Mukunda Murari

<p>The film follows the story of an atheist, Mukunda, who sues God after losing his shop in an earthquake. Religious organizations revolt against him and Murari visits him as his human guide. Atheist shopowner Mukunda ( ) talks about selling bulk statues of gods, and later tricks a devotee from into buying a statue by claiming it is famous. The lack of respect, as his family sees it, makes his wife sad and she makes their son write the name of for at least ten pages. After that, he criticises the practices of his son and wife. On the night of , he openly mocks a guru named Siddeshwara Swami who was encouraging his son and wife to walk on fire and pierce their tongues with a . However, after a dangerous in his market in , his antique shop was destroyed and had many financial liabilities. His in-law’s family had separated his wife and son from him. In January 2016, it was reported that director was under the preparation to remake the hit Bollywood film retaining the basic plot and giving it a native touch. Initially, the film was titled ‘Kiccha!! Nee Begane Baaro’, ‘Brahma Vishnu’, ‘Sri Krishanrjuna Vijaya’, ‘Super Star Mattu Bigg Boss’ and the makers roped in two of the biggest stars and to reprise the roles played by and respectively in the original version. Later the title was altered as the makers sound the earlier one was quite a common name. To bring the uniqueness to the title, it was renamed to . After having roped in Upendra and Sudeepa to play the protagonist roles, the makers were on the search for the female lead and approached actress hoping to bring her back to the screen after a long hiatus. Later ‘s name was also considered for this role. However, actress was finalized to play the wife role to Upendra. Further, actresses names such as , and were reported to play key supporting roles. Since none of these actresses were available, and Kaavya Shah were roped in to play those roles. The director went on to cast and to play other key roles. had composed the soundtrack and score for the film collaborating with for the third time after (2014), (2016) and for fourth time after (2011), (2013) and (2014). A total of four songs and one instrumental track were composed by him. The audio was officially released on 16 October 2016 through D Beats Music label. The film released in over 250 screens on 28 October 2016. The film was released on the occasion of . The film ran for 50 days in theaters.</p>