Kool: Sakkath Hot Maga


Kool: Sakkath Hot Maga is a 2011 Indian Kannada-language romance film starring Ganesh and Sana Khan. The film marks the directorial debut of Ganesh and Kannada acting debut of Sana Khan. His wife, Shilpa Ganesh produced this movie under the home banner 'Golden Movies' marking her debut as producer. V. Harikrishna has composed the music and a long associate, Ratnavelu works as the cameraman.

Plot

Rahul and Kajal are two college students, Rahul lives a carefree life with his friends and father. He meets Kajal at the college where they start off with enmity, but soon become friends and lovers. However, on Valentine's Day Rahul is killed in a truck accident and dies leaving his father and Kajal devastated. Kajal is sent to Darjeeling by her parents to stay with her grandparents and recover herself. Kajal leaves for Darjeeling and is shell shocked to know her neighbour Manohar Jaranganalli, who is a music freak and a doppelganger of Rahul.
MJ meets Kajal and falls for her and enquires why she didn't meet Rahul. Kajal reveals that Rahul's former friend Keerthi, whose brother had arrived at her house and revealed that Rahul had betrayed Keerthi, because of which Keerthi committed suicide. But Rahul had told her about Keerthi, and was on her way to meet him, and learned about Rahul's accident, she was too late and Rahul died. In a final twist it is revealed that MJ is actually Rahul and that he faked his death to know who is the actual perpetrator behind his murder as the truck driver mentioned Kajal's name.
Rocky, Rahul's friend calls Rahul and tells him the perpetrator kidnapped Kajal. Rahul arrives and is knocked out by Rocky, who reveals himself as the mastermind behind his accident and also Keerthi's death. Rocky was in love with Keerthi, but she loved Rahul due to which Rocky killed her and made it look like a suicide. He also loved Kajal, but realizing that Rahul would be a hindrance to his love, he had planned to kill him and created Keerthi's brother's character. A fight ensues, in which Rocky falls to his death while attacking Rahul. Thus Rahul reunites with Kajal.

Cast

Reception

Shruti Indira Lakshminarayana from Rediff.com scored the film at 2 out of 5 stars and says "Rathnavelu's camerawork adds charm to the song, as well as the second half of te film. Watch Kool if you must. And just like the film, the makers leave it to the audience to figure out why the film has been called so! Kool promised to come as a summer respite but instead adds to the heat". A critic from The New Indian Express wrote "The technical crew has done their job perfectly, but nothing can be recognised much because of a bad story. ‘Kool’ fails to bring in some cool breeze in this hot summer. At the most it is just an average affair". A critic from Bangalore Mirror wrote  "Ganesh attempts too many things in this film, making it a mess of everything.He sings, co-writes dialogues, gets his wife to produce the movie. Unwarranted and avoidable. Not Kool at all". Sharanya C R of DNA India wrote, "Unfortunately, what doesn’t quite work is the art of storytelling, which could have been tighter. Ganesh, as a director, is yet to prove his capability but as an actor, he can still rock the screen".