Pogaru


Pogaru is an upcoming Indian Kannada-language action thriller film written and directed by Nanda Kishore and produced by B. K. Gangadhar under the banner of Sri Jagadguru Movies. The film starring Dhruva Sarja, Rashmika Mandanna, Dhananjay, Raghavendra Rajkumar, P. Ravi Shankar, Kai Greene, Morgan Aste and Dharma in the lead roles. Music composed by Chandan Shetty while cinematography and editing are handled by Vijay Milton and Mahesh S.

Cast

Soundtrack

This film's songs composed and background score are composed by Chandan Shetty. This marks the independent artist Chandan Shetty to compose all film songs for first time. Audio rights purchased by Anand Audio.

Release and marketing

The film was scheduled to be released on 24 March 2020, but has been postponed amid the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in India.

Controversy

The video of the song titled 'karabuu' in which the protagonist and scores of his other side kick goons appear to be harassing the leading lady, has irked a lot of people. The character played by actor Dhruva Sarja was touching a woman inappropriately and visibly unconsented throughout the video. There were violent scenes like setting bikes ablaze to get her attention, and threatening her with a knife on streets while his side kicks keep cheering him to do more of this to the terrified woman, who ironically is his love interest. The video appears to be glorifying the harassment and eve-teasing, and was panned for the same by women right activists in media. The actress, who has earlier done a movie with 'women harassment' as a major plot point, was also called out for signing such a movie, was alleged that she did so just for the money. A police compliant was registered against the director about the brutal eve teasing. "In the song, hero Dhruva Sarja is trying to win Rashmika Mandanna’s heart by showing her knives, getting his henchmen to destroy vehicles as she walks, doing pull-ups with her holding onto him" stated the article