Moorane Krishnappa

The village president Veeranna is seeking to utilize the newly built temple inauguration to gain more votes and beat his political rival Loki. He has invited a famous movie actor Michael Madhu but the actor's sudden demise, ruins Veeranna's plan and he assigns the task to arrange for another bigger personality to the temple inaugural function for government school maths teacher Krishnappa, the third person with that name in the village so the film's title. Krishnappa reaches out to his friend for convincing the Chief Minister to be the guest. What happens when the friend betrays and make Krishnappa a scapegoat, to face the humiliation and how does Krishnappa make things right to get back his respect, forms rest of the story.

The film with it's Kannada dialect stands apart and there is a lot of sincerity in the way all the characters are written. There is a clear distinction between white and grey characters but ultimately, all humans are good and act according to the circumstances seems to be the principle for chalking out every character. Rangayana Raghu and Sampath obviously stand out. The problem I had was with the slow paced narrative which got even slower by the third act as the lead character visits Bengaluru. I still liked the intent however the resolution was all too convenient and filmy. Overall, it's the actors who make it largely work.