''Ricky'' is a 2016 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

crime thriller film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

written and directed by

Rishab Shetty Prashant Shetty, known professionally as Rishab Shetty, is an Indian actor and film maker who primarily works in Kannada cinema. He is known for his critical and commercial blockbuster, '' Kantara'', for which he directed and acted as the main ...

in his directorial debut, and produced by S. V. Babu. It stars

Rakshit Shetty Rakshit Shetty (born 6 June 1983) is an Indian actor, film producer, writer and filmmaker of Kannada cinema. He is the recipient of two Filmfare Awards South. Early life Shetty was born in Udupi on 6 June 1983 in a Tulu-speaking Bunt family. ...

and

Haripriya Shruthi Chandrasena, known professionally as Haripriya, is an Indian actress and model who chiefly works in Kannada films, in addition to a few Tamil and Telugu films. Haripriya is currently engaged to Kannada actor Vasista.N. Simha. Early life ...

in the lead roles. The supporting cast features

Achyuth Kumar Achyuth Kumar is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Kannada cinema. Born in the town of Belur, in the district of Hassan and brought up in Tiptur. He graduated in bachelor of commerce from the Kalpatharu First Grade College, which was ...

and

Ravi Kale Ravi Kale is an Indian actor known for his works in Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Marathi films. Filmography ;Marathi *'' Bangarwadi'' (1995) *'' Sumbaran'' (2009) *'' Pipani'' (2012) *'' Vanilla,Strawberry & Chocolate'' (2018) ;Hindi * ...

. The film deals with the prevalence of naxalism in India, with a love story in the backdrop.

Plot

Richard "Ricky" (

) is engaged to his childhood friend Radha (

). He leaves to the north for a year for his job and promises her to return as soon as possible. However, when he returns, he cannot find her as she along with her family have disappeared. He searches for her and finds out that she has now become a Naxalite named Seetha. He discovers that she had turned into a Naxalite to avenge the wrongful destruction of her home by the Government and her parents' death. The complications start to affect them both and lead them to dangerous situations.

Cast

as Richard "Ricky" *

as Radha/Seetha *

Pramod Shetty Pramod shetty an Indian actor known for his work in Kannada cinema. Pramod started his carrier as a theater artist. He also appread in several kannada serial. Pramod made his film debut in 2010 with film '' Jugaari''. He got recognition for his ...

* Veena Sunder * Shashikala *

Sadhu Kokila Sahaya Sheelan Shadrach (born 24 March 1966) known by his screen name Sadhu Kokila, is an Indian musician, actor, comedian, film director and producer, and an occasional screenwriter and lyricist who works in Kannada cinema. He began his care ...

* Manjunath * Dinesh Mangaluru * Raghu Pandeshwar

Production

Development and casting

, who had earlier starred in

's 2014 film '' Ulidavaru Kandanthe'', turned director for the first time with ''Ricky''. Shetty had conceived the story in 2009 inspired from an incident that occurred in

Kundapur Kundapur, also called Kundapura, is a coastal town situated in the Udupi district of the state of Karnataka, India. This town was known as Coondapoor while it was part of the erstwhile South Canara district (1862–1947) of the Madras Pre ...

near his hometown Kerady in

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, as an aspiring film director. He said, "I was born and brought in Kerady, a place near Kundapura, which is surrounded with mountains. It was a Naxal-affected area and I used to hear several stories from people around me, which formed the backdrop of the story" and added, "I have also explored an incident about

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s, which I picked up from a programme by the central government". Shetty had initially wanted

Diganth Diganth Manchale (born 28 December 1983), mononymously known as Diganth, is an Indian actor and former model who primarily works in Kannada films. Diganth made his acting debut in ''Miss California'' in 2006. He is a recipient of one SIIMA Awa ...

to play the lead role. However, on watching

's 2010 ''Tughlaq'', he decided to have him play the role. He planned to signing

Hariprriya Shruthi Chandrasena, known professionally as Haripriya, is an Indian actress and model who chiefly works in Kannada films, in addition to a few Tamil and Telugu films. Haripriya is currently engaged to Kannada actor Vasista.N. Simha. Early li ...

after being impressed by her performance in the 2014 film ''

Ugramm ''Ugramm'' is a 2014 Indian Kannada-language action thriller film directed by Prashanth Neel and produced under the banner Inkfinite Pictures with his brother Pradeep Neel as the executive producer. It stars Srimurali and Haripriya as the lea ...

''. It was revealed in February 2014 that Kishore and

were signed to play supporting roles. Ravi Kale was then was cast to play a pivotal role as well.

Filming

It was revealed by the official Twitter handle of the film that shooting commenced on 1 September 2014, also revealing the first look poster of the film. Filming began in

Karkala ''Karkala'' also known as Karla in Tulu language, is a town and the headquarters of Karkala taluk in the Udupi district of Karnataka, India. Located about 60 km from Mangalore in the Tulu Nadu region of the state,it lies near the foothill ...

Udupi district Udupi district (also Udipi or Odipu in Tulu language) is an administrative subdivision in the Karnataka state of India, with the district headquarters in the city of Udupi. It is situated in the Canara coastal region, there are seven talu ...

. Majority of the filming took place in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada. Rakshit Shetty confirmed that 90 percent of the filming was completed by 12 October, in a span of 42 days, with a song sequence to be shot in

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

. The director revealed that songs and fight sequences were to be shot in Bengaluru. A house worth 1 million was constructed in the area for filming in Kalavaru village at the Western Ghats region, to resemble the house of an agriculturist that was demolished previously, after orders from a court. Setting to complete filming in a total of 99 days, a total of 46 days was done in the deep forests of

, in the

. Additionally, filming took place for four days in

Bangalore Bangalore (), List of renamed places in India, officially Bengaluru (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan area, metropolitan population of a ...

, nine days in

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, and 12 days in areas surrounding the

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of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. Filming completed in June 2015 after a total of 69 days.

Soundtrack

Arjun Janya Arjun Janya (born Lokesh Kumar) is an Indian film score soundtrack composer and singer. Arjun made his film debut in the 2006 Kannada film ''Autograph Please''. Since then he has composed and scored music for successful films such as '' Biruga ...

composed the film's background and scored for its soundtrack. Lyrics for the soundtrack was penned by K. Kalyan,

Kaviraj Kaviraj (or Rajkavi, Kaviraja) is a title of honor, which was given to poets and litterateurs attached to royal courts in medieval India. Eminent Charans who were inducted into the royal courts due to their literary merit as royal poets and his ...

and

Jayant Kaikini Jayanth Kaikini (born 24 January 1955) is a poet, short story writer, playwright, columnist in Kannada and a lyricist in Kannada Cinema. He has so far published six anthologies of short stories, four books of poetry, three plays and a collecti ...

. The soundtrack album consists of five tracks. It was released on 31 December 2015 in

Release

The film was given a "U/A" (Parental Guidance) certificate by the Regional Censor Board in early January 2016. Including a "couple of changes", the makers were asked to mute seven dialogues. Immediately afterwards, the makers, initially on having planned to release the film theatrically on 22 January, decided to release it on 29 January, citing "theatre problems", with many other films releasing on 22 January. However, as initially planned, it was released on 22 January.

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 5258390, Ricky 2016 films 2010s Kannada-language films Films scored by Arjun Janya Indian crime thriller films Films about Naxalism 2016 crime thriller films Films directed by Rishab Shetty