Kranti

<p>Kranti Rayanna is an who is called by his master, Srikantaiah, to attend the 100th celebration of the he studied in his childhood. Kranti returns home from and meets a school teacher named Sadashivayya who reveals to Kranti that his school along, with 12,000 other government schools, is in danger of Salatri, a shrewd businessman, who wants to privatise the government schools by issuing a government order with the help of corrupt Vaman Rao and Narasappa, a gangster. After learning this, Kranti wages a revolution against Salatri, Vaman Rao, Narasappa. He thrashes Narasappa’s son, Nanjappa, and forcefully closes the private schools to seek attention from the , who later holds a meeting with Kranti. At the meeting, Kranti makes an eye-opening speech about the necessity for government schools to provide free education in order to remove the parents’ burden. The Chief Minister is convinced and issues orders to renovate government schools and not to privatize them. Later, Vaman Rao resigns himself from his position, while Salatri is arrested for his illegal activities. The film was tentatively known as #D55. On 10 September 2021, its official title was unveiled as . The film was then launched on 15 October 2021. The music of the film is composed by . The first single titled “Dharani” was released on 10 December 2022. The second single “Bombe Bombe” was released on 18 December 2022. The third single “Pushpavati” was released on 25 December 2022. The film was theatrically released on 26 January 2023 coinciding with . The satellite rights of the film were sold to for ₹12-13 crore and streaming rights to for ₹17.5 crore. It was premiered on Amazon Prime Video from 23 February 2023. The film was panned by the critics, with Deccan herald terming the movie “old-school and tiresome” and News Minute characterising it as “silly both in writing and in execution”. The non-theatrical collections were reported to be around ₹46 crores. The cumulative collections of theatrical, digital and satellite rights were reported to be ₹100 crores. Amidst reports of total collections of a paltry ₹18 crore, reports emerged that the movie was one of the highest grosser of the year, though the collections were only ₹41 crores. This was the second of 2023.</p>