''Manjunatha BA, LLB'' is a 2012 Indian

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

-language

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending ( black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the o ...

written and directed by actor-turned-director

Mohan Shankar Mohan Shankar, popularly known as Mohan, is a Kannada film actor, who started his acting career in 2000 with the movie ''Yaarige Saluthe Sambala''. He reached the peak of popularity with movies like ''Kurigalu Saar Kurigalu'', '' Kothigalu Sa ...

. The film stars

Jaggesh Jaggesh is an Indian politician, actor, director and producer, who mainly works in the Kannada film industry. He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 2022 and the spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnat ...

and

Reema Vohra Reema Worah is an Indian film and television actress. She played the role of Vaidehi in Colors TV's show ''Na Aana Is Des Laado''. She appeared in Life OK's TV show ''Do Dil Ek Jaan''. She appeared in ''Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap'' ...

in the lead roles. The film is a remake of 2007 Malayalam film '' Hallo'' which itself was based on the 2004 movie '' Cellular''.

Plot

Cast

as Adv. Manjunatha * Tabla Nani as Basheer *

as Sneha * Karibasavaiah * Srinivasamurthy * Girija Lokesh * Chidananda * Spoorthi Suresh as Prakruthi * Swastik Shankar * Shankar Patil

Reception

Critical response

A critic from ''

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'' scored the film at 2.5 out of 5 stars and says "Reema Vora is okay. Except for Srinivasamurthy, other artistes fail to impress. Music by Vinaya Chandra and cinematography by Ashok V Raman are average". Shruti I L from DNA wrote "Making one laugh comes naturally to Jaggesh and Naani, if only director Mohan had a more interesting, engaging and well executed script to do justice to the actors. Watch the film if you are a hard core Jaggesh fan who never gives any of his films a miss!". Srikanth Srinivasa from Rediff.com scored the film at 2.5 out of 5 stars and says "Reema Vohra has done justice to her role and so has Spoorthi as Manjunatha's first girlfriend. Chandrashekar of Yeddakallu Guddadamele makes a brief appearance as the heroine's father. Though there are too many characters, which leaves one confused, Manjunatha BA LLB is a watchable film". A Sharadhaa from

The New Indian Express ''The New Indian Express'' is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Chennai-based Express Publications. It was founded in 1932 as ''The Indian Express'', under the ownership of Chennai-based P. Varadarajulu Naid ...

wrote "Ashok Raman has disappointed with his camera work and there is nothing much to talk about Vinay Chandra’s music. The Verdict: When the lawyer is incapable, the judgement is never in his favour". A critic from

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wrote "Jaggesh saves bits of the film with his inimitable punchlines that are his trademark. A couple of songs are pleasing. But the background score, for the most part, is a torture. It manages to snuff out the dialogues even. The director shows lack of imagination and towards the end, the film seems to have been hurriedly wrapped up".

References

External links

2012 films 2010s Kannada-language films 2012 comedy films Kannada remakes of Malayalam films Indian comedy thriller films {{2010s-comedy-film-stub