Dattha

Datta
Datta
	Chi Guru Dutt
Written by	Janardhana Maharshi
Produced by	Chi Guru Dutt
Starring	Darshan; Ramya ; Keerthi Chawla
Cinematography	Ramesh Babu
Edited by	Deepu S Kumar
Music by	R. P. Patnaik
Production; company	Udayaravi Cinemaz
Release date	8 June 2006;
Running time	146 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Dattha is a 2006 Indian Kannada-language

Chi Guru Dutt and written by Janardhana Maharshi. The film stars Darshan and Ramya whilst Keerthi Chawla, Srinath and Vinaya Prasad play other pivotal roles.^[1]

The film featured an original score and soundtrack composed by R. P. Patnaik. The film, upon release, received an average response from both critics and the audience.^[2] Few comedy sequences were based on the 2003 Telugu movie Maa Alludu Very Good for which dialogues were penned by the story writer of this movie Janardhana Maharshi.

Plot

Datta and his friend Tingu are small-time crooks. They get in the wrong books of drug peddler Basha. During one of their thefts, Datta sees Ramya and falls for her. In order to woo her, Datta returns what has been stolen in her house and also pretends to be a well-educated person and also acts as a

SI

. However, she finds out and breaks up with him, also insulting him in the process.

Later, Datta is persuaded by a

businessman

Shanti Veerappa, who requests him to act like his son Raju, so that his wife Meenakshi would recover from a bedridden sickness. However, Shanti Veerappa plots to eliminate Datta. Once his rivals finish datta who is enacting his son, he can bring back Raju and be assured of his safety.

Datta, not knowing Shanti Veerappa's ploy goes out along with Shanti Veerappa's family to his village, but is surprised that he is being constantly followed and attacked by Mallikarjuna's goons; who he feels that they are henchmen of Basha. Ramya, who is the daughter of Shanti Veerappa's rival also tries to eliminate Datta, thinking that he is Raju, but realizes her mistake and reconcile with him. Datta manages to stop Mallikarjuna and Shanti Veerappa enmity, where the families apologize to each other and accepts Datta.

Cast

Darshan as Dattha
Ramya
Keerthi Chawla
Komal as Tingu
Srinath as Shanti Veerapa
Avinash
Vinaya Prakash
Chitra Shenoy
Bullet Prakash as Gandhinagar Ghouse
Besant Ravi as Henchman
Rajashekhar Kotian as Baasha Bhai
Shanthamma
Preethi Rao
Vatara Mallesh
Vishwas Bharadwaj
Dr. Nagesh Kaveti
O. A. K. Sundar
M. N. Suresh
Mohan Juneja as Police Officer
Vaijanath Biradar

Soundtrack

The music was composed by R. P. Patnaik.^[3] A part of the song "Valamenukkum" from Chithiram Pesuthadi was reused in "Baare Baare".

Track listing
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)
1.	"Escape Mamu"	V. Nagendra Prasad	Karthik
2.	"Manasa Manasa"	K. Kalyan	Kunal Ganjawala, Shreya Ghoshal
3.	"Ee Soundaryakke"	K. Kalyan	Kunal Ganjawala, Nanditha
4.	"Kannige Kaanisuva"	K. Kalyan	Madhu Balakrishnan
5.	"Baare Baare"	V. Nagendra Prasad	Shankar Mahadevan, Malathi

Reception

R. G. Vijayasarathy from Rediff.com wrote that "All in all, an above average effort".^[4] A critic from Indiaglitz wrote that "Director Gurudutt returning back to fold after 10 years has worked out very well to keep the audience engaged in the theatre. For the fans of Darshan and family audience this is worth watching because of the strengths in the film".^[5]