Rana Vikrama

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Rana Vikrama is a 2015 Indian Kannada-language action thriller film written and directed by Pavan Wadeyar. It stars Puneeth Rajkumar, Anjali, Adah Sharma, Dinesh Mangalore, Vikram Singh, Girish Karnad, Avinash, Sudha Belawadi and Mukhyamantri Chandru. The soundtrack of the film was released on 21 March 2015.

Rana Vikrama was released on 10 April 2015, where it received positive reviews from critics and became a commercial success at the box office.

PLOT

In 2015, a reporter is killed in a place called Vikramatheertha, which is not on the Karnataka map. She had earlier sent a letter to Home minister K.V. Anand Rao. When she later disappears, Rao asks the police commissioner to send a newer recruit officer to investigate. Vikram, who aspires to become a cop is rejected by the department as he refuses to give a bribe. Along with his girlfriend Paaru, he meets Anand Rao, who assigns him for the mission. Vikram goes to Vikramatheertha, in Maharashtra, and finds out that the people are actually enslaved by Patil to illegally export soil to an unknown buyer. After being insulted, he thrashes up Patil and his henchmen and sends him into a coma.

Meanwhile, Patil’s brother Kulkarni, who is Maharashtra’s ruling party MLA, hears of Patil’s coma and sends goons against Vikram, but to no avail. Vikram frees and organizes the people to order the area, and goes to change the border between the states. On the way, he thrashes some of Kulkarni’s goons right in front of Kulkarni and warns him not to interfere. Vikram reports to Anand Rao with his findings, including an old Halegannada inscriptions, the people who speak Kannada and also about Kulkarni. In the meantime, Vikram and the people excavate Vikramateertha and find many artifacts that they restore to their former glory, and the pictures of the artifacts are sent to Rao, who later tells Vikram that the Central government has given approval for the site to be developed. Vikram requests that the annexement of the site should be developed on Kannada Rajyotsava to show Karnataka of their heritage.

Meanwhile, Johnson, who is the grandson of Louise Batten calls Kulkarni, who is helping Johnson smuggle the soil of Vikramatheertha, to ensure everything is fine. He signs a contract for £10 billion dollars and will give Kulkarni ₹100 crore (US$13 million) in exchange for triple the soil. Rao reveals about Vikramatheertha’s exploits and Vikramateertha’s belonging to Karnataka to the media, where Johnson and Kulkarni learns of the news, Kulkarni then relays everything to Johnson and begs him to come to India. On the day of Kannada Rajyotsava, While Anand Rao is talking about Vikramateertha belonging to Karnataka, Vikram’s grandmother Gowri wakes up from her long inactivity and Vikram visits her ailing grandmother, who reveals her and his grandfather’s past.

1947: Vikramateertha was a thriving village with a famous Lord Shiva temple. Gowri, the daughter of the village headman Kusti Ranganna, falls in love with her father’s student Rana Vikrama, where they get married. Meanwhile, the area is under the control of Viceroy Louis Batten, who is only interested in gaining profits. One of his scientist found 100% uranium in Vikramatheertha’s soil. Afterwards, one of the British collaborators tells the villagers they must vacate the village, but they refuse at which Batten kills Kusti Ranganna, only for Vikram to attack him. Humiliated, Batten sends a large army forces to forcibly evict or kill the villagers. The villagers fight back with stones and bare hands, but the guns and cannons of the enemy force them back. Vikrama tells Gowri and remaining villagers to flee and returns to fight the British. However, he is betrayed by his own partner Ashoka and is handed over to Batten. Batten tortures him mortally, but he slashes the throat of the evil britisher before his death.

Present: Johnson gruesomly bombs the site, causing many deaths and the government is humiliated. Anand Rao assigns Vikram to investigate behind the bombing. Vikram convinces Rao of the need to kill Johnson for the safety of the country and state, to prevent the uranium from getting into the hands of terrorists. Vikram goes to find and kill Johnson with his squad officers, but Johnson escapes and has Vikram’s own team double cross him. After dispatching the squad, Vikram arrives at the mines where Johnson is supervising the loading of the uranium and chases him along a train. After a fight, Vikram is stabbed, but kills Johnson, where he is promoted to ACP by Anand Rao, much to the happiness of his family and Paaru.