Pogaru

Pogaru Movie Details:

Country	India
Language	Kannada
Genre	Action, Romance, Thriller
Release date	19 February 2021
Running time	2hr 40min
Certificate	U/A
Starring	Dhruva Sarja Rashmika Mandanna
Directed by	Nanda Kishore
Written by	Arunbalaji
Produced by	B. K. Gangadhar
Cinematography by	Vijay Milton
Edited by	Mahesh S
Music by	V. Harikrishna
Production Company	Sri Jagadguru Movies

Pogaru Movie Cast & Characters:

• Dhruva Sarja as Shiva
• Rashmika Mandanna as Geetha
• Sampath Raj as JB
• Dhananjaya as Daali
• Chikkanna as Shiva’s friend
• Raghavendra Rajkumar as Shiva’s Teacher/Guru
• Pavitra Lokesh as Lakshmi, Shiva’s mother
• P. Ravi Shankar as Ramakrishna, Shiva’s step-father
• Raj Deepak Shetty
• Kai Greene
• Kuri Prathap
• Bullet Prakash
• Tara Anuradha
• Morgan Aste
• Dharma as Inspector Aditya
• Mayuri Kyatari as Shiva’s step-sister
• Girija Lokesh as Shiva’s grandmother
• Kari Subbu
• John Lucas as JB’s bodyguard
• Jo Lindner
• Shankar Ashwath as Geetha’s father

Storyline:

A young Shiva loses his father, who was killed by JB as his father became a witness to JB’s crimes. Shiva is unaware of his father’s death and learns that his mother Lakshmi’s second marriage with Executive Officer Ramakrishna from his dying grandmother, who makes Shiva promise that he will take care of Lakshmi. Shiva agrees and asks Lakshmi to come with him without Ramakrishna and his daughter (Shiva’s sister), but disagrees which leads Shiva to become a rogue. Years later, Shiva becomes a notorious rogue, who hates Ramakrishna and his daughter for snatching Lakshmi away from him. Shiva meets a teacher named Geetha, who soon falls for her good nature.

JB decides to grab the colony but is opposed by Ramakrishna. JB’s son Daali takes Shiva’s help. Shiva agrees and gets Ramakrishna arrested and also takes his sister to Daali’s hideout, but thrashes Daali and his henchmen as he realizes his sister’s affection, but Shiva’s sister is injured in the battle and is taken to the hospital. Lakshmi berates Shiva and tells him to never show her face again. Shiva talks about his difficulties to Lord Hanuman where Geetha also realizes her mistake and reconciles with Shiva. Daali goes into coma which makes JB enraged and kidnaps the colony’s kids to burn them alive. Shiva saves them and defeats JB’s bodyguards and burns JB alive, Thus Shiva reunites with his family and changes his ways.

Pogaru Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:

Budget	₹25−31 crore
Worldwide Collection	₹45 crore

Pogaru Movie tracklist:

Kannada

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	“Bande Bathale”	Chethan Kumar	Chandan Shetty	Vijay Prakash	3:56
2.	“Karabuu”	Chandan Shetty	Chandan Shetty	Chandan Shetty	3:39
3.	“Pogaru Title Track”	Chandan Shetty	Chandan Shetty	Chandan Shetty, Shashank Sheshagiri, Aniruddha Sastry	3:51
4.	“Jeeva Kottavalu”	Aniruddha Sastry	Gummineni Vijay	Aniruddha Sastry	4:24
5.	“Dialogue Trailer”			Dhruva Sarja, Rashmika Mandanna	3:20
6.	“Pogaru Entry BGM”		Gummineni Vijay		2:06

Tamil (Sema Thimiru)

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	“Vetti Uttale”	Viveka	Chandan Shetty	Vijay Prakash	3:56
2.	“Karabuu”	Viveka	Chandan Shetty	Chandan Shetty	3:39
3.	“Sema Thimiru Title Track”	Viveka	Chandan Shetty	Ranjith Govind, Chandan Shetty	3:51
4.	“Aalamaraveyil”	Viveka	Gummineni Vijay	Aniruddha Sastry	4:24
5.	“Dialogue Trailer”			Dhruva Sarja, Rashmika Mandanna	3:20
6.	“Sema Thimiru Entry BGM”		Gummineni Vijay		2:06

Telugu (Pogaru)

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	“Kundelu Pilla”	Bhaskarabhatla	Chandan Shetty	Vijay Prakash	3:56
2.	“Karabuu”	Bhaskarabhatla	Chandan Shetty	Anurag Kulkarni	3:39
3.	“Pogaru Title Track”	Bhaskarabhatla	Chandan Shetty	Chandan Shetty, Aniruddha Sastry	3:51
4.	“Praanamichinaavu”	Vengi	Gummineni Vijay	Aniruddha Sastry	4:24
5.	“Dialogue Trailer”			Dhruva Sarja, Rashmika Mandanna	3:20
6.	“Pogaru Entry BGM”		Gummineni Vijay		2:06

About Pogaru Movie:

Pogaru was planned as a Kannada and Telugu bilingual film, but the Telugu version was later dropped and a dubbed version was released in both Telugu and Tamil.

Pogaru was scheduled to be released on 24 March 2020 but was postponed amid the COVID-19 lockdown in India. It was released on 19 February 2021, in Kannada, along with dubbed versions in Telugu and Tamil(titled Semma Thimiru).

The film’s Tamil dubbed version is titled Semma Thimiru. It was later dubbed into Hindi under the same title Pogaru by RKD Studios.

The film opened with 100% occupancy and collect ₹25 crore in 2 days.

On success, meet producer announced movie collected ₹45 crore in 6 days. The film was a failure in Tamil and Telugu versions but a commercial success in the Kannada version.