Bazaar

Bazaar is an Indian Kannada action crime film directed by Suni and produced by Thimmegowda under Bharathi Film Productions banner.^[1] The film stars Dhanveer Gowda,^[2] a debutant and Aditi Prabhudeva in the lead roles along with Sadhu Kokila, Sharath Lohitashwa and Aruna Balaraj in the supporting roles.^[3] The film’s plot deals with the gambling process involved in the pigeon racing.^[4] The film is shot in the real locations across Bengaluru, Mysore and Tumkur where the pigeon races are actually held.^[5]

The technical crew members for the film include Ravi Basrur as the music composer, Santhosh Rai Pathaje as the cinematographer, Abhishek. M as the editor. Initially planned to release on the Sankranthi festival day, the makers postponed the release to 1 February 2019.^[6]

Plot

Kalki is an orphan who is raised by a gangster named Yajamana after he saved him from an attack. Kalki aspires to become a pigeon racer and finally becomes a top pigeon racer after defeating Yajamana’s rival Shikhar. Kalki falls in love with Pari, a middle-class fashion designer and a mind-over-heart girl. Kalki celebrates every time Pari rejects his proposal, but soon ends up falling in love with her and doesn’t express it. Pari soon proposed to Kalki who finally accepts her proposal. Tragedy strikes Kalki’s life as Yajamana gets brutally murdered and Kalki makes Pari to hate him in order to save her. Pari soon accepts to marry the boy of her father’s choice. Shikhar finds that the gang called as Dope were responsible for Yajamana’s death and joins hands with them to finish Kalki. Kalki confronts Shikhar at the temple festival and learns about the Dope gang, who later finish Shikhar and sets out to finish Kalki. However, a brutally injured Kalki finishes the Dope gang, thus avenging Yajamana’s death. Pari learns that Kalki had helped the bride to impress her family, where she leaves the wedding and finally reunites with Kalki.

Cast

Dhanveer Gowda as Kalki
Aditi Prabhudeva as Parijatha aka Pari^[7]
Amir Ali Shaik as Waiter
Sharath Lohitashwa as Yajamana
Sadhu Kokila as Jumanji
Sheelam m Swamy as Police officer
Chethan Chandra
Silli lalli Anand
Chitkala Biradar
Aruna Balaraj as Kalki’s adopted mother
Manjunath Hegde ae Kalki’s adopted father
Sheelam M Swamy as Police
Hampa Kumar Angadi as Hampa, a Pegion Racer
Arjun A R as Dope
Kiran as Dope
Vishal Anvekar as Dope
Pradeep as Dope
Vatara Mallesh
Vishwavijeth gowda as Dopu
Raj Deepak Shetty as Shikhar

Soundtrack

Bazaar
Soundtrack album by Ravi Basrur
Released	15 August 2018
Recorded	2018
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Anand Audio
Producer	Ravi Basrur

Ravi Basrur has scored the soundtrack and score for the film. A total of three songs were composed by him. The audio was launched under the Ananda audio label by actor Darshan in Bengaluru.^[8]

Track listing
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	“Love Failure”	Vishnu. S	Vijay Prakash, Santhosh Venky	05:26
2.	“Yeko Yeno”	Sachin Shetty Kumble	Sanjith Hegde, Anuradha Bhat	03:52
3.	“Ondooralli Obba Yajamana”	Kinnal Raj	Kailash Kher	02:53
4.	“Masana Seroythu”	Pramod Jaya	Ravi Basrur	03:01
5.	“Masana Seroythu”	Pramod Jaya	Mehaboob Saab	03:01

Critical reception

Vinay Lokesh of The Times of India gave three out of five stars, praising score he stated, “Watch this movie to know about the world of pigeon racing which is laced with a love story, mass dialogues and action sequences”.^[9]