KGF
K.G.F: Chapter 1 is a 2018 Indian Kannada-language period action film[6][7] written and directed by Prashanth Neel, and produced by Vijay Kiragandur under the banner Hombale films. It is the first instalment in the two-part series, followed by K.G.F: Chapter 2. The film centres around Raja Krishnappa Bairya "Rocky", born into poverty, who arrives in Bombay (now Mumbai) in the 1960s, on a quest for power and wealth as desired by his dying mother. Involved with the gold mafia there, he is recruited to kill Garuda, the oppressive heir-in-waiting, in Kolar Gold Fields. Yash stars as Rocky, while debutante Ramachandra Raju features as Garuda. Anant Nag narrates the film while also playing a supporting role alongside Srinidhi Shetty, Vasishta N. Simha, Ayyappa P. Sharma and Harish Rai. At the 66th National Film Awards, the film won 2 awards for Best Action and Best Special Effects.[8]
The development of the film began in early 2015 when Neel completed writing the screenplay.[9] However, filming began only two years later, in March 2017.[10] Majority of the film is set in Kolar Gold Fields and was filmed on location.[11] Bhuvan Gowda served as the cinematographer and Shrikanth as the editor. Ravi Basrur scored music for the soundtrack and the film's background.[12]
After a North American premiere on 20 December 2018, K.G.F: Chapter 1 was released in Kannada and in dubbed versions of Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam languages the following day, and received positive response from audiences.[13] However, critics gave the film mixed reviews; while they praised the cinematography, art direction and the film's score, the screenplay and editing were criticised. The film performed well commercially and collected ₹76 crore four days into release, in the process breaking the record for the highest grossing Kannada film of all time.[14] The movie was released online by Amazon Prime Video on 5 February 2019[15] which earlier bought the digital rights for ₹18 crores and Colors Kannada bought the satellite rights for an undisclosed record price.[16] The shooting for K.G.F: Chapter 2 began on 13 March 2019.
Plot
Journalist Anand Ingalagi's book El-Dorado, that detailed events at the Kolar Gold Fields between 1951 and present day, has been banned by the Government of India and all published copies burnt. However, a television news channel procures a copy and interviews him circling the events.
Ingalagi narrates that ore of gold was discovered by commissioned government officials in the southern part of India's Mysore State (in present-day Kolar district, Karnataka) in 1951. Raja Krishnappa "Rocky" Bairya is also born on the day of the discovery in the Mysore region, to a poor and widowed woman.Suryavardhan, one of the workers that accompanied the officials kills the officials. Discerning the increasing demand for gold by the Cold War belligerents, Suryavardhan deceitfully sets up a company, Narachi, in that land, bought for a lease of 99 years on the pretext of mining limestone. He has five associates, all of who operate away from KGF: Kamal, the son of a former associate Bharghav; Rajendra Desai, the father of Reena, Andrews, who oversees operations in the Konkan and Malabar Coasts; Guru Pandian, a powerful politician and president of the DYSS party; and brother Adheera. However, each of them has their eyes on the mines. Andrews' underboss Shetty is a gold smuggler in Bombay, the city that also has another smuggler, Dubai-based Inayat Khalil's eyes set on.
Rocky arrives in Bombay as a ten-year-old on a quest for power and wealth as desired by his dying mother and begins to work for Shetty. He becomes Shetty's right-hand man later and oversees the arrival of gold bars from Africa to the Bombay coast with an iron fist, and soon rises in strength and power rivalling that of Shetty's. This attracts Andrews who offers him Bombay in return for assassinating Garuda, the younger son of Suryavardhan, who was seen to inherit KGF after his paralysed father's passing. Rocky accepts the offer and heads to Bangalore where an event is staged for the purpose. Once there, he witnesses the sheer presence,authority and power that Garuda commands and has the attempt averted.
In 1978, at the KGF, a bedridden Suryavardhan announces Garuda as his successor overlooking Adheera, who he wants to serve as the latter's aide. Garuda's ruthless way of functioning aided by his commander Vanaram comes to fore. Rocky soon makes his way into KGF evading a unit of henchmen. Once there, he witnesses the brutality that the slaves are subjected to. Although apathetic at first, he is moved by a couple of incidents involving a cold-blooded killing of a mother and son at the hands of an overseer and the slaves' children hoping that he rises to liberate them. Beginning his attempt at it and to indicate to Desai and his men through informants, Kulkarni and Garuda's virtuous brother Virat, that he was alive, as planned, Rocky engages in a fight with a unit of twenty-one overseers killing each one of them in order to save a blind slave they were to kill. With the act, Rocky emerges as a hero in the slaves' eyes.
An alerted Vanaram now informs Garuda who heads toward the mines from his palatial residence. To avert thousands of slaves being killed due to his fury, Virat smothers father Suryavardhan to death and sidetracks Garuda, who rushes back home. At the mines, Rocky seizes the opportunity, conspires and unsuspectingly heads through a tunnel to the site where Garuda has decided to behead three slaves as offerings to a deity. Upon Garuda's return to the site and sacrifice of two slaves, a concealed Rocky emerges and beheads him. The ecstatic slaves accept him as their leader as they cheer him on. The narrator concludes that Rocky intentionally chose KGF as the site to assassinate Garuda, in order to earn the will of an "army of people", the slaves, before he seized KGF to his control but still there are people who are waiting to acquire the throne and how Rocky will face them as one man army and why he was given a death warrant by Prime Minister Ramika Sen will be shown in Chapter 2.
Cast
Yash as Raja "Rocky Bhai" Krishnappa Bhairya[18]
Anmol Vijay as young Rocky[19]
Srinidhi Shetty as Reena Desai
Archana Jois as Shanthamma, Rocky's mother[20]
Anant Nag as Anand Ingalagi
Ashok Sharma as young Anand Ingalagi
Ramesh Indira as Suryavardhan
Ramachandra Raju as Garuda
Vinay Bidappa as Virat
Laxman as Rajendra Desai
Vasishta N. Simha as Kamal
Achyuth Kumar as Guru Pandian
B. S. Avinash as Andrews
Tharak Ponnappa as Daya, Andrews' aide
Dinesh Mangaluru as Shetty
Harish Rai as Khasim, Shetty's aide and Rocky's confidante
Balakrishna as Inayat Khalil
T. S. Nagabharana as the owner of television news channel 24/News
Malavika Avinash as Deepa Hegde, the chief editor of 24/News
Govinda Gowda as a peon at 24/News
Mohan Juneja as Nagaraju, an informer to Ingalagi
Ayyappa P. Sharma as Vanaram, commander for KGF
John Kokken as John, an overseer at KGF
Puneeth Rudranag as Rugga, an overseer at mines
Neenasam Ashwath as Kulkarni
B. Suresha as Vittal, a slave at KGF
T. N. Srinivas Murthy as Narayan, a slave at KGF
Lakshmipathi as Kencha, a slave at KGF, the storyteller
Roopa Rayappa as Shanthi, a slave at KGF
Sampath Maitreya as Shanti's Husband
Yashwant Shetty
Shambavi Venkatesh
Tamannaah as Milky in a special appearance for an item number "Jokae"
Hindi dubbed version
Mouni Roy as Lucy in special appearance for an item number "Gali Gali"[21]
Production
The art director Shivakumar recreated the Kolar Gold Fields film set of the 80s and VFX was used as an extension.[22]
As of 25 June 2017, the project was 50 per cent complete and production had restarted after sets were rebuilt following their destruction by heavy rains.[23]
KGF was released in five languages. It is a complete period drama and is set in the 70s and early 80s. Yash grew his beard and long hair for his role as Rocky, a slick and a suave person of the 70s era. Apart from Yash and Srinidhi, some of the Kannada actors include Ananthnag, Malavika Avinash, Achyuth Kumar, Vasishta N. Simha[24] and B Suresha. Ramya Krishna and Nassar were falsely reported to be a part of the film.[25]
The teaser of KGF was released on Yash's birthday, 8 January 2018. The trailer was released on 9 November 2018.[26][27][28]
Rocky's character was inspired by Amitabh Bachchan's Sholay.[29] It had also inspiration from action movies and western movies[30] like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and For a Few Dollars More.[31]
Soundtrack
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