Yaare Koogadali

The story begins on a rainy night when Kumara (Puneeth Rajkumar) and Natesha (Yogesh) escape from NIMHANS and enter Bangalore with their past actions unclear. They settle at Shishupala's (Sadhu Kokila) residence and find jobs in a petrol bunk. Bharathi (Bhavana) comes into Kumara's life. Her initial wrong belief about him changes as soon as she knows his kind heartedness when she saw him help people in need (including her). She pursues him to be his girlfriend but he is not interested and warns her away due to his lifestyle. However, the residents of his neighborhood convince him that she loves him and is a good girl. He accepts her. Soon, love blooms between them. Kumara, along with his friends, starts a venture where customers can call and order a product such as groceries and the friends would buy and deliver them at a service charge. While distributing their venture's ads, they narrowly escape being spotted by a van with goondas spearheaded by Ravishankar who are in search of Kumara and Natesha. Soon, their business grows well. This makes Shishupala give an advertisement about their venture in a magazine with their photo. But due to the advertisement, the goons come to their store to attack them. Within a few minutes, a childhood friend of Kumara, arrives in Bangalore and shares some news.

The goons convince everyone in Kumara's neighborhood that he's gone mad and is not mentally sound.  Kumara's old life is shown in the second half, and it is revealed that he is persuaded to be mentally ill because of his father and stepmother's desire for wealth. His mother, who also happens to be his father's first wife is mentally sound and healthy but suffers due to her husband who is behind another woman and marries her. They frame Kumara's mother by saying she's mentally unsound. The film comes to an end after Kumara decides that he's had enough running away from the goons and decides to hit them back.

Yaare Koogadali began filming in June 2012 at Rajkumar's residence. V. Ravichandran made the first clap for a scene. Initially, actress Sameera Reddy was considered for and signed for the lead role,[3] but she was later replaced by Bhavana. The film title is inspired from an old song "Yaare Koogadali Oore Horadali" from the film Sampathige Savaal which featured Puneeth's father Rajkumar in the lead role. The houses of hero and heroine were built in an open terrace by art director Jacki.

The Central Board of Film Certification rated it U/A. The film opened on 20 December 2012 all over the state.

Yaare Koogadali
Soundtrack album by V. Harikrishna
Released	December 20, 2012
Recorded	2012
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	19:59
Label	Anand Audio
Producer	Parvathamma Rajkumar
External audio Official Audio Jukebox on YouTube

Popular composer V. Harikrishna scored the songs and soundtrack. Director Yogaraj Bhat wrote the lyrics for one song while the rest were written by Dr. V Nagendra Prasad.

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