Orange (2018 film)
Orange is a 2018 Indian Kannada-language romantic comedy film directed by Prashant Raj and produced by Naveen starring Ganesh in the lead, making it a second collaboration after Zoom (2016), alongside Priya Anand. The supporting cast features Dev Gill, Sadhu Kokila, Ravishankar Gowda, Rangayana Raghu and Avinash among others. The music is scored by S. Thaman and cinematography is by Santhosh Rai Pathaje. The film team has shot three songs and few montage scenes across several cities of the Europe continent. The film released across Karnataka on 7 December 2018. The film marks the first ever venture in Kannada cinema to have been acquired by the Amazon Prime prior to its release. Plot
Santhosh is a Robin Hood who gets released from prison and boards a train for his village. Santhosh meets Radha and become friends, where she tells him that she is in love with her boyfriend Prashanth, but her father Huli Veeraiah disapproves. Santhosh leaves the train to catch the thief who stole Radha's bracelet, but Radha misunderstands that Santhosh has reached his destination where she gives his bag and belongings and bid farewell. Santhosh tries unsuccessfully to find her where he goes to Huli Veeraiah's house and the family lets Santhosh to stay at their house after they misunderstands him to be Radha's boyfriend. One day, Radha arrives back and the family fixes her marriage with Santhosh. In the village festival, Narasimha is a gangster and Huli Veeraiah's rival who tries to trouble Radha, but is saved by Santhosh. A comical events occur in the house as Prashanth and his family arrive. Radha learns about Santhosh's identity and soon falls in love with him. One night, a group of thieves barge into Huli Veeraiah's house and steals necklaces from the house, where Santhosh becomes the suspect and is thrown out of the house. Narasimha starts to trouble Huli Veeraiah again at Radha's marriage, where he shows the captured Santhosh to instill fear in them. However, Huli Veeraiah doesn't budge and insults Santhosh calling him as a thief, but Santhosh's grandmother intervenes and reveals that Santhosh was stealing money to run an orphanage and old-age home for the poor and depressed people. Santhosh wakes up and fights Narasimha, where he gets him arrested. Huli Veeraiah apologize to Santhosh and unites him with Radha, leaving Prashanth devastated. 