Laughing Buddha

Police constable Govardhan has an happy life, both personal and professional. He is kind hearted and it shows in his work as well. After a get together event arranged at their police station, Govardhan's life falls apart when a strict senior officer visits their station and berates Govardhan for being overweight. Humiliated, Govardhan tries to reduce his weight through various means before settling with Naturopathy. In the meantime, local minister approaches the police for losing 50lacs to a fraud and wants it to be handled unofficially. When the suspect gets hurt on his head causing retrograde amnesia, his superior calls Govardhan back to help him out of this mess. How does Govardhan protect suspect and also solve the case, forms rest of the story.

It's a novel script driven by the kind hearted Govardhan's character. It does start off on a decent note, introducing all the main characters and establishing Govardhan's character primarily. All the fun is lighthearted till the senior officer humiliating Govardhan. Post this, the obvious humor set up where Govardhan tries hard to lose his weight follows. Once the plot involving the injured suspect in the minister's case gets going, the film loses it's team. The case in itself isn't that intriguing and the way it gets solved was all too convenient. The film dragged on post interval due to this and only a couple of comedy scenes did work solely due to Pramod's comic timing.

It starts with life of a constable who enjoys simple things in life, cherishes food and keeps everyone around him happy.

Turn of events puts focus on his lack of fitness. When we think that the movie is about how he gets into good shape physically, there is a twist to the story and slowly the suspense element builds up. It ends with fitting climax.

Technically movie is good. Director has kept the screenplay simple, trying to mix up comedy with suspense.

Acting wise, everyone has given their best.

Diganth has an important role and he just lives in it. He deserves much more in our industry.

Pramod Shetty also given his best.

This film is a refreshing addition to Kannada cinema, proving that even low-budget movies can have a strong impact-something often seen in Malayalam films. The narration is well-executed, keeping the audience engaged for the most part. While a few scenes might feel slightly distracting, the story quickly regains its grip, pulling the viewer back into its world.

The performances are commendable, and the technical aspects, including cinematography and background score, are well-crafted. However, the film stumbles in its climax. While some might find it convincing, I personally felt it was a letdown. I expected a more fitting resolution, but the final moments felt both illogical and impractical.

With a tighter screenplay and a more satisfying conclusion, this film could have garnered even greater appreciation and reach. Despite its flaws, it's still a decent watch and a commendable effort in Kannada cinema.

Another Rishab sheety production movie which was much much essential for kannada industry. It's a simple movie which shall make you smile throughout the movie ryt from the way it starts to the way it ends. These kind of movies are rare these days. A movie anyone can watch, the simple humour is the key takeaway of the movie. And pramodh Shetty acting took it up a notch, he nailed his performance in this one, the background score the songs everything was good and enjoyable, it's a one time watch with family & kids.

The only con about the movie was that it was not quite special and the wow factor was missing but nevertheless it's a nice movie.

I expected some good laughter, but there was almost none. They tried so hard to make it seem comical, but its not easy to write comedy for sure. The story too was just nothing special or even anything commendable. And ending was like not sure why they went that route, probably wasn't sure what to do with how that ended. Everyone's acting is just average, nothing really stands out. There is even less family dynamics, seems more like friends camp too, no real connection, forced love story angle, there was no daughter mother connection too, felt like they just got up some child to play the daughter, and a lady as mother, and some guy to play husband, father in law who runs an orchestra camp, and another camp of police who seems just chilling, like no real work sort off. There was no heart in the story or for the comedy or for relationship or even I don't know what big thing to bring Diganth too in this. He just came across as side character without any substance. Decent one time watch.