Shanti Kranti

Shanti Kranti is a 1991 Indian action film produced and directed by V. Ravichandran under his Eshwari Productions banner. The film starred Ravichandran and Juhi Chawla in lead roles, while Ramesh Aravind, Khushbu and Anant Nag play supporting roles. The film was simultaneously shot in Kannada, Telugu, Hindi and Tamil. Ravichandran was the lead in Kannada, while he portrayed Ramesh Aravind's role in Tamil and Telugu. Nagarjuna played the lead role in Telugu, while Rajinikanth did so in Hindi and Tamil, the latter titled Nattukku Oru Nallavan. The film became a failure in all four languages. It was the most expensive Indian film made until then.

Plot
Inspector Subhash learns that a notorious gangster named Daddy is involved in organ trafficking of children, and sets out to bring him to justice. When Subhash get emotional for the death of the Om Ashram children's he learns that there is something fishy with the Om Ashram run by Daddy. Subhash comes to investigate the ashram with some of his trained kids and calls out his love interest Jyoti and informs her about the bus accident. She acknowledges and informs him that she will help him find out the truth about the ashram. Further the film revolves about how Jyoti dies and Subhash investigates and bring justice to the kids.

Cast

 * Kannada
 * Master Prakash
 * Baby Anu Prabhakar
 * Rekha Das


 * Telugu


 * Tamil
 * Delhi Ganesh as Doctor
 * Jai Ganesh as Advocate
 * Idichapuli Selvaraj as Astrologer


 * Hindi
 * Om Shivpuri as Politician

Production
V. Ravichandran announced that Shanti Kranti will be an expensive project in his career. He decided to direct in four languages — Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. The Tamil version was titled Naattukku Oru Nallavan. Rajinikanth played the lead in Hindi and Tamil, while Nagarjuna was in Telugu and Ravichandran himself in Kannada. Rajinikanth initially refused to do the project as he was required to give 100 days call sheet, but accepted after hearing the story. The film was launched at 14 November 1988 on the hundredth birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru at Kanteerava Studios alongside other language versions of the film. Journalists from different languages were invited to the event and were shown the films Premaloka and Ranadheera as Veeraswamy wanted them to see the films before they ask questions to Ravichandran. Bullet Prakash, who went on to become a famous comedian in Kannada cinema, made his acting debut as child artist with the Kannada version of this film. Despite beginning production in 1988, it took at least two years to complete. To bring his vision to life, Ravichandran allegedly borrowed a large 50-acre empty land to film the climax. He also erected large sets and recreated M G Road, Bangalore so that he could blast out a few portions while separate cars, catering services and crew members were assigned for each version.

Soundtrack
Hamsalekha composed the music for the film and the soundtracks.

Reception
Deccan Herald wrote "It was a visual spectacle no doubt, but the narrative lost sight of its subject---the organ transplant mafia". The film became a failure in all four languages. It's failure put Ravichandran in financial distress "forcing him to rely on remakes of hit Tamil and Telugu films" which resurrected his career.