Sagar (film)

Sagar (ಸಾಗರ್) is a 2012 Kannada-language romantic action drama film directed by M. D. Sridhar and written by Eakisit Thairaat. A remake of Chukkallo Chandrudu, the film stars Prajwal Devaraj, Radhika Pandit, Sanjjanaa and Haripriya in the lead roles, while Dev Gill, Sharath Lohithaswa, Avinash Yelandur, Vinaya Prasad and Adi Lokesh appear in supporting roles. Gurukiran composed the music for the film, while the cinematography was handled by Krishna Kumar. The film was later dubbed into Hindi as.

Plot
Sagar is the son of an aristocratic industrialist Rajasekhara Murthy, who arrives home after completing his studies in Australia. Rajasekhara fixes his marriage with Priyanka. Sagar and Priyanka decides to prevent the marriage, where Sagar tells his problem to Jennifer who sends her friend Kajal's photo to wrongly portray her as his lover only to create confusion within the family.

Kajal arrives in the house and soon bonds with the family members. However, Kajal leaves the house and is captured by the goons sent by Rajasekhara's rival Sampath, but Sagar saves Kajal and brings her home, where he reveals the truth. Kajal reveals that she is the daughter of Rajasekhara's friend Dr. Janaradhan. Kajal was actually stalked by an international drug baron named Sonu Bhai, who actually killed her parents after they refused to get Kajal married to him.

Kajal soon escaped to Bangalore and decided to act as Sagar's girlfriend, but later tried to leave as Sonu had arrived in Bangalore and was tracking her again with Sampath's help. Rajasekhara, Sagar and his family decides to protect Kajal. During a factory inauguration, Kajal is kidnapped again by Sampath and his son who soon gets killed by Sonu. Sagar tracks down Sonu's location and brutally thrashes him. In the aftermath, Sagar and Kajal finally reunite.

Soundtrack
Gurukiran has composed the songs to the lyrics of Kaviraj. The Audio has been distributed by Anand Audio.

Reception
The Times of India gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote "The director makes the narration interesting by bringing in a family sentimental track and ending the story with an excellent fighting sequence for the front benchers. It could have been trimmed by at least 20 minutes to make it compact." B S Srivani from Deccan Herald concluded it as a "A frothy entertainer at its best". India Today wrote "While the fights and three songs are good, the inclusion of some unnecessary sequences in the second half drags the film. Even the story does not offer any freshness, but the production values makes the film much attractive. The comedy portions in the film are weak, but the song picturisations are a strong attraction of the film".