Circus (2009 film)

Circus is a 2009 Kannada-language comedy thriller film directed and produced by Dayal Padmanabhan. It stars Ganesh and Archana Gupta in the lead roles.

Circus was released on 15 January 2009 and became an average venture at the box office.

Plot
Dhanush is a fun-loving youngster who along with his friends live in the railway colony and their meeting point is the railway station. They decide to play a prank by sending a letter stating on a particular date a train travelling from Mysore to Bangalore will be exploded.

However, Dhanush and his gang realize that one of the friend's address is posted on the letter, where they get into the Railway Mail Service boggie of the train to retrieve the letter, but they discover that a real plot has been hatched by the terrorists to blow up the Gandhadagudi Express on the same day.

Dhanush and his gang decides to locate them and foil the plan. During their journey, Dhanush and his gang take a break at one of the houses where Priya and Dhanush fall for each other. After an intense search, Dhanush and his gang identify the terrorists where they manage to kill them with the help of undercover ATS officers.

Soundtrack
The official soundtrack contains six songs composed by Emil Mohammed with lyrics penned by Kaviraj, Yogaraj Bhat and Manjunath Rao. The audio of the film released on 15 December 2008. The opening lines of the song Jeeva Hoovagide was used from the popular song of same name (I Love You) from the 1981 movie Nee Nanna Gellalare.

Critical response
Circus received mixed to positive reviews from critics.

R G Vijayasarathy of Rediff.com gave 3/5 stars and wrote "Circus may not be a top class thriller but still has enough entertaining arsenal to please film fans. Watch it if you love thrillers." The Times of India gave 3/5 stars and wrote "There is freshness in the script and narration. Though slow in the first half, it gets lively in the second half." Bangalore Mirror wrote "Despite the drawbacks, Circus is worth a watch".

Box office
The film was declared as an average grosser by completing 50 days at the box office.

Home media
The satellite rights of the film were sold to Star Suvarna and was released on DVD with 5.1 channel surround sound with English subtitles and VCD.