Jackie

Jackie is a 2010 Indian Kannada-language action film directed by Soori and stars Puneeth Rajkumar, Sumithra, Harshika Poonacha, Rangayana Raghu and Bhavana in lead roles. It was released in Kannada on 14 October 2010 to a critical acclaim and was adjudged the Best Film of 2010 at the South Filmfare Awards. The Telugu dubbed version was released on 6 May 2011 The film is noted for its technical prowess, witty dialogues and lyrics, combined with an art that has become a trademark of Soori's rustic feel cinema. It is also considered one of the trend-setter films of the Kannada film industry. One of the landmark movies in Puneeth Rajkumar's career, the movie was especially noted for its music by V. Harikrishna. Yograj Bhat was the lyricist for all the songs of the movie. The album, which celebrated its platinum disc, is also available as a 5.1 audio DVD disc. After successful screening in Australia, United Kingdom and Germany, Jackie was released in the US and Singapore in February 2011. A portion of the song Kannalle Eno from Rajkumar's 1980 movie Vasantha Geetha was re-used in the title track of this movie. Plot Janakirama aka Jackie is an 8th standard school dropout, who is living with his mother Jayamma and operates a flour mill in a village with his mother. Jackie dreams of making it big; but not by hard work and also is an expert card player and thinks he can repay all his debts with earnings from it. He does every job and hopes that he would one day make it big as a real estate dealer. He is talkative and uses the opportunities around him to eke out a living. In the locality where he lives, his friend Yashodha, who is a priest's daughter reveals that she is in love with a photo studio owner Parangi Seena who is actually a conduit for a human trafficker and asks Jackie to help her get married.