is a film for all. Buy a ticket and have two and half hours of good summer vacation in Bangalore theatres”. According to National Award-winning film critic M K Raghavendra, “Puneeth’s characters matched the Kannada sentiments.The rebellious attitude of Appu in the movie represented the locals who felt discriminated by the state during Bengaluru’s growth as a cosmopolitan city. The angle of the generation gap in the movie connected well with the youngsters”.</p>