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Theatrical release poster
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Directed by | Duniya Soori |
Produced by | Parvathamma Rajkumar |
Written by | Duniya Soori |
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Music by | V. Harikrishna |
Cinematography | Satya Hegde |
Edited by | Deepu S. Kumar |
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Poornima Enterprises
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Running time
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142 minutes |
Country | India |
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Kannada Malayalam Telugu |
Budget | ₹7 crore (US$1.0 million) |
Box office | ₹34 crore (US$5.1 million) |
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Soundtrack album by V. Harikrishna | |
Released | August 2010 |
Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
Label | Anand Audio |
Jackie is a 2010 Indian multilingual film directed by Soori and features Kannada actor Puneet Rajkumar and Bhavana Menon in the lead roles. It was released in Kannada on 14 October 2010 to a critical acclaim and was adjudged the Best Film of 2010 at the South Filmfare Awards. Dubbed Telugu version was released on 6 May 2011 while Malayalam version release date is yet to be announced.
The film is noted for its technical prowess, witty dialogs and lyrics, combined with an art that has become a trademark of Soori's rustic feel cinema.It is also known as one of the trend setter film & all time highest grosser of Kannada film industry.One of the notable performance & Landmark movie in Puneeth Rajkumar's career Music was composed by V. Harikrishna with Yograj Bhat as the lyricist for all the songs in Kannada. The album, which celebrated its platinum disc, is also available as a 5.1 audio DVD disc. After successful screening in Australia, United Kingdom and Germany, Jackie was released in the USA and Singapore in February 2011.
A portion of the song Kannalle Eno from Rajkumar's 1980 movie Vasantha Geetha was re-used in the title track of this movie.
Jackie is basically inspired from Ramayana, each scene is modernised into present audience and market trends. Janakirama alias Jackie (played by Puneet Rajkumar) is an 8th standard passed living with his mother Jayamma who operates a flour mill in a village. Jackie is a guy who dreams of making it big; but not by hard work. He is an expert card player and thinks he can repay all his debts with earnings from it. He does every job and hopes he would one day make it big as a realtor. He is talkative and uses the opportunities around him to eke out a living. In the locality where he lives, a priest's daughter Yashodha (played by Harshika Poonacha), is in love with a photo studio owner who is actually a conduit for a human trafficker and asks Jackie to help her get married. Jackie initially tries to help but when the priest questions him, he decides to cop out of the issue respecting the aged father's feelings.