Aatagara

Aatagara (translation: Player) is a 2015 Indian Kannada romantic thriller film directed by K. M. Chaitanya and produced by Dwarakish Chitra in its 49th production.[1] The film has an ensemble cast with 10 main protagonists played by Chiranjeevi Sarja, Meghana Raj, Parul Yadav, Anu Prabhakar, Achyuth Kumar, Prakash Belawadi, Balaji Manohar, Pavana Gowda, Sadhu Kokila, Aarohitha Gowda along with Ananth Nag, P. Ravi Shankar and RJ Nethra in key supporting roles.[2] The music is composed by Anoop Seelin. The film released on 28 August 2015.[3] The trio of producer Yogish Dwarakish - director Chaitanya - hero Chiranjeevi went on to work again in Aake and Amma I Love You. The movie is based on Agatha Christie's 1939 mystery novel And Then There Were None.[4][5]

Aatagara
Film poster
Directed byK. M. Chaitanya
Produced byDwarakish
Yogish Dwarakish
Screenplay byK. M. Chaitanya, Kannan Parameshwaran
Story byKannan Parameshwaran
StarringChiranjeevi Sarja
Meghana Raj
Parul Yadav
Anant Nag
Anu Prabhakar
Achyuth Kumar
Dwarakish
Prakash Belawadi
Music byAnoop Seelin
CinematographySatya Hegde
Edited byHaridoss KGF
Production
company
Dwarakish Chitra
Release date
  • 28 August 2015 (2015-08-28)
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

Plot

Ten people are enticed into a reality show shot on an island. Drug peddler Jai (Chiranjeevi Sarja) meets Sakshi (Meghana Raj) whose photo he has in his purse and both soon fall in love.

However, people get killed. The remaining five learn from a judge (Anant Nag) that they all have committed crimes.

Mallika (Parul Yadav) was driving under the influence of alcohol and killed two grandparents. She paid her innocent driver to take the blame.

Sandhya (Anu Prabhakar) is the principal of a school where the master had raped a little girl. But to save her school's reputation, she used a girl to falsely implicate the father who then committed suicide.

KP (Balaji Manohar) abandoned his girlfriend who became pregnant with his baby, ending up with her losing her sanity.

Sakshi (Meghana Raj) had left a rich man's son in a swimming pool knowing that the boy couldn't swim.

Mallika, Sandhya and KP get killed. Sakshi and Jai escape from the house. But Jai gets shot. Sakshi hallucinates seeing the child saying 'Aunty come here I am going to swim' and eventually jumps into the sea. Jai however gets saved by the police and finally starts a new life making cotton candies.

Cast

Controversy

The movie was accused as a remake of 2011 Tamil movie Aduthathu directed by Thakkali Srinivasan. However, director K. M. Chaitanya cleared the air saying that both the movies were based on Agatha Christie's mystery novel And Then There Were None which was about ten characters stranded on an uninhabited island. He also claimed that while some characters - Meghana Raj (a model who deliberately lets a child drown), Sadhu Kokila (a cook who has killed his owner) and Prakash Belwadi (a doctor who is always suspicious of others and acts strangely)- were directly based on the characters from the novel, others - Anu Prabhakar (principal of a multicoloured school where a child sex abuse case has been reported), Achyuth Kumar (aggressive TV news anchor who does not allow others to air their views) and Parul Yadav (a reputed cinestar who gets away from a drink & drive hit & run accident case by framing the driver) - were based on real life incidents.[6] However, questions were raised to similarity between the sudden introduction of the master-mind in the basement of the secret room in both Kannada and Tamil versions in spite of the character being anonymous and not making an appearance in the novel. Similarities were also found in the reality-show backdrop, ten faces of Raavana, the characterisation of the investigating officer and the one traitor among the reality-show participants (none of which were found in the novel). It was also argued that instead of ten faces of Raavana, the team could have tweaked it to Dashavathar with metaphoric reference but did not do so as it was straight away taken from the Tamil movie. At this point of time, the team of Aatagara arranged a special screening of the movie for Thakkali Srinivasan in Bangalore. Srinivasan clarified that it is not a remake of his film. He also praised Aatagara of being an extremely well made film. He also revealed that he had made a serial inspired from Agatha Christe's novel And Then There Were None in 1995. Later he made the film Aduthathu inspired by the same. For both these, Kannan Parameshwaran worked on the story. Kannan also wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay for Aatagara inspired by the same novel. Srinivasan also said that anything similar is to the novel and not his film. He also said anyone saying the movie a remake were ignorant and calling this movie a remake would be an absolute joke.[7][8]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack is composed by Anoop Seelin.[9] Initially Seelin composed a total of 4 songs and the film makers reportedly dropped out a song so as to not affect the film's pace. The team reportedly came up with a riddle song which celebrated the legendary artists of Kannada cinema.[10]

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Aatagara"Rohit PadakiShashank Sheshagiri 
2."Tharamayya"Rohit PadakiSanthosh Venky, Supriya Lohith 
3."Halooralli Uliyoryaaru"Rohit PadakiArchana Udupa, Anoop Seelin 

References
  1. "Dwarakish Chitra Next". Indiaglitz. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  2. "Ten Protagonists In Aatagara". The New Indian Express. 20 August 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  3. "Aatagara Movie Review - Movie Preview". Indiaglitz. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  4. https://m.cinemaexpress.com/stories/trends/2017/nov/22/aboard-the-mystery-train-3207.amp
  5. https://www.comingsoon.it/cinema/news/agatha-christie-e-il-cinema-un-amore-mai-sbocciato-del-tutto/n53276/
  6. http://www.bangaloremirror.com/entertainment/south-masala/Aatagara-is-not-a-remake/articleshow/48734672.cms
  7. http://www.chitraloka.com/exclusive/12388-tamil-director-ends-aatagara-controversy.html
  8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dE2_8qw-_I
  9. "Aatagara 2015 Kannada movie songs". Southsongs4u. Archived from the original on 12 August 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  10. "A riddle song from the thriller Aatagara". Bangalore Mirror. 17 July 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
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