India, June 26 -- The first festival of the year, Sankranti, is generally one that Kannada filmmakers bypass and let big-ticket releases from, say, Tamil and Telugu to enjoy. This year, there were films like Ram Charan's Game Changer, Nandamuri Balakrishna's Daaku Maharaj and Venkatesh's Sankrantiki Vasthunam, among others, with the latter two doing well at the box office. Kannada filmmaker Keshav Moorthy decided to compete with the might of these films when he released his crime anthology Nimma Vasthugalige Neeve Javaabdaararu on January 10, 2025.

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Despite positive word-of-mouth, though, Nimma Vasthugalige Neeve Javaabdaararu did not have a...