Ugramm

Ugramm is a 2014 Indian Kannada-language action thriller film directed by Prashanth Neel and produced under the banner Inkfinite Pictures with his brother Pradeep Neel as the executive producer. It stars Sriimurali and Hariprriya as the lead pair, supported by Thilak Shekar, Atul Kulkarni, Avinash, Jai Jagadish and others. Bhuvan Gowda was the main cinematographer, while Ravi Varman was a guest cinematographer, marking his debut in Kannada cinema. Ugramm completed a run of 150 days in some theatres across Karnataka. A sequel to the film titled Ugramm Veeram to be made in 2015, was announced by Srimurali in July 2014, but there were no official updates till date. It was remade in Odia as Agastya starring Anubhav Mohanty. The Marathi remake titled Raanti starring Sharad Kelkar and Shanvi Srivastava was announced in August 2022. It was dubbed in Hindi as Main Hoon Fighter Badshah. Plot 1994: Shivarudra Lingaiah was a ruthless gangster in Bangalore crime syndicate, who agreed to take up a big smuggling deal, for which he approached Prabhakar, an owner of a shipping company, to smuggle the goods through his ships. However, Prabhakar rejected the offer. Enraged by the rejection, Shivarudra Lingaiah killed Prabhakar's wife and also threatened to kill his infant daughter, Nithya. As a result, Prabhakar accepted Shivarudra Lingaiah's offer. While working with Shivarudra Lingaiah, Prabhakar stopped a ship coming from Dubai, which contained the smuggled goods belonging to Shivarudra Lingaiah. He loaded 90% of the smuggled goods into another ship and sold it to a third party. Afterwards, he escaped to Australia, along with Nithya, to start a new life. Shivarudra Lingaiah was arrested from a tip-off, by Prabhakar. However, he continued his activities from the prison through his son, Dheeraj.