U Turn (Kannada)

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Shraddha Srinath as Rachana
• Roger Narayan as Sub-inspector Nayak
• Radhika Chetan as Maya
• Dileep Raj as Aditya
• Skanda Ashok as Ritesh
• Krishna Hebbale as Inspector Sudhakar
• Pratibha Nandakumar as lady constable Sarojamma
• Pramod Shetty as Sundar
• Aarna Kulkarni as Aarna
• Chethan D’Souza as Raju
• Kennedi Gopalan as the Homeless flyover man
• Ram Manjjonaath as Police Officer Muddanna
• Rajath Mayee as auto rickshaw driver
• Surya Vasishta as Doctor

Storyline:

A young female reporter works on a story about motorists who break the rules at a two-road junction. However, when the offenders mysteriously die one by one, she embarks on a search for the truth.

About Movie:

U Turn is a Kannada supernatural thriller film written, produced, and directed by Pawan Kumar. It stars Shraddha Srinath in the lead role. Roger Narayan, Dileep Raj, and Radhika Chetan feature in supporting roles.

According to the director, the script of the movie took place on the road. He says, “U-Turn happened in July when I used to drop my daughter Lucy to school and traffic used to be high. I used to park in front of her school for more than an hour and used the time to write the script.”

The film was theatrically released on 20 May 2016. It received critical acclaim and was remade a lot of times in different languages.

Remakes

U Turn was remade in Malayalam in 2017 as Careful. It was later remade into a Telugu-Tamil bilingual in 2018 with the same title by Pawan Kumar himself – thereby making it the fourth Kannada film to be remade in three other South Indian languages after School Master, Sampathige Savaal and Devara Kannu.

The film was also officially remade in Sri Lanka in Sinhala in 2019 with the same title – thereby becoming the second Kannada movie to be remade in Sinhala after Anuraga Aralithu. The Filipino remake with the same title was released on 30 October 2020. The film was remade in Bengali as Flyover and released on 2 April 2021.

The Hindi remake with the same title was released on 28 April 2023 by Ekta Kapoor. The director had revealed that the rights for the Malay language remake were sold out. He also revealed that there are plans to remake the film in Chinese, Thai, Marathi, and Gujarati.

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