Jaggu Dada
Jaggu Dada is a 2016 Indian Kannada-language masala film directed and produced by Raghavendra Hegde. The film stars Darshan in the titular role and Deeksha Seth. Rachita Ram make guest appearances. It was released on 10 June 2016 across Karnataka.
The main character is part of a family of dons. His mother prepares an arranged marriage for him, with the indented bride being a bar dancer. His grandfather's ghost instead pressures him to find a moral girl to marry. The main character finds an ideal bride through a marriage bureau, but she is reluctant to marry a criminal.
Plot
Jaggu Dada belongs to a family of dons. His grandfather, Shankar Dada, retires from his don activities, realizing his mistake, insists that his son, Veeru Dada, and grandson, Jaggu Dada, also withdraw from their business. But Jaggu Dada's mother builds up an ambition to make him an international don and marry him off to a bar dancer, Champa. Shankar Dada, on his death bed, calls Jaggu and makes him vow not to indulge in don activities and marry a socially moral girl, not Champa. Upon his death, Shankar Dada is shown to become a spirit and begins haunting Jaggu to fulfill his promise.Jaggu Dada goes to Mumbai as 'Jayadev' not revealing his real identity. He takes the help of Gowri who runs a marriage bureau. After rejecting two girls, he meets another girl who wants to study but just accepts for her parents’ happiness. He helps her to talk to her parents. Later, he falls for Gowri who too later reciprocates it. But after learning of his criminal past she breaks up with him and is forced to marry a gunda. On the day of her marriage, Jaggu's mother and Champa realize their mistake and give hope to Gowri. Jaggu manages with the help of his grandfather's spirit to marry Gowri and live happily.
Cast
- Darshan as Jaggu Dada
- Deeksha Seth as Gowri
- Ananth Nag as Sathya Narayan
- P. Ravi Shankar as Shankar Dada
- Urvashi as Jaggu Dada's mother
- Srujan Lokesh as Majnu
- Sharath Lohitashwa as Veeru Dada
- Vishal Hegde as Venki
- Gayathri Iyer as Champa
- Rajat Bedi as Subhash Bhai, Mumbai don
- Amit Tiwari as Sakhti, Subhash Bhai's brother
- Achyuth Kumar as Uday Naik
- Shobhraj
- Sadhu Kokila as Sorcerer
- Bullet Prakash
- Rachita Ram in a guest appearance
- Deepika Kamaiah in a guest appearance
- Sanketh Kashi
Production
At Pompeii, the film unit shot some sequences making it the first Indian film to explore the place.
Soundtrack
The music of the movie is composed by V. Harikrishna. The audio was released on 9 May 2016 through D-Beats.The soundtrack is composed by V. Harikrishna and on 16 August 2015, the film's audio was launched.