roberrt starring challenging star darshan is the most anticipated movie in kannada film industry the film was supposed to release on april 9 however due to the coronavirus outbreak india has been under a 21day lockdown till april 14 now the team has decided to postpone the release to may 1 recently a song from the film was released by the makers and it gained a great response from the audience directed by tharun sudhir and produced by umapathy srinivas gowda robert will see asha bhat sonali monteiro and aishwarya rao playing the lead rolesumapathy srinivas gowda spoke exclusively about the postponing of the films release with etimes and revealed the movie was supposed to be released on april 9 due to the coronavirus pandemic we have postponed the release to may 1 we have also kept 15 days buffer time if there are any chances of lockdown meanwhile we are planning to do an audio release after april 14 we cant make bad decisions now because we have invested many crores in the moviethe outbreak of coronavirus has put a break on all shootings in the kannada film industry resulting in a lot of losses as well gowda further mentioned the situation due to coronavirus has affected the business many payments have been stopped around 67 crores have been stuck with an ott platform satellite rights and dubbing companies because they consider paying if it is working days this has benefited them and put us in a loss i am paying salaries to all my production units as i promised them to pay and clearing off all the payments all put together producers are facing a huge problem in the industrywe are planning to release the movie once everything gets normal if the situation gets normal by april 14 we will release on may 1 or it will get postponed further the censor certification of the movie was supposed to be done on march 26 but due to the lockdown that has been postponed too director tharun sudhir informed etimesroberrt is the most anticipated movie in kannada film industry the movie also has cast like jagapathi babu vinod prabhakar sonal monteiro ravi kishan and others arjun janya is composing music for the film