Bindaas (2008 film)

Bindaas is a Kannada language action comedy film directed by D. Rajendra Babu and produced by M. Chandrashekar under Udayachandra Productions. The film stars Puneeth Rajkumar, Hansika Motwani, Nassar, Suman and Komal. This is Hansika's only Kannada film as of 2023.

Bindaas was released on 15 February 2008 and became a box office success. It was dubbed in Telugu as Pandugadu, in Hindi as Be Happy Bindaas, and in Bhojpuri as Baazi. It was also reported to have been dubbed in Malayalam. Despite being dubbed in Bhojpuri, it was remade as Hero, making it the first Kannada film to be remade in that language.

Plot
Shiva, a former pickpocketeer in Bangalore, gets caught selling black tickets and creating a disturbance at a film theater. Shiva meets ACP Vikram Rathod, who tells him about Saleem Bhai, a notorious crime boss. Vikram tells Shiva to infiltrate Saleem's gang as a police informer. Shiva joins D, Saleem's trusted henchman, and eliminates Saleem's gang under Vikram's orders.

Shiva's girlfriend Preethi mistakes Shiva as a gangster in a shootout and breaksup with him. After capturing and bringing Saleem, Shiva is held at gunpoint by Vikram, who reveals that Preeti is his daughter. Vikram reveals that he learnt about Shiva and Preethi's relationship earlier and was enraged to learn about this. Due to political pressure to nab Saleem, Vikram formulated a plan and made Shiva as the informer in order to make Preeti to believe that Shiva was a gangster.

After revealing this, Vikram is about to shoot Shiva, but Shiva escapes with Saleem and kidnaps Preeti, who reveals about her father's treachery. D arrives at Shiva's hideout and frees Saleem. A shootout ensues in which Shiva kills D and Saleem. Vikram Rathod tries to shoot Shiva, but is stopped by Preeti, who makes her father realize his mistakes. In the aftermath, Preethi happily reunites with Shiva.

Cast

 * Puneeth Rajkumar as Shiva
 * Hansika Motwani as Preethi
 * Nassar as ACP Vikram Rathod, Preethi's father
 * Suman as Saleem Bhai
 * Rahul Dev as D
 * Komal as Shiva's friend
 * Vanitha Vasu
 * Dattanna as a priest
 * Prithviraj
 * Suman Ranganathan in a cameo in song "Kallu Mama"

Soundtrack
Gurukiran composed the film score and the soundtrack, while the lyrics were penned by Kaviraj and V. Nagendra Prasad. The soundtrack album consists of five tracks. It was released on 2 January 2008 in Bangalore. "Thara Thara Onthara" samples the post-chorus of the song "My Number One".