Roberrt

<p>Raghava lives in with his son Arjun and is the head cook in a Brahmin caterer where he helps his caterer’s daughter Amrutha in a catering job, who soon falls for him for his honesty. Meanwhile, Balaram Tripathi, an ex-minister vows vengeance on Raghava: Balaram had planned an attempt on ministerial candidate Omkar Shukla after he was humiliated in a wrestling betting, but was saved by Raghava. Tripathi had arranged his son Kishan’s marriage with the ‘s daughter for political gain but was ruined by Raghava and Arjun. Tripathi kidnaps Raghava and tells his henchman to finish him off and Arjun (who was asleep in his home), who is held at gunpoint, but Raghava violently finishes all of them and Tripathi. Kishan seeks the help of a named Sarkar to kill Raghava and dispatches men to finish him. Raghava kills them without anyone’s knowledge, where Sarkar is astonished to see Raghava and reveals that Raghava is Roberrt and Arjun is not his son. When confronted by Amrutha, Raghava/Roberrt reveals his past. : Roberrt and Raghava are friends/brothers, who works for Sarkar’s elder brother Nanabhai in . Sarkar and Nanabhai were separated from each other due to jealousy. Later, Roberrt helps Raghava and Thanu express their love for each other to their parents, who declines, but later accepts their relationship. They get married and also bear a son named Arjun. Meanwhile, Roberrt and Raghava discovers Nana’s son Cherry indulging in and they kill him despite Nana’s requests. While celebrating Arjun’s birthday, Nana’s gang are attacked by unknown forces and Thanu gets killed in the crossfire. Depressed about Thanu’s death and worried about Arjun’s future, Raghava becomes approver to the cops by divulging Nana’s crimes to Sathyadev. Raghava finds that Nana has planned to kill him in an encounter and arrives at Roberrt’s den where he believes Roberrt to be involved in Nana’s plan, the two indulge in a fight. However, Nana arrives along with Sarkar and shoots Raghava and knocks Roberrt. Nana and Sarkar reveals that it was all their plan and also divulges that Nana is the main mastermind behind the human traffickling and Cherry was following his orders. Nana kills Thanu’s parents and throws a dead Raghava, Roberrt and an infant Arjun into a where they drown it in the sea. Roberrt and Arjun survive and escapes from the drowned container. Before dying, Roberrt promises Raghava that he will raise Arjun in a non-violent manner. : Roberrt/Raghava requests Amrutha to keep his past as a secret from Arjun. Nana learns about Roberrt/Raghava’s existence from Sarkar, where he arrives in Lucknow and traps Amrutha’s father Vishwanath Bhat in a food poisoning case. Nana also frames Roberrt/Raghava in Tripathi’s death, where he calls Roberrt/Raghava and divulges that they kidnapped Arjun and tells him to finish the matter once and for all. Roberrt/Raghava arrives and secretly finishes Nana, Kishan, and Sarkar in event. Production of the film began with the working title D53. Producers of and , Umapathy Films, announced that they would collaborate with under the direction of Tharun Kishore Sudhir, in whose debut movie (2017), Darshan had made a special appearance as . Principal photography began in June 2019. The first theme poster was released by the production house on 6 November 2018, while the title of the movie was announced as “Roberrt” on 25 December 2018 on Christmas. The second theme poster of the movie was released on 5 June 2019 on the eve of Ramzan festival. Coinciding with the announcement of the title, a theme poster was also released on 25 December 2018. The poster saw Darshan as the incarnation of Hanuman with Rama on his shoulder. was initially selected as the heroine of the movie but opted out due to dates issue. The shooting of the movie had been undergoing confidentially with mobile phones reportedly banned at the shoot locations. Director had revealed that would be portraying in the movie. The film’s songs are composed by . This marks the fourth collaboration of Arjun Janya and Darshan after , and . The rerecording of the movie is by V. Harikrishna. was released on 11 March 2021 along with dubbed version by the same name, on an eve of Festival in 1200 theatres worldwide. It was originally scheduled for a release in April 2020, The film was delayed for several months due to the . The film was released on about 1600 screens, including 650 in Karnataka and about 350 in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, 300 in rest of India and 300 in overseas. It was also dubbed in under the same title by RKD Studios. The digital rights of the film was bagged by . It was released for streaming on Amazon Prime Video on 25 April, in five languages – , , , and . The satellite rights of the and versions of the film, were taken by and . For the first time ever, the Kannada version was telecasted on 4 November, at 6:30 P.M. Sunayana Suresh, in her review for rated 4/5 and stated, “Darshan and Tharun Kishore Sudhir teaming up for the first time together for a full fledged film. The film, which releases almost a year after its original release date, manages to live up to that and ends up being more than just a mass action entertainer and has enough to cater to the family audience too.” Y Maheswara Reddy of rated 4/5 and stated, “Roberrt bilingual (Kannada and Telugu) movie has all the ingredients required to entertain mass audiences, especially the hard-core fans of Challenging Star Darshan. Though this movie was scheduled to be released in April 2020, it got postponed due to the pandemic. However, it has succeeded in meeting the expectation of movie buffs.” A Sharadhaa of rated 4/5 and stated, “Darshan-starrer ‘Roberrt’ is anything but a typical action fare from the Challenging Star. The actor, who is known for his mass appeal, also delivers an all-round performance that establishes his class credentials too.” on the first day of its release collected 17.24 crore in Karnataka. The film collected 3.12 crore in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on its first day . The movie was reported to have collected Rs. 78.36 crore in a week. The movie completed 25 days at theatres until they were shut due to the second wave of . Amidst reports of discrepancies in the official figures announced which the producer agreed to three years later – calling the earlier figures were inflated numbers and fabricated. Though the movie was claimed to have been a box office success, it was reported to have caused substantial loss. The producer alleged that he had to reject a profitable offer given by a prominent OTT platform during COVID-19 pandemic, purportedly on the insistence of the lead actor resulting in a loss of ₹13 crores. While reported the Telugu version had caused a loss of ₹1.55 crores, and announced that the Telugu dubbed version had profited only ₹16 lakhs. The producer also revealed that the movie had not grossed ₹100 crores and revealed the total business done by the movie was ₹55 crores only.</p>