Raajakumara

<p>Siddharth is a helpful youngster and adopted son of Ashok, a kind-hearted corporate . He leads a happy life in , taking care of his father’s business and fighting for his native country’s pride. Siddharth meets and falls for Nandini, a and the daughter of Ashok’s friend Jagadeesh. Siddharth’s life takes a tragic turn as he loses his whole family in a flight crash and returns to to his orphanage headed by Krishna, who now runs an . Siddharth discovers that Ashok was framed for the deaths of infant children due to the introduced by Ashok for the poor people and he decides to prove Ashok’s innocence. Siddharth looks after the old people in an old age home and solves their problems, while also purchasing medicines for the children affected by the polio scheme. One day, Siddharth comes across Vishwa Joshi in the hospital, who also stays at the old-age home. Joshi reveals that the polio scheme was actually ruined due to the machinations created by his son Jagannath, the present of . Joshi wants to expose the illegal acts committed by Jagannath and was hiding in the old-age home for the right time to expose him. Siddharth supports Vishwa Joshi and makes Jagannath hand over the case to for further investigation in a . Jagannath tries to ruin their plans, where he gets the old age home and Joshi attacked by his henchmen. However, Jagannath has a change of heart, where he saves Joshi and surrenders himself to the police and all the old people reunite with their children, after realizing their mistakes from Siddharth, . In March 2016, it was reported that Director and would work together for the first time together. was selected to compose the music for this film. The film was highly expected due to its marketing. “Rajakumara is a different subject which portrays two different stories & the two stories are bridged between Appu’s character”, said Santhosh. Pre-production work, location hunt and casting finalisation required almost a year. was roped to play lead actress role which marked her debut in , collaboration with . The film has an ensemble cast starring , , , Achyuth Rao, Chikkanna, Datthanna, , and others. The film went on the floors on 22 April 2016. The first schedule took place in in various parts like , , and after which the crew did the rest of the shoot in , , , , and later in . The makers of his upcoming film, Raajakumara released the first look of the film on 17 March — to coincide with the actor’s 41st birthday. composed the soundtrack album and background score for the film. The full album was released on 6 March 2017. The song “Bombe Helutaithe” samples the beat of the song “Aadisi Nodi Beelisi Nodu” from the film . received positive reviews from critics. Sunayana Suresh from gave 4 out of 5 stars and wrote “The entire ensemble cast, right from comedians Rangayana Raghu and Achyuth Kumar to antagonist Prakash Raj and veterans like Ananth Nag, HG Dattatreya and Bhargavi Narayan have interesting characters sketched out that entertain you.” gave 4 out of 5 stars and wrote “This is a good family watch; the youths think on their mistakes, the oldies get relief, fans of Puneeth Rajakumar thoroughly enjoy.” Shashiprasad SM of gave 3 out of 5 stars and wrote “If family sentiment is your preferred mode of entertainment, then ‘Raajakumara’ will not disappoint you.” Archana Nathan of described the film as generic and wrote “There is very little that gives Raajakumara its identity or a clear storyline … Achyuth Kumar and Ananth Nag perform well but their roles too are too simplistically written.” Shyam Prasad of gave 3 out of 5 stars and wrote “The constant reference to Puneeth’s career and films goes overboard at times. The film becomes a tribute to the actor and a personality building exercise mostly. But he manages to pull off the role with the subtlety that proves his acting prowess again.” The film released in over 350 screens across . The makers claimed the movie grossed ₹46 crores even before completion of seven weeks. Though later there were reports of the movie having collected a little less than ₹100 crores, the tracked figures was ₹75 crore. It went on to become until the release of .</p>