They bring a woman Swathi, who lives in his house and torture her. This angers Keerthi who orders her guardian's son (who wants to marry her for the same reason) to attack Naanu. He prints wedding cards and distributes it to all, including the employees working in Keerthi's establishments. However she finds out that Naanu wants to marry a billionaire Keerthi whose deceased father decides that her husband would inherit her entire wealth. A young woman Rathi learns of her father's hatred towards her in this process and falls in love with Naanu. In the process, he exposes the truth behind everything. Naanu since childhood hates hypocrisy and always speaks the truth. A sequel tilted Uppi 2 was released in 2015.īetala begins to narrate one of his puzzling tales to Vikramāditya which is the story of Naanu (translates to I/Me/Myself), an ego-driven selfish rogue and the three women in his life. It was screened at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in Japan in 2001.

A Japanese who saw the film in Bangalore was impressed by it as he found it similar to the story of Buddha and the concept of Maslow's hierarchy of needs and hence got it released in Japan. The film won Filmfare Award for Best Film (Kannada) and Filmfare Award for Best Director (Kannada). It is said that the director named it as Upendra with the thought that the name includes the names of the main characters of the film (U-Upendra, P-Prema, D-Damini & Ra-Raveena). The songs of the film were written by Upendra and music was composed by Gurukiran. The film explores three human emotions through the relationship between the main character and the three heroines. It starred Upendra, Raveena Tandon, Prema and Damini. Upendra is a 1999 Indian Kannada-language psychological thriller film written and directed by Upendra.

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