Kirik Party
Kirik Party is a 2016 Indian Kannada-language romantic comedy film directed by Rishab Shetty and produced by G. S. Guptha and Rakshit Shetty.[5] It stars Rakshit Shetty, Rashmika Mandanna, Samyuktha Hegde, and Achyuth Kumar while Aravinnd Iyer, Dhananjay Ranjan, Chandan Achar and Pramod Shetty play prominent roles. Rakshit Shetty wrote the story and also co-wrote the script along with a team The Seven odds (which consisted of Rakshit Shetty, Rishab Shetty, Abhijith Mahesh, Dhananjay Ranjan, Kiranraj K, Chandrajith Belliappa).
This film marks the second directorial venture of Rishab Shetty after Ricky (2016), and also marks the film debut of Mandanna and Hegde. The principal photography commenced on 17 April 2016 at Malnad College of Engineering in Hassan and was completed in September 2016.[6] Karm Chawla and Sachin Ravi performed the cinematography and editing respectively. The film’s soundtrack features music composed by B. Ajaneesh Loknath, which received mostly positive response from audience, and became viral upon its release.
The film released worldwide on 30 December 2016 to positive response from critics. It became one of the highest grossing Kannada film all time and celebrated 250-days,[7] in over 15 theatres and also completed 365-days in multiplexes.[3] It won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Family Entertainer, and was nominated in seven categories at the 64th Filmfare Awards South, winning five of them. It also received five awards at the IIFA Utsavam and seven awards at the 6th South Indian International Movie Awards. The film was remade in Telugu as Kirrak Party.[8][9]
Kirik Party is the story of a gang of mischievous students, led by the protagonist Karna (Rakshit Shetty), who has just joined an engineering college. They belong to different streams of engineering but develop a bond while staying together in the hostel. The treatment is stylish with light humour while exploring the college life of these youngsters. Karna, the protagonist from a small town has joined this engineering college as a mechanical engineering student and he gangs up with his hostel mates Loki, Alexander, Manja and others to cause a lot of mischief in the college. During the first year he befriends Saanvi (Rashmika Mandanna) a Final year student and certain incidents impact Karna’s life making him question his very basic thought process.
The second half starts with the fun-loving girl Arya (Samyuktha Hegde), who is a student of first year Electrical engineering in the same college and falls in love with final year Mechanical engineering student Karna (Rakshith Shetty) at the end both start to love each other.
The progression of Karna and the gang from being a bunch of mischief makers to responsible adults is the theme of Kirik Party. It is a fun-filled film with lots of melodious songs.
