Kiccha

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Kiccha
Kiccha Kannada Movie.jpg
Directed by P. A. Arun Prasad
Written by Ravi Srivatsa (dialogues)
Screenplay byP. A. Arun Prasad
Story byP. A. Arun Prasad
Produced by Ramu
Starring
CinematographySundarnath Suvarna
Edited byS. Manohar
Music by Hamsalekha
Release date
  • 11 April 2003 (2003-04-11) [1]
Running time
154 min
Country India
LanguageKannada

Kiccha is a 2003 Kannada political drama action film directed by P. A. Arun Prasad featuring Sudeep and Shwetha in the lead roles. It features background score and soundtrack composed by Hamsalekha and lyrics by Hamsalekha. The film was released on 11 April 2003.

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Plot

Krishna Mohan aka Kiccha (Sudeep) is a law graduate who fight against injustice and corruption which is happened around his surroundings. On the occasion of Convocation day, Kiccha abuses the Education Minister Harikrishna (Anandaraj) for not providing education facilities to the children. Kiccha is badly beaten by the police for abusing the minister. Sharada (Sujatha), Kiccha's mother who feels bad about her son for spending time with his friends without any job. Kiccha and his friends attends for a job interview. Kiccha along with other job applicants are waiting for long hours, but interview board send them back and tells that interview is over. Intolerant Kiccha and other reacts harshly towards the interview board and also beats a candidate. Kiccha stops beating the candidate after seeing him bleeding. The candidate was a Kidney transplanted patient who came for the interview from hospital. He comes from a poverty family where no one is able to fulfill their basic amenities. If the candidate gets this job he can earn an income for the livelihood of his family. After seeing the critical condition of the candidate Kiccha refused to attend the interview. One day Kiccha meets a college girl named Suma, who is an orphan. Suma becomes love of his life after their several meetings. Kiccha's friend is arrested by Police for killing his father. If any Government employee dies then the job will get to his family members including his spouse or his children, which was also done by Kiccha's friend due to unemployment. Kiccha gets devastated after seeing this. To eliminate the corruption and lack of employment in the society, Kiccha decides to stand as the sole candidate in the election against a politician cum rowdy Jayaraj (Ponnambalam) who is the mayor of the city. Kiccha can't get nominated because Jayaraj and his party members are strong and they have Rowdism along with politics. Kiccha goes to Jayaraj's place and thrashes him which leads Jayaraj to cancel his nomination against Kiccha. Kiccha stand as the candidate instead of Jayaraj. Kiccha was stabbed by someone in the festival, but nobody noticed who did this. Kiccha is admitted in the hospital. It is none other than Kiccha who stabbed himself to acquire public support and sympathy from the people.

Kiccha is selected as the Mayor, where he eliminates corruptions in the society. Kiccha marries Suma on his mother's request. When Kiccha sees the death of some poor people by eating cyanide which is mixed in their food. He suspects Welfare minister Chandrashekhar who might be involved in this murder. Kiccha takes necessary actions against the Welfare minister for these crimes. But unfortunately, the minister gets killed by tasting cyanide which is scrubbed in a file paper given by Kiccha. Chief Minister (Avinash) wants to see Kiccha. Kiccha is welcomed to the C.M's office. C.M will help Kiccha as he can ask anything from the Chief Minister. Kiccha requests the C.M that he like to work in children's education portfolio as the education minister. Immediately Kiccha become the education minister. He bribes money from many Government officials for providing education to the illiterate people and middle-class people from poverty. Kiccha becomes a corrupt politician which makes hatred to his mother, his wife and his friends towards Kiccha. Kiccha tells that he became the education minister to only do corruption. Sharadha and Suma leaves the place and won't come back in Kiccha's life again.

Former education minister Harikrishna sent some goons to finish Kiccha but he thrashes them and came to meet Harikrishna to bargain with him. If he stands with Kiccha they can make a Government and also Harikrishna will get the opportunity of C.M post by succeeding the present Chief Minister. Kiccha joint hands with Harikrishna. With the help of Kiccha, Harikrishna acquired support from politicians, M.L.A's and other parliamentary members. Kiccha who gave the wicked idea to Harikrishna of gaining the C.M seat, shoots every illegitimate activities done by these politicians. Kiccha shows the video of Harikrishna and other politicians to the Chief Minister and also tells that he is the mastermind behind in this. Kiccha also tells to the C.M that these people are only bothered about money and their post not about their responsibility. Suma gave birth to a baby boy. Kiccha who came eager to see his son is not showned by Suma. She also tells to Kiccha that she will continue as a widow and also nurture her child without Kiccha. Heartbroken Kiccha tries to change the corrupt system with the help of his friends. He donates fund available for the children in orphanage. He also donates fund to illiterate people for their children's education. Kiccha plans and arranges a speech show which consists of Chief minister, Harikrishna, Orphonage Trustee, and other politicians. Harikrishna hired some goons to shoot Kiccha after his speech. Kiccha declared publicly that free education will be provided, free transport service, free health facilities, free job services for unemployed people will be provided. But he states that these will not be happened due to corruption which is already spread over the state. Kiccha also tells that this is a part of the development of the state which becomes misery due to the corrupt politicians. Kiccha already had another plan to become minister to change the corrupt system. He is the one who had killed former Welfare minister Chandrashekar intelligently by scrubbing cyanide in a file which was given by Kiccha. And he also states publicly that Harikrishna had planned everything to finish Kiccha after the speech. Kiccha gets shot while presenting the speech by his friend. Kiccha had already planned with his friends to kill himself for stopping the entire corrupt system. But they can't do this to Kiccha. He states that if one gives his own life for the sake of everyone it will not be a guilty. Kiccha was shoted badly by his friends among the crowd and also make the public believe that Harikrishna's men are behind this. Few minutes before his death Kiccha tells that 'no one should get corrupted and unemployed'. The crowd attacked the guests including Chief Minister, Harikrishna and other corrupt politicians. Sharadha, Suma forgives Kiccha after knowing his sincerity and cries near Kiccha's body. The entire corrupt system is changed. Individuals in educational institutions, Government offices and other institutions prays for Kiccha's soul. A new government is formed in Karnataka which consists of sincere government officials including Chief Minister,Home Minister, District collector, Mayor.

Cast

Production

The film marks the second collaboration of Sudeep with director P. A. Arun Prasad after Chandu(2002), latter's first Kannada film. Debutant Swetha Agarwal was selected as the heroine. Producer Ramu choose music director Hamsalekha who collaborated with the former in many successful movies like AK-47, Lockup Death, Simhada Mari etc.

Soundtrack

Hamsalekha composed and written the music collaborating with Sudeep for the second time after Sparsha (2000). The music was released by Akash Audio.

Kiccha
Soundtrack album by
Hamsalekha
Released5 November 2003
Recorded2003
Genre Soundtrack
Length31:37
Label Akash Audio
Producer Hamsalekha
Hamsalekha chronology
Devara Makkalu
(2003)		Kiccha
(2003)		Ramaswamy Krishnaswamy
(2003)
External audio
Nuvola apps arts.svg Official Audio Jukebox on YouTube
Track list
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Dankanakkana" Shankar Mahadevan 5:16
2."Karna Kundala" Hariharan 6:33
3."Mankutimma Mankutimma" Shankar Mahadevan 4:32
4."Meghakke Megha" Hariharan, K. S. Chithra 5:38
5."Nanna Kasthuri" Udit Narayan, K. S. Chithra4:59
6."Ranga Nayakira"Anupama4:39
Total length:31:37

Reception

A critic from Viggy wrote that "Director P.A. Arun prasad manages to hold grip till the interval where majority of it are student life, unemployment problems, Kiccha playing a good samaritan for the needy, love and corrupt officials". [2] A critic from indiainfo.com wrote that "For a change in Kichha one could speak about Sudeep's performance that the grandeur, which is usually present in every film produced by Ramu". [3]

Box office

This film was a blockbuster at the box office. The success of the movie lead actor Sudeep to put the title name "Kiccha" as his stage name prefix which was already used as a nickname for his character in the movie Huchcha (2001). This film was a major milestone in Sudeep's career and also heightened his stardom as an action hero in Kannada Cinema.

Awards

Filmfare Awards South  :-

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