''Looty'' is a 2018 Indian

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

-language

crime thriller film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as drama or gangster film, but al ...

directed by Girish Kamplapur and starring

Isha Koppikar Isha Koppikar (born 19 September 1976) is an Indian actress, politician and Model (person), model who has acted mainly in Hindi cinema, Hindi films, but also in Tamil cinema, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu language, Telugu, and Marathi language, Marathi ...

as a cop, in her return to Kannada cinema after a gap of seventeen and a half years, alongside

Dhruv Sharma Dhruv Sharma (1982 – 1 August 2017) was an Indian Kannada-language actor and cricketer. Career Acting career Dhruv Sharma played a small role in ''Yahoo'' (2004). He made his debut as a lead actor with ''Snehanjali'' (2007), which won th ...

and Shweta Pandit. Having started production in 2013, the film released after a four-year delay.

Cast

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Dharma Vish.

and

shot for a song choreographed by Imran Sadhariya in Bangalore in 2014.

Reception

A critic from ''

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'' wrote "Although curiosity simmers around the film because of its title and the presence of Bollywood actress Isha Koppikar as the protagonist, it successfully manages to get rid of your curiosity within the first few frames of the film". A critic from ''

The Times of India ''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation an ...

'' rated the film out of 5 stars and wrote that "Director Girish Kamplapur's attempt to churn out a thriller by keeping a bank robbery as the theme falls flat. Perhaps, if he had concentrated more on robbery operation and on investigative angle it might been a better watch". A critic from ''

The News Minute ''The News Minute'' is an Indian digital news platform based in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was founded by Vignesh Vellore who is also the current CEO in 2014. Apart from Karnataka, it also has bureaus in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, ...

'' wrote "Looty sets a new standard for how to make a bad film. Director Girish Kamplapur's attempt to bring out a comedy thriller falls flat in every category. The story lacks intensity, the actors look tired and drained and the joke is on us for paying money to watch the film. The little said about the music, the better".

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 9389566 2010s Kannada-language films 2018 crime thriller films Indian crime thriller films