Roberrt

Raghava lives in Lucknow with his son Arjun and is the head cook in a Brahmin's caterers where he helps his caterer's daughter Amrutha in a catering job and soon falls for him for his honesty. Meanwhile, Balaram Tripathi, an ex-minister vows vengeance on Raghav because of two reasons: Balaram had planned an assassination attempt on ministeral candidate Omkar Shukla after he was humiliated in a wrestling betting, but was saved by Raghava. Tripathi had arranged his son's marriage with the Central minister's daughter for political gain but was ruined by Raghava and Arjun.

Tripathi kidnaps Raghava and tells his henchman to finish him off and Arjun (who was asleep in his home), who is held at gunpoint. Raghava violently finishes all of them and Tripathi. Kishan seeks the help of crime boss Sarkar to kill Raghava and dispatches men to finish him. But Raghava kills them without anyone's knowledge. Sarkar is astonished to see Raghava and reveals that Raghava is actually Roberrt and Arjun is not his son. Meanwhile, Amrutha also confronts Raghava about his past. Few years ago in Mangalore, Roberrt and Raghava are friends/brothers, who actually work for Sarkar's elder brother Nanabhai, who were separated from each other due to jealousy. Roberrt helps Raghava and Thanu express their love for each other to their parents, who declines but later accepts their relationship. They get married and have a son Arjun.

Meanwhile, Roberrt and Raghava discover Nana's son Cherry indulging in Human Traffickling and they kill him despite Nana's requests. While celebrating Arjun's birthday, Nana's gang get attacked by unknown forces and Thanu is killed in crossfire. Depressed about Thanu's death and worried about Arjun's future. Raghava becomes approver to police by divulging Nana's crimes to the police commissioner. Raghava finds that Nana planned the encounter and arrives at Roberrt's den where he believes Roberrt to be behind Nana's plan, the two indulge in a fight. However Nana arrives along with Sarkar, who reveals that it was their plan all along and also divulges that Nana was the main mastermind behind the Human Traffickling and Cherry was following his others. Nana kills Thanu's parents and throws a dead Raghava, Roberrt and an infant Arjun into a ship container where they drown it in the sea. Roberrt and Arjun survives and escape the drowned container. Raghava makes Roberrt to take a vow that him that he will raise Arjun in non-violent manner.

Through Sarkar, Nana arrives in Lucknow where he traps Amrutha's father Vishwanath Bhat in a food poisoning case and also Roberrt in Tripathi's murder case. He calls Roberrt and divulges that they kidnapped Arjun and tells him to finish the matter once and for all. Raghava arrives and finishes Nana, Kishan and Sarkar without Arjun's knowledge where they are killed in Ram Navami event.

Production of the film began with the working title D53.[9] Producers of Hebbuli and Ondalla Eradalla, Umapathy Films, announced that they would collaborate with Darshan[10] under the direction of Tharun Kishore Sudhir,[11] in whose debut movie Chowka (2017), Darshan had made a special appearance as Robert. Principal photography began in June 2019.[12] The first theme poster was released by the production house on 6 November 2018, while the title of the movie was announced as "Roberrt"[13] on 25 December 2018 on Christmas. The second theme poster of the movie was released on 5 June 2019 on the eve of Ramzan festival.[14][15]

Coinciding with the announcement of the title, a theme poster was also released on 25 December 2018. The poster saw Darshan as the incarnation of Hanuman with Rama on his shoulder.[16]

Mehreen Pirzada was initially selected as the heroine of the movie but opted out due to dates issue.[17]

The shooting of the movie had been undergoing confidentially with mobile phones reportedly banned at the shoot locations.[16]

Director Tharun Sudhir had revealed that Darshan would be portraying two different shades in the movie.[18]

The film's songs are composed by Arjun Janya. This marks the fourth collaboration of Janya and Darshan after Chakravarthy, Tarak and Odeya. The rerecording of the movie is by V. Harikrishna.

Kannada

• Roberrt's first song, "Ba Ba Ba Na Ready," was released on 3 March 2020.[20]
• The makers released "Jai Sri Ram" from the movie. The song has two versions, out of which one version has been sung by Shankar Mahadevan, and another was sung by Chorus ft. Divya Kumar.
• The third song, "Dostha Kano," was released on 21 March 2020.
• "Kannu Hodiyaka" was released on 20 February 2021.
• "Baby Dance Floor Ready" was released on 28 February 2021.

Telugu

Roberrt was released on 11 March 2021 along with Telugu dubbed version by the same name, [21] on an eve of Maha Shivaratri in 1200 theatres worldwide. It was originally scheduled for a release in April 2020,[22] The film was delayed for several months due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India.[23]

The film was released on about 1600 screens, including 650 in Karnataka and about 350 in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, 300 in rest of India and 300 in overseas.

It was also dubbed in Hindi under the same title by RKD Studios.

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