Kiccha

Kiccha is a 2003 Kannada political drama action film directed by P. A. Arun Prasad featuring Sudeep and Shwetha in the lead roles. It  features background score and soundtrack composed by Hamsalekha and lyrics by Hamsalekha. The film was released on 11 April 2003.

Plot
Krishna Mohan aka Kiccha (Sudeep) is a law graduate who fight against injustice and corruption which is happened around his surroundings. On the occasion of Convocation day, Kiccha abuses the Education Minister Harikrishna (Anandaraj) for not providing education facilities to the children. Kiccha is badly beaten by the police for abusing the minister. Sharada (Sujatha), Kiccha's mother who feels bad about her son for spending time with his friends without any job. Kiccha goes to the interview where he notices that the interviewer is bribed by a candidate. Intolerant Kiccha reacts harshly towards the interview board. But the candidate tells that he has no way to striving for his livelihood instead of job interview. Kiccha refuses to attend the interview because of corruption involved there. One day Kiccha meets a college girl named Suma, who is an orphan. Suma becomes love of his life after their several meetings. Kiccha's friend is arrested by Police for killing a corrupt officer, which makes Kiccha devastated. After knowing the corruption in the society, Kiccha decides to stand as the sole candidate in the election against a politician cum rowdy Jayaraj (Ponnambalam) who is the mayor of the city. Kiccha can't get nominated because Jayaraj and his party members had banned Kiccha from the election. Kiccha goes to Jayaraj's place and thrashes him which leads Jayaraj to cancel his nomination against Kiccha. Kiccha stand as the candidate instead of Jayaraj. Kiccha was stabbed by someone in the festival, but nobody noticed who did this. Kiccha was admitted in the hospital. It is none other than Kiccha who stabbed himself to acquire public support and sympathy from the people. 
       
Kiccha is selected as the Mayor, where he eliminates corruptions in the society. Kiccha marries Suma on his mother's request. When Kiccha sees the death of some illiterate and poor people by eating cyanide which is mixed in their food. He suspects Welfare minister Chandrashekhar who might be involved in this murder. Kiccha takes necessary actions against the Welfare minister for these crimes. But unfortunately, the minister gets killed by mixing cyanide in his drinking tea. Chief Minister (Avinash) wants to see Kiccha. Kiccha is welcomed to the C.M's office. C.M will help Kiccha as he can ask anything from the Chief Minister. Kiccha requests the C.M that he like to work in children's Education portfolio as Education minister. Immediately Kiccha become the Education minister. He bribes money from many Government officials for providing education to the illiterate people and middle-class people from poverty. Kiccha becomes a corrupt politician which makes hatred to his mother, his wife and his friends towards Kiccha. Kiccha tells that he became Education minister to only do corruption. Sharadha and Suma leaves the place and won't come back in Kiccha's life again.

Former Education minister Harikrishna sent some goons to finish Kiccha but he thrashes them and came to meet Harikrishna to bargain with him. If he stands with Kiccha they can make a Government and also Harikrishna will get the opportunity of C.M post by succeeding the present Chief Minister. Kiccha joint hands with Harikrishna .With the help of Kiccha, Harikrishna acquired support from politicians, M.L.A's and other parliamentary members. Kiccha who gave the wicked idea to Harikrishna of gaining the C.M seat, shoots every illegitimate activities done by these politicians. Kiccha shows the video of Harikrishna and other politicians to the Chief Minister and also tells that he is the mastermind behind in this. Kiccha also tells to the C.M that these people are only bothered about money and their post not about their responsibility. Suma gave birth to a baby boy. Kiccha who came eager to see his son is not showned by Suma. She also tells to Kiccha that she will continue as a widow and also nurture her child without Kiccha. Heartbroken Kiccha tries to change the corrupt system with the help of his friends. He donates fund available for the children in orphanage. He also donates fund to illiterate people for their children's education. Kiccha plans and arranges a speech show which consists of Chief minister, Harikrishna, Orphonage Trustee, and other politicians. Harikrishna hired some goons to shoot Kiccha after his speech. Kiccha declared publicly that free education will be provided, free transport service, free health facilities, free job services for unemployed people will be provided. But he states that these will not be happened due to corruption which is already spread over the state. Kiccha also tells that this is a part of the development of the state which becomes misery due to the corrupt politicians. Kiccha already had another plan to become minister to change the corrupt system. He is the one who had killed former Welfare minister Chandrashekar by mixing cyanide in his tea. And he also states publicly that Harikrishna had planned everything to finish Kiccha after the speech. Kiccha gets shot while presenting the speech by his friend. Kiccha had already planned with his friends to kill himself for stopping the entire corrupt system. Kiccha was shoted badly by his friends among the crowd and also make the public believe that Harikrishna's men are behind this. Few minutes before his death Kiccha tells that 'no one should get corrupted'. The crowd attacked the guests including Chief Minister, Harikrishna and other corrupt politicians. Sharadha, Suma forgives Kiccha after knowing his sincerity and cries near Kiccha's body. The entire corrupt system is changed. Individuals in Educational institutions, Government offices and other institutions prays for Kiccha's soul.

Cast

 Sudeep as Krishna Mohan alias Kiccha, a student turned corporate mayor
 Shwetha as Suma
 Sujatha as Sharada, Kiccha's mother
 Ajay Rao as Kiccha's friendjob
 Sadhu Kokila  CD Babu, Kiccha's comedian friend
 Kashi
Anandaraj as Education Minister Harikrishna 
 Avinash as Chief Minister
 Vinayak Joshi as Kiccha's friend
Sathyajith as Welfare minister Chandrashekhar
 Mico Manju as Kumar
 Karibasavaiah 
 Vaijanath Biradar as hostel watchman
 Mandya Ramesh as Umapathi
 M.S. Karanth as Home Minister
 Ravi Srivatsa 
 Bhavyashree Rai 
Ponnambalam as Jayaraj, ex-mayor cum rowdy

Soundtrack
Hamsalekha composed and written the music colloborating with Sudeep for the second time after Sparsha (2000) . The music was released by Akash Audio.

Reception 
A critic from Viggy wrote that "Director P.A. Arun prasad manages to hold grip till the interval where majority of it are student life, unemployment problems, Kiccha playing a good samaritan for the needy, love and corrupt officials".

Awards
Filmfare Awards South :-
 Best Director - Kannada - P.A. Arun Prasad

References

External links
 

2003 films
2000s Kannada-language films
Films scored by Hamsalekha
Indian political films
Films directed by P. A. Arun Prasad