Yaare Koogadali


Yaare Koogadali is a 2012 Indian Kannada-language action film written and directed by Samuthirakani, starring Puneeth Rajkumar and Bhavana. Parvathamma Rajkumar and Raghavendra Rajkumar, Puneeth's mother and brother, respectively, produced the film under for Poornima Enterprises. The film is a remake of Samuthirakani's Tamil film Poraali.
Movie Completes 50-days run 49 centre in Karnataka.

Plot

The story begins on a rainy night when Kumara and Natesha escape from NIMHANS and enter Bangalore with their past actions unclear. They settle at Shishupala's residence and find jobs at a petrol bunk. Bharathi comes into Kumara's life. Her initial wrong belief about him changes as soon as she gets to know his kind heart when she sees him helping people in need. She pursues him to take her as his girlfriend, but he is not interested and warns her away due to his lifestyle. However, the residents of his neighborhood convince him that she loves him and is a good girl. He accepts her. Soon, love blooms between them. Kumara, along with his friends, starts a venture where customers can call and order a product, such as groceries, and the friends would buy and deliver them at a service charge. While distributing their venture's ads, they narrowly escape being spotted by a van with goons spearheaded by Ravishankar who are in search of Kumara and Natesha. Soon, their business grows well. This prompts Shishupala to give an advertisement about their venture in a magazine with their photo. But due to the advertisement, the goons come to their store to attack them. Within a few minutes, a childhood friend of Kumara arrives in Bangalore and shares some news.
The goons convince everyone in Kumara's neighborhood that he is mentally ill. Bharathi also happened to know the news, and Kumara narrates his past to her. Kumara was born in a wealthy family and was very intelligent in his studies. But his father pursued his mother as an insane person to marry another woman. Immediately after the marriage, Kumara's stepmother's family also shifted to their house and started to control the whole family. The brother and father of the stepmother stopped Kumara's education by stating that he had a mental illness like his mother. Kumara's grandfather, who got to know these conspiracies, had Kumara fly from the village to ensure his good life with the help of his henchman Era. But the plan failed as the family of the stepmother killed Kumar's grandfather.
The little Kumara never knew these cruelties towards him until Era came back and told him the truth after many years. By knowing all the doings of his father, stepmother, and her family, Kumara rushed to kill all of them, but was caught by their goons. They admitted him to a mental hospital, where the doctor continuously gave him shock treatments by accepting bribes. All the treatments in the Asylum made Kumara lose his strength. Another doctor in the asylum was noticing the plight of Kumara. He showed sympathy towards him and advised him to go to another place where no one knew him, so that he could lead a good life there with new relations instead of killing his enemies. By these words, Kumara decides to flee from the asylum. While he was leaving, Natesha followed him, whom Kumara saved from a mental stroke.
Kumar's grandfather wrote all the property in his name, so the family is still searching for Kumara to snatch the property from him.
Kumara said to Bharathi that they should leave the city before they could reach him. But Bharathi pursued him to fight back with them instead of running, as it would make them run their life. Finally, Kumar fights with them and gives all his property to the family by warning that, in the aftermath, no one should disturb him as he will live in this city.

Cast

Yaare Koogadali began filming in June 2012 at Rajkumar's residence with Puneeth Rajkumar and Yogesh in the lead roles. V. Ravichandran made the first clap for a scene. Initially, Sameera Reddy was considered and signed for the lead role, but was later replaced by Bhavana, marking her second collaboration with Puneeth Rajkumar after Jackie The film's title was inspired from an old song "Yaare Koogadali Oore Horadali" in Sampathige Savaal which featured Puneeth's father Dr. Rajkumar in the lead role.

Release

The film was released on 20 December 2012 during Christmas weekend.

Soundtrack

Popular composer V. Harikrishna scored the songs and soundtrack. Director Yogaraj Bhat wrote the lyrics for one song, while the rest were written by Dr. V Nagendra Prasad.

Reception

Critical response

A critic from The Times of India scored the film at 3.5 out of 5 stars and says "Girish Karnad impresses with his small but important role as a doctor. Music by V Harikrishna has some catchy tunes. Cinematography by M Sukumaran is amazing". Srikanth Srinivasa from Rediff.com scored the film at 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "Harikrishna's background score is breezy and the film doesn't bore the viewer with unwanted songs. This movie is a neat family entertainer and worth a watch". A critic from NDTV wrote  "Sukumar's camera work is excellent, while Guru Prasad's dialogues are funny and precise. Overall, it is an enjoyable film, which offers a lot of variety of entertainment". Shruti I L from DNA wrote "Yes, there could have been less bloodshed and better music. Actors like Achyutha and Rakesh should also have been put to better use and the second half could have been crisper. But don’t make these your reasons to not watch the film". A critic from Bangalore Mirror wrote  "The background music is loud and hampers a decent sleep while watching the film. The camerawork is better than most other aspects of the film. Sukadhare’s break from filmmaking has not worked for him or the audience".

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