U Turn (2016)

Original title

ಮಗಳು ಜಾನಕಿ

Directed by

Pawan Kumar

Genre

thriller film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 01m

Rated

R

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An intern journalist and a police inspector team up to investigate a series of motorist deaths that occur when drivers break a traffic rule on a specific flyover in Bangalore. They work to uncover who is responsible for these supernatural events.

mysterioustensesupernaturalsuspensefulintriguingurbangripping

What happens

U Turn is a 2016 Indian Kannada-language supernatural thriller film written, produced and directed by Pawan Kumar. It stars Shraddha Srinath in the lead role. Roger Narayan, Dileep Raj and Radhika Chetan feature in supporting roles. The plot revolves around the death of motorists who break a traffic rule at a particular flyover in Bangalore and subsequent pinning down of the culprit by an intern journalist and police inspector duo. The film received critical acclaim and being remade a lot of times in different languages. U-Turn was first remade in Malayalam in 2017 as Careful. Director Pawan Kumar remade it into a Telugu-Tamil bilingual in 2018 with the same title—thereby making it the fourth Kannada film to be remade in three other South Indian languages after School Master, Sampathige Savaal and Devara Kannu. The movie was remade in Sinhala in 2019 also titled U Turn—thereby becoming the second Kannada movie to be remade in Sinhala after Anuraga Aralithu. The Filipino remake with the same name was released on pay-to-view basis on 30 October 2020. With that, U Turn became the first Indian movie to be remade in Filipino. The Bengali remake titled Flyover was released on 2 April 2021. Ekta Kapoor produced the Hindi remake with the same title which released on 28 April 2023. With that, it became the third Indian movie to be remade in seven languages after Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana and Anuraga Aralithu. It was the seventh Kannada movie to be remade in a foreign language and the second Kannada movie to be remade in two foreign languages after Anuraga Aralithu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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