
All it takes for the Heroine to put him down is just one item from the kitchen. He enjoys attacking her for trivial things, as it makes him look powerful.Īfter she has suffered enough, she hits him back with a pressure cooker and the Villain inevitably falls to his death. He’s the kind of husband who pulls his wife’s hair for not being able to drink coffee the way he likes it. He’s a serial domestic abuser who doesn’t respect her boundaries. Shouldn’t men who intend to harm women be termed villains? Why is the guy with the razor referred to as the Hero then? It’s because the Villain is a wife beater. But, as you already know, the Hero has other ideas. The Hero is summoned by the Villain for the sole purpose of getting his hair trimmed. The Heroine and the Villain are bound together by a marital union (yes, the small-time rowdy is the Villain). The characters are all named after their qualities – there’s a Hero, a Heroine (Ganavi Laxman), a Villain (Pramod Shetty), etc. It tells you whether you should laugh out loud, or move to the edge of your seat and wait for the arrival of something darker and sinister. The quirky and chaotic background music (by Ajaneesh Loknath) nudges you in the right direction. If you smile at the Hero’s (portrayed by Rishab Shetty) antics in one scene, you’ll marvel at the amount of blood spurting out in the next. In this Kannada black comedy Hero, the genre keeps turning on its head every minute.

It’s rather the genre of the movie that holds him back.

But when he finally goes to her house to take revenge, he can’t bring himself to murder her. He’s a hopeless romantic in Indian cinematic terms, he’s a typical Devdas. He drinks about half a bottle of liquor every night before going to sleep. Now, though, he sports a thick beard, a symbol of his degeneration, for he hasn’t felt alive in many years. He replays the beautiful and melancholic moments that he shared with her day after day. He imagines being happy with her in the initial days of the relationship, and then burns his fingers in agony after she leaves him.
