Masterpiece (2015 film)

Masterpiece

Promotional poster
Directed by Manju Mandavya
Produced by Vijay Kiragandur
Written by Manju Mandavya
Screenplay by Manju Mandavya
Starring Yash
Shanvi Srivastava
Music by V. Harikrishna
Cinematography Vaidhy.S
Edited by K. M. Prakash
Production
company
Hombale Films
Distributed by Jayanna Films
Release dates
  • 24 December 2015 (2015-12-24)
Running time
 2 hr 38 min
Country India
Language Kannada

Masterpiece (stylized as Master Piece, Kannada: ಮಾಸ್ಟರ್ ಪೀಸ್) is a 2015 Indian Kannada action-comedy film written and directed by Manju Mandavya. It stars Yash and Shanvi Srivastava in the lead roles. The supporting cast features Suhasini Maniratnam, P. Ravi Shankar and Chikkanna. The film was released on 24 December 2015.

Though the posters depicts Yash in Bhagat Singh costumes, the movie is not about the life history of Bhagat Singh.
"One portion of the film sees me as Bhagat Singh, but that does not make it a historic film. It is a pakka commercial film", says Yash in an interview.[1]

Cast

Plot

Yuva is a character with negative shades. He aspires to become a boss from childhood. He finds that wrong routes are the best way to achieve it. He starts fighting in school itself. He inscribes "BOSS" on his desk. When he reaches college, he beats up a guy as he refused to acknowledge him as boss. Soon there is fight with the college leader and the whole college recognizes him as "BOSS".

When his college is reputed for the production of gangsters and rowdies, his name is printed along with his photo on the newspaper with many others. Angry Yuva shouts and injures the editor of the newspaper and demands him to print his name and photo on the first page. His mom, whom Yuva calls Durgi, hates Yuva. In a temple, Yuva's sight falls on a girl named Nisha. He follows and finds out she is testing Yuva. Yuva soon falls in love with her.

Meanwhile, Yuva has a student(apparently) named Bruce Lee. After he passed out, Bruce Lee stands for the student elections and wins with the help of Yuva(whom Bruce Lee calls Bhaiyya). Noor Ahmed, a politician who wants to contest for the elections seeks the sort of Yuva after finding about Bruce Lee's win in student elections. Yuva makes a lot of money from Ahmed. Also he helps him win the elections.

Jealous by his progress, Guli Shankar, visits Yuva's home and has lunch without the permission of anyone. Yuva's mother is threatened by Shankar and Shankar states that he is angered that an unknown person has entered his field and his becoming boss. He states the good deeds which Yuva has done for which Yuva's mother replies a "THANKS". Yuva gets to know about this and goes to Shankar's place and gives him dinner which his mom has prepared. He fights with everyone except Shankar and Shankar has his dinner.

The police are on the trail of Drug Mafia don(boss) and the don moves into an elevator and points the gun at Nisha. Unknown to the don that Yuva is in the elevator, Yuva fights with solid punches and renders him unconscious. Yuva gets publicity from this and all news channels take his interview. One channel takes the interview of his mother and the mother recounts all this.

Yuva, however, uses his influence and changes the interview in such a way that Bruce Lee is the interrogator and he is a very good guy. Nisha's parents agree to marry her to Yuva believing all the lies.

Boss(drug mafia don) awakes and his gang trouble Yuva. They kidnap his sister's son during a programme in the school and the child returns at night. His mother is kidnapped in the temple and found by Yuva. When Yuva goes to the police for protection, the police refuse to give him protection as he is a rowdy. Nisha gets kidnapped in a mall and Yuva gets a call stating that Nisha will not return like the others and will not be released unless the don is brought back from hospital. Yuva finds a gun in Nisha's purse. Mastermind Yuva uses his talents and creates a fight in the hospital. He uses his gun to stop electricity flowing in the hospital. He brings the don out of the ward(like a puppet, catching his shirt). The police and Yuva faceoff and Yuva escapes. All this is recorded in the CCTV. The don is taken to Goa and Yuva demands the release of Nisha.

However he is attacked from behind and the don does not Yuva dead as he brought him like a chicken and so declares him the drug mafia don. So the police are on his trail now and he would be always in hiding. However Yuva gets angered when he sees his mom interrogated and attacked when his mom states that Yuva should be encountered. So he plans and kidnaps the don's brother. The don returns back to India from Dubai and demands search for his brother. Yuva sends a laptop where there is a recorded video of his brother and his other colleagues fighting and later Yuva bashing him up. The don sends a group for searching the island but he later comes to know that it is recorded video and Yuva returns and fights him and ties him up. Later Yuva loads all of them in a truck.

Yuva later stops and asks Bruce Lee to record a video where the don reveals that he has police help and politicians help. He states that India can never change and Obama should just come to India, go to Taj Mahal and go back and that he can't change India. He states that India has members tweeting "Come on India", but no one can change it. He says that his dream is to make drugs available in Provision stores. Yuva understands nationalism which his mom was trying to preach and says that we think of an alternative and will never find out anything about the problem or solution. He says he wanted to become superstar in front of his mom but he doesn't care if he becomes a villain now and shoots all of them stating that "He doesn't know what changes after this but drugs will not be available at provision stores". Yuva releases the video on Youtube and is arrested. But the whole of Karnataka fights for his release and he becomes a star for his mother who brings his favorite food and sees him as Bhagat Singh. His mom had taught him of stories of freedom fighters and great men who served the country in his childhood and now is happy as he became one of them

Production

The film was announced on 21 October 2014, to coincide with the occasion of Deepavali, a Hindu festival, by film producer Vijay Kiragandur that the film would be titled Masterpiece and would be produced under his banner Hombale Films. Dialogue-writer Manju Mandavya was chosen to direct, making his debut, who also wrote the screenplay and dialogues for the film.[2] On titling the film as Masterpiece, he said, "Masterpiece was a spontaneous title that somehow clicked when I was getting into the structure of the story and when the hero's character was developing in my mind." V. Harikrishna was chosen to compose the music for the film and Vaidhy was chosen as cinematographer.[3]

Casting

During the announcement, it was also announced that Yash would play the lead role in the film and that Suhasini Maniratnam would portray the role of his mother. The director said that two actresses, Anushka Shetty and Priya Anand were under consideration to play the female lead.[4] Following speculations, Shanvi Srivastava was signed in late-December 2014.[5] Chikkanna was cast in an important side role marking his 25th film in acting.

Filming and development

It was announced that the filming was scheduled to begin in November or early-December 2014, following the filming of Mr. and Mrs. Ramachari, another Yash-starrer.[3] However delayed, reports said filming was to begin in the second week of January 2015.[6] In June 2015, it was revealed that model Ekta Rathod would make a cameo appearance in the film.[7] In the midst of filming, The New Indian Express carried a report in July suggesting that Yash could be playing a negative role in the film, which however was not confirmed by the makers.[8] In course of filming its final schedule in September, it was revealed that the film would incorporate elements from the life story of a revolutionary leader of British India, Bhagat Singh. A schedule in Mysore was completed following which the song sequences were filmed.[9]

During Shooting of a song

A celebratory song was filmed across Bengaluru, and the song appears in the movie when Yash's character falls in love. The song also features Chikkanna and Shanvi Srivastava, and over 1,500 backup dancers. This is a record-breaking number in Kannada cinema.[10]

Director Manju Mandavya and the rest of the team were in Mysuru, completing the last schedule of the talky portions of their film. A lot of scenes related to Bhagat Singh have been shot in this schedule and coincidentally, the portions were shot on the freedom fighter’s birthday, which was on September 28.[11]

Marketing

Soundtrack

Masterpiece
Soundtrack album by V. Harikrishna
Released 10th December 2015
Recorded 2015
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label D Beats
Producer skandan

The background music and soundtracks are composed by V. Harikrishna, with lyrics for the soundtrack penned by Manju Mandavya, Narthan and Ghouse Peer.

The audio launch event of Masterpiece was supposed to happenning in a unique way, For the first-time the team members of Masterpiece had planned for an interesting audio release. Masterpiece music album includes 5 songs and was supposed to be released on 5 different days, starting from December 2 as follows: "Annange Love Aagidhe" (Dec 2), "I Can't Wait Baby" (Dec 4), "KD NO 1" (Dec 7), "Jaago Re Jaago" (Dec 8), "Attention Please" and trailer (Dec 10).[15][16]

Tracklist
No. TitleLyricsSinger(s) Length
1. "Annange Love"  Manju MandavyaYash, Chikkanna 4:17
2. "I Can't Wait Baby"  NarthanTippu, Indu Nagaraj 3:51
3. "KD No. 1"  Manju MandavyaTippu,Sangeetha Ravindranath 4:38
4. "Jaago Re Jaago"  Ghouse PeerKunal Ganjawala 4:10
5. "Attention Please"  NarthanRanjith, Rahul Nambiar, Naveen Madhav 3:51
Total length:
 20:47


References

  1. ↑ Yash has signed four films - The Times of India. Timesofindia.indiatimes.com (2015-03-07). Retrieved on 2016-01-03.
  2. ↑ "'Masterpiece' Yash". indiaglitz.com. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Cinematographer Vaidy Joins Masterpiece Team". The New Indian Express. 28 October 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "A Yash masterpiece in the making?". Bangalore Mirror. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Shanvi Srivastava to star opposite Yash in Manju Mandavya's next film 'Masterpiece'". ibnlive.in.com. 31 December 2014. Retrieved January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Shanvi Shrivastava opposite Yash in 'Masterpiece'". Business Standard. 31 December 2014. Retrieved January 2015.
  7. ↑ "Chikanna has a beautiful opponent in Mastepiece". The Times of India. 13 June 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  8. ↑ Sharadhaa, A. (13 July 2015). "Yash Sports a Negative Shade In Masterpiece". The New Indian Express (newindianexpress.com). Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  9. ↑ A. Sharadhaa (1 October 2015). "Masterpiece and its Bhagat Singh Connection". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  10. ↑ Yash sets a new record!. Times of India (10 November 2015)
  11. ↑ Masterpiece and its Bhagat Singh Connection. The New Indian Express (2015-10-01). Retrieved on 2016-01-03.
  12. ↑ "Masterpiece: Starring Rocking Star Yash First Look". movierani.com. 26 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  13. ↑ "Teaser of Yash's Masterpiece is here". The Times of India. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  14. ↑ "Masterpiece: Starring Rocking Star Yash Trailer". telangananewspaper.com. 20 December 2015.
  15. ↑ Masterpiece: Craze Builds For The Unique Audio Release. Filmibeat (2015-11-30). Retrieved on 2016-01-03.
  16. ↑ Masterpiece (Master Piece) Songs | Masterpiece Mp3 Songs Lyricist | Masterpiece Kannada Movie Songs. Filmibeat (2015-12-24). Retrieved on 2016-01-03.
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