Yajamana (2019 film)

Devi Shetty is an oil trader/businessman, who controls the oil market with the help of his related oil mafia contacts. He asks for coordinates about a village which has not entailed in the oil market. The village is maintained by chieftain Hulikar Nayaka's daughter Kaveri's love interest Krishna, who is the protector of the village's oil mill. One day, Devi Shetty arrives at the village to convince the villagers of entitling its co-operation in his oil marketing. A Journalist Ganga covers the news, broadcasting the same. Krishna opposes and warns the people of Devi Shetty's plan to infiltrate and plunder all the oil resources of the village and that they were bound to lose everything, if they were to pledge co-operation. Krishna also warns Devi Shetty to take anything from Hulidurga, thereby insulting him. The news gets telecast all throughout. Devi Shetty plans to avenge the insults from Krishna by the aid of Krishna's rival Mittai Suri, who decides to deceive the village and its people from him. Devi Shetty's men capture Krishna and try to kill him, but Krishna fights them off and warns Devi Shetty that he will arrive in Mumbai and bring down his oil profits. Krishna arrives in Mumbai and with Ganga's help, where he stays in Ganga's grandfather's house. Krishna with the help of the oil owners, starts to sell oil. However, he faces obstacles where he must even fend off a few men in the market. But eventually consumers start buying his oil brand, acknowledging his oil to be the best. Krishna succeeds in the oil market. Meanwhile, In the village all the people began to lose the market price for their products and started to commit suicide.

Kaveri comes to meet Krishna in Mumbai and reveals about all the incidents to him. Kaveri plans to approach to Devi Shetty asking help for the sake of the village. Krishna joins her and goes to Devi Shetty and pretends to apologise on behalf of his people. Devi Shetty reveals it to the people on video conference. Krishna reveals that when people stopped the oil mill, people will start the oil mill again and they will get back what they were losing. All people recall their oil mill by his words and insults Devi Shetty. Krishna excels in the oil market and later goes to the village to get the marketing rights from the Huliyappa and starts selling oil in the market. He names his brand Nandhi Oil Brand. Devi Shetty befalls a loss in the market. Pulla Reddy, his supporter, comes to Krishna in the name of an ally, to put an end to Devi Shetty. Devi Shetty hatches a vice plan and Krishna gets arrested by police on the grounds of stocking illegal oil. In the court, Krishna proves his innocence saying all of oil stocks are owned by Devi Shetty. Krishna had took some brands unknowingly from Pulla Reddy and draws the brand's name stamp on those where he asks the judge to scratch the brand with a coin which reveals them to be those of Devi Shetty's. He also reveals, much to his happiness that Nandhi Brand is also used at the courtroom's canteen. The Judge sends Devi Shetty's brand for testing at the lab only to find it chemically hazardous.

The court orders Devi Shetty to be taken into custody and also orders to seize his brand in the market and the company suffers from major downfall whereas, Krishna is released from custody after proving his innocence. Devi Shetty targets Krishna and his family, but Krishna sends them away to a safe place. Devi Shetty sends Pulla Reddy to snatch the documents (which contains the illegal oil business orchested by Devi Shetty and Pulla Reddy), but to no avail. Unfortunately Hulikar and Kaveri gets caught by Devi Shetty and Hulikar was given rat poison and dies minutes later, after revealing everything to Krishna. Krishna arrives at Devi Shetty's hideout where he defeats him and during the fight, the place is set ablaze on fire and Devi Shetty is burnt alive and Krishna becomes the main oil trader in Mumbai and starts to produce oil from their village.

• Vajrang Shetty

Yajamana was released on March 1, 2019 across more than 600 Silver screens world wide only in Kannada language. It was released covering more than 495 theatres in Karnataka alone and hit 50+ screens in other states of India on 1 March 2019.[9]

The release date of Yajamana in United States and Canada was postponed to 8 March 2019. It was released across 55 theatres in USA and 3 theatres in Canada by Weekend cinema distributors.[10]

• Yajamana at IMDb