Rocky: The Revenge

Rocky: The Revenge also simply known as Rocky which was earlier titled as Rocky: The Hero is a 2019 Indian Tamil dog-centric action crime thriller drama film written and directed by popular Bollywood filmmaker K. C. Bokadia in his Tamil directorial debut.[1] The film casts Srikanth in the main lead role as a cop along with two German Shepherd dogs.[2] Eshanya Maheshwari, Sayaji Shinde, Nassar, OAK Sundar, and Brahmanandam play supporting roles. The film is scheduled to be released on 12 April 2019 as a Summer release alongside another dog oriented concept film Watchman. The film's story is loosely based and inspired from 1985 Bollywood film Teri Meherbaniyan which was also directed by K. C Bokadia himself.[3] Teri Meherbaniyan was a remake of the Kannada film Thaliya Bhagya which had earlier been remade in Tamil as Nandri. This film was released in Telugu as Namaste Nestama.[4]

Rocky: The Revenge
Directed byK. C. Bokadia
Produced byHaresh Vikram Vijayakumar
StarringSrikanth
Eshanya Maheshwari
Nassar
Sayaji Shinde
OAK Sundar
Music byBappi Lahiri
CinematographyAzmal Khan
Release date
12 April 2019
Running time
152 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

The movie begins with few animal smugglers entering a bungalow and steals two puppies of German shepherd breed. While on the way, the door of the van opens and one of the puppies falls down. ACP Santhosh (Srikanth) who rescues the pup takes it to his house. He and his wife (Eshanya Maheshwari) name it Rocky and send it to police dog training school. A few years later, the fully trained Rocky returns home. Meanwhile, Santhosh is at loggerheads with the local MLA Thenappan (Sayaji Shinde). Santhosh arrests Paandi (OAK Sundar), the henchman of Thenappan on weapon smuggling case and puts him behind the bar. An irked MLA waits for a chance to kill Santhosh and bumps him off; the eyewitness to the murder is Rocky. The rest is all about how Rocky avenges the death of his master.

Cast

Production

The venture was announced by prominent figure in Bollywood industry K. C Bokadia in 2018 who has produced in excess of 50 Hindi films in his career.[3] The portions of the film were shot and set in Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Udaipur and Kulu Manali.

Marketing

The official teaser of the film was unveiled on 8 April 2019 and indicating the film release on 12 April.[5]

Plea

The filmmakers were made aware of a plea at the Madras High Court regarding the change of film title during early April 2019.[6] The plea suggested to not to use the term Rocky in the film title as another completed Tamil film which is on the frontline to have its theatrical release also possess the same name. The filmmakers initially announced the film title as Rocky before commencing principal photography and then after the conclusion of the filmmaking the director renamed the title as Rocky The Hero for temporal reason. However the teaser of the film revealed the title as Rocky The Revenge.[6]

References
  1. Rocky:The Revenge Movie: Showtimes, Review, Trailer, Posters, News & Videos | eTimes, retrieved 9 April 2019
  2. Subramanian, Anupama (2 April 2019). "Srikanth back as a cop in Rockky". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  3. "Bollywood's Bokadia ventures into Tamil film world with 'Rocky'". News Today | First with the news. 4 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  4. https://telanganatoday.com/filmmaker-bokadia-experiments-in-telugu-with-namaste-nestama
  5. "Rocky The Revenge: ஸ்ரீகாந்த் போலீசாக நடித்துள்ள ராக்கி தி ரிவென்ச் படத்தின் டீசர்!-tamil-music-videos-Video | Samayam Tamil". tamil.samayam (in Tamil). 1 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  6. "Plea to restrain filmmaker from using 'Rocky' title for Tamil movie". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
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