'' Dhairyam'' (English: ''Courage'') is a 2017 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 ...

film directed by Shiva Tejas who earlier directed ''Male'' (2015), and produced by Dr. K Raju under the banner Raj Production. The film stars

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, Aditi Prabhudeva,

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, and Honnavalli Krishna. The music was composed by Emil, and art direction was done by K. Shiva Kumar. Stunt sequences were choreographed by Ravi Varma. The principal photography commenced on 18 September 2016 in Bangalore. The film was later dubbed in Hindi as Dhairyam in 2018 on rkd studio.

Plot

''Dhairyam'' is about Ajay (

), a state level rank student who comes from a lower-middle-class background and is always in financial trouble. He falls in love with Parimala, whose parents are very practical about relationships and impose many terms and conditions in order for her to marry him. Ajay is already in too much of a burden as he has to arrange money for his father's cancer operation. The story is about how he manages these hurdles.

Cast

as Ajay * Aditi Prabhudeva as Parimala *

as DCP Kashyap *

as Minister Dhasharatha *

as Politician *

Honnavalli Krishna Honnavalli Krishna is an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry. Some of the notable films of Honnavalli Krishna as an actor include ''Ratha Sapthami'' (1986), ''Aasegobba Meesegobba'' (1990), ''Bhootayyana Maga Ayyu'' (1974), ''Janumada Jo ...

as Ajay's father * Srinivas Prabhu as Parimala's father *Sangeetha as Parimala's mother *Padhmini as Ajay's mother

Soundtrack

The film's score and soundtrack were composed by Emil.

References

External links

* 2017 films 2010s Kannada-language films Indian action films Indian vigilante films Indian coming-of-age films 2017 action films 2010s coming-of-age films 2010s vigilante films {{2010s-Kannada-film-stub