Jackie

<p>Janakirama aka is a talkative who is living with his mother Jayamma and operates a in a village with his mother. Jackie dreams of making it big without hard work and is also an expert and thinks he can repay all his debts with earnings from it. Jackie does every job and hopes that he would make it big as a dealer. In his locality, Jackie’s friend Yashodha, who is a priest’s daughter, reveals that she is in love with a owner Seena and asks Jackie to help her get married. Jackie initially tries to help, but when the priest questions him regarding his responsibilities of a brother, Jackie decides to cop out of the issue, respecting the aged father’s feelings. Losing all hope, Yashodha elopes with Seena, along with a blind girl Puttavva. Unknown to Yashoda, Seena is actually a conduit for a named Rama. The priest is under the impression that Jackie is the mediator in this case. Jackie takes responsibility to trace Yashodha and bring her back. Meanwhile, Jackie is followed by a and his team as he has sheltered his friend Tulasi, who has escaped from prison. The CID officer tracks them down and kills Tulasi, but Jackie escapes from the police and reaches a dense forest. Jackie also averts a ritual of where Lakshmi is the intended victim. The trouble shoots up for Jackie as even the CID officer and his team are after him. After landing in , Jackie finds that Puttavva, who went with Yashodha is dead. Jackie gets a clue about Prasanna alias after being friendly to constable “Meese” Bheemanna which leads him to suspicious activities of a gang transporting girls abroad in headed by Mithai. When the CID officer catches him, Jackie explains the situation by tracking them with the help of Lakshmi. Not trusting the CID officers, Jackie escapes and saves Mithai, and they reach the hideout. Having guessed that Jackie is with the cops, Mithai confronts him where he divulges the truth and is taken to see Yashoda. A fight erupts where Jackie is knocked out and is partially buried with Yashoda. Mithai and Seena leave with the girls in oil tankers. However, Jackie awakes from the site along with Yashoda, he tracks down Mithai and Seena and thrashes them. The girls are saved and the CID officer realizes the situation; he congratulates Jackie for solving the case and kills Seena and Rama in an . Jackie tells Yashoda to call her father and Lakshmi, who has fallen for Jackie, proposes to him in a comical fashion by holding him at . Jackie takes his mother to see Yashoda and also introduces Lakshmi. The production of the film started on 3 March at and took place for 95 days in , , and . The film is made in the home production of ‘s family under the banner of Poornima Enterprises. Jackie is Puneet’s 15th film and his first with Duniya Soori. The film marks the debut of Malayalam actress in Kannada language films. Duniya Soori, who is known for maintaining his script and characters as a secret, had earlier revealed that the film is about how life takes a turn for Jackie and the way he faces the challenges and added that the film would be different from Puneet’s earlier films. Soori was initially “scared” to be directing a Puneeth Rajkumar flick just because of the enormous expectations from the audience. has been used extensively in the film’s song and stunt sequences, giving it a point-of-view feel. The director-actor went on to collaborate with films like and . The remake rights were purchased by NS Rajkumar, who dubbed the film into and languages for a 2011 release. Jackie received an opening unprecedented in after it was purchased by distributors at astronomical prices many days before the film’s release. was released all over apart from 4 in and a 3 in . The film, which was initially slated for a 23 September 2010, was later postponed to 14 October 2010 owing to pending work on . was released overseas by Bevin Exports in the countries of , , , , , and among others. The same firm had earlier released other Kannada blockbusters like and worldwide. The global distribution will be on a 50:50 sharing between Poornima Enterprises and Bevin Exports. It was screened in , and on 7 November, where it was well received by the audience, which also consisted of non- . A similar reception was reported in Germany, where the screening took place in mid-December. In the UK, it was screened in the months of November and December in association with Gandhadagudi Movies Team. The film was part of the Indian Melbourne Film Festival on 29 Dec. In United States, was released in a phase-wise manner from the 2nd week of Jan 2011. In its first phase, screening was held in and . In the next phase, the film was screened in , , and . In , the film was screened on 6 March 2011. The Telugu dubbed version was produced by Nadella Sujatha through Suraj Films Studio and was released in on 6 May 2011. The movie re-released on 15 March 2024 in 175 centres and earned ₹1crore on the first day. wrote “An action-packed thriller with Puneet Rajkumar at his best.” wrote “‘Jackie’ is an enjoyable fast paced entertainer. The audiences will be pleased to watch this film, which is high on entertainment quotient, strong on visuals and packed with breathtaking action.” Shruti Indira Lakshminarayana of described the film as a one-time watch and wrote “Jackie caters both to the class and the mass. It has a fair share of both sentiments and action and even comes with a message on human trafficking.” Kannada soundtrack was released in the month of August 2010. In a first of its kind, audio was simultaneously released over by a -based company called TELiBrahma. TELiBrahma developed an exclusive mobile application for the film and distributed it across about 100 of its proprietary technology called locations in Bengaluru. Considered a success, this campaign resulted in nearly 55,000 downloads in 16 days. Overall, the commercial reception of the album was successful, with 20,000 audio CDs being sold on the first day. The music album was released again on a during celebration on 27 December 2010. The music was composed by and lyrics were penned by . A portion of the song from ‘s 1980 movie was re-used in the title track of this movie. All lyrics are written by . The soundtrack of the film created quite a stir before the audio release when the song “Ekka Raja Rani” was leaked on . This song, though unfinished, became quite popular with listeners. Telugu version audio release was held on 26 February 2011 at Hotel Daspalla in with Telugu film personalities and as chief guests. , Vennelakanti and Vanamali have composed the Telugu lyrics.</p>