Lakshmi (2013 film)

Lakshmi
Official poster
Directed by	Raghava Loki
Written by	Raghava Loki M. S. Ramesh
Produced by	Bhaskar
Starring	Shivarajkumar Priyamani Saloni Aswani Komal Kumar
Cinematography	K. S. Chandrashekar
Edited by	K. M. Prakash
Music by	Gurukiran
Production company	Bharani Minerals
Distributed by	Vajreshwari Combines
Release date	18 January 2013 (2013-01-18)
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Lakshmi is an Indian Kannada action film directed by Raghava Loki starring Shivarajkumar, Priyamani, Saloni Aswani and Komal Kumar. The film marks Shivarajkumar's 101st venture, and is produced by Bhaskar of Bharani Minerals. Gurukiran is scoring the music and K. S. Chandrashekar is the cinematographer. Stunts are by Thriller Manju.

Plot

The film starts with Lakshmi (Shivarajkumar) giving entry in a Bharathanatyam dance concert, pausing the dance in a middle and he follows the Bharathanatyam Girl who is dancing. After a few action scenes, it is revealed that the Lakshmi is actually a CBI officer and the Bharathanatyaam dancer is a Guy and is a terrorist, who has killed many lives by planting bombs in Coimbatore. Lakshmi asks the terrorist about the one who provides the information on planting bombs and the terrorist says his name is Specialist. Lakshmi also shows the picture of Lakshmi's wife Priya (Priyamani) and asks the terrorist if he knew any information about her, then the terrorist says No. Then Lakshmi kills him. Also, there are some rumors saying that Lakshmi's wife has eloped with some terrorist leader.

Lakshmi also finds the whereabouts of the specialist and checks the specialist's computer for the pictures of his wife and he kills him right away. In the story, we see that Lakshmi loves his wife very much and he never wanted to miss her, indeed they are a happy family. In the story, Lakshmi also shows his wife the secret locker of the Guns, which he has fixed in their bedroom.

Now, coming to the main story, Lakshmi now wants to find his wife and kill her brutally. Lakshmi finds information about her Wife that she is in HongKong now and books a flight ticket there. In the story, we also see that a police officer is trying to investigate the kidnap of the Bharathanatyaam Girl. He finds that Lakshmi is behind it and investigates, he also follows Lakshmi to HongKong. After reaching HongKong Lakshmi meets Deal Raj, who works for his wife. In HongKong, the villain and the mastermind terrorist (Ashish Vidyarthi) hires a contract Killer to kill Lakshmi. The Killer unexpectedly meets the police officer and introduces himself as HongKong Police working as a SPY.

Here Lakshmi reaches his Wife's home and Deal Raj introduces a cute Girl saying she is the daughter of Mrs.Priya, Lakshmi now is very happy seeing his daughter and gets connected to her. Lakshmi investigates his Wife and he gets to know that his wife is now working in a Casino as a Personal assistant to (Ashish Vidyarthi) and he goes there to investigate, there the Casino Guards suspects Lakshmi and a Gunfight ensues between Lakshmi and the Casino Guards. However, Lakshmi runs away from there.

Now the terrorist and the Police Officer get the address of Lakshmi and there a fight ensues between Lakshmi and the Terrorist. Also, we see that the terrorists also blast the house using a rocket launcher using a Helicopter, in the house, Lakshmi finds the same secret Key which he has used in his home for hiding the Guns and he triggers it, it opens a safe room. There in the process, the Police Officer finds out that Lakshmi is actually a CBI officer and he is in HongKong to investigate whereabouts of his wife and the Terrorist Leader. Lakshmi kills the terrorist by receiving information of the terrorist leader.

Here the Terrorist leader finds out that Priya is Wife of Lakshmi and traps her in a Building full of Terrorists and also using her as a bait to kill Lakshmi. Lakshmi reaches there and after several action sequences and Gunfights, Lakshmi reaches Priya and tries to kill her. Then Lakshmi's Boss interrupts and reveals that Priya is also a CBI officer and she is working here as a SPY. The Boss informs that Priya loves Lakshmi very much and she also loved her job. Then Lakshmi and Priya reconcile.

After that Lakshmi goes to kill Terrorist leader, in the fight the Terrorist leader activates the timer of several Bomb blasts in India. Lakshmi then shows the family of the Terrorist leader and asks him to deactivate the bombs, else Lakshmi will kill the terrorist's family. The Terrorist leader stops the timer. After that Lakshmi takes all the information of supporters of terrorists all around India from the Terrorist leader's Computer and kills the Terrorist leader.

The movie ends with Police arresting all the Terrorist supporters.

Cast

• Shivarajkumar as Lakshmi Narayan, a CID Officer
• Priyamani as Priya Lakshmi Narayan
• Saloni Aswani
• Ashish Vidyarthi
• Rangayana Raghu
• Komal Kumar
• Avinash
• Vincent Asokan
• Rukmini
• Dilip Raj
• Ravi Kaale
• Yathiraj
• Mohan Juneja
• Mico Shivu
• Bus Kumar
• Gym Ravi
• Ragini Dwivedi (Item Number "")
• Sakshi Pradhan (Item Number "Lakshmi no one can touch me"

Production

The official announcement for the movie was made on 30 December 2011. Held at Freedom Park in Bangalore, the event was attended by many film personalities. Director Duniya Soori shot the first clap, while Parvathamma Rajkumar, Raghavendra Rajkumar, Shruti among others were present for the event. The first schedule of the film was held, Theschedule was shot entirely Bore at Hong Kong and Macau.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the album was released on 11 November 2012.

Lakshmi
Soundtrack album by Gurukiran
Released	11 November 2012
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Language	Kannada
Label	Saregama Audio

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Come Come"	Udit Narayan, Shamita Malnad
2.	"Naanu Footpathnalli"	Shivarajkumar, Chaitra H. G.
3.	"Neenene Neenene"	Udit Narayan, Anuradha Bhat
4.	"Pussy Cat"	Chaitra H. G.
5.	"Lakshmi No one can Touch"	Sukhwinder Singh

Critical reception

Indiaglitz wrote "Lakshmi' is another film for setting nation free from terrorism. The questioning the film does is appropriate to the detractors of this country. The strong base for this film is excellent screenplay loaded with action and surprises that keeps the audience tight on their seats". CNN-IBN mentioned that it is "tailor-made for Shivakumar fans, but still it has many engaging elements to keep family audience happy". Rediff wrote that "The film has nothing much to offer except some stunning images of Hong Kong. Go for it if you want to see the locales of Hong Kong and its skyline".

External links

• Lakshmi at IMDb