Chakravyuha

1983 155’ col Kannada d V. Somasekhar pc Eswari Pics. p N. Veeraswamy s M.D. Sundar dial/lyr Chi. Udayashankar c Chittibabu m Shankar-Ganesh lp Ambarish, Vajramuni, Ambika, Prabhakar, Thoogudeepa Srinivas, Shakti Prasad, H.N. Chandrasekhar, Shanthamma, Prashanti Nayak, Master Arjun, Ravichandran

Typical early 80s Kannada crime story with ‘rebel star’ Ambarish. The unemployed Amarnath (Ambarish), helped by a politician, trains to be a cop and serves the state honestly until he discovers a criminal network that includes his politician-benefactor as well as his own father-in-law. Blackmailed into collaborating with them, Amarnath soon becomes integrated into the network. The narrative, however, ascribes to him a secret purpose in order to justify the collaboration. The film ends with Amarnath, now a politician heading a new government, decimating his entire cabinet of criminals with a machine gun.

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