Ten people are enticed into a reality show shot on an island. Drug peddler Jai meets Sakshi whose photo he has in his purse and both soon fall in love. However, people get killed. The remaining five learn from a judge that they all have committed crimes. Mallika was driving under the influence of alcohol and killed two grandparents. She paid her innocent driver to take the blame. Sandhya is the principal of a school where the master had raped a little girl. But to save her school's reputation, she used a girl to falsely implicate the father who then committed suicide. KP abandoned his girlfriend who became pregnant with his baby, ending up with her losing her sanity. Sakshi had left a rich man's son in a swimming pool knowing that the boy couldn't swim. Mallika, Sandhya and KP get killed. Sakshi and Jai escape from the house. But Jai gets shot. Sakshi hallucinates seeing the child saying 'Aunty come here I am going to swim' and eventually jumps into the sea. Jai however gets saved by the police and finally starts a new life making cotton candies.
Cast
Chiranjeevi Sarja as Mrutyunjay, a drug peddler
Meghana Raj as Sakshi, Supermodel
Parul Yadav as Mallika, an actress
Anu Prabhakar as Sandhya Ramagopal, Principal of Rainbow School
Sadhu Kokila as Sadhu Maharaj, a chef
Achyuth Kumar as Yashwanth, a journalist
Prakash Belawadi as Dr. Chetan Bhagawat
Pavana Gowda as Anu
Balaji Manohar as Kannan Param "KP", a fashion photographer
The movie was accused as a remake of 2011 Tamil movie Aduthathu directed by Thakkali Srinivasan. However, director K. M. Chaitanya cleared the air saying that both the movies were based on Agatha Christie's mystery novel And Then There Were None which was about ten characters stranded on an uninhabited island. He also claimed that while some characters - Meghana Raj, Sadhu Kokila and Prakash Belwadi - were directly based on the characters from the novel, others - Anu Prabhakar, Achyuth Kumar and Parul Yadav - were based on real life incidents. However, questions were raised to similarity between the sudden introduction of the master-mind in the basement of the secret room in both Kannada and Tamil versions in spite of the character being anonymous and not making an appearance in the novel. Similarities were also found in the reality-show backdrop, ten faces of Raavana, the characterisation of the investigating officer and the one traitor among the reality-show participants. It was also argued that instead of ten faces of Raavana, the team could have tweaked it to Dashavathar with metaphoric reference but did not do so as it was straight away taken from the Tamil movie. At this point of time, the team of Aatagara arranged a special screening of the movie for Thakkali Srinivasan in Bangalore. Srinivasan clarified that it is not a remake of his film. He also praised Aatagara of being an extremely well made film. He also revealed that he had made a serial inspired from Agatha Christe's novel And Then There Were None in 1995. Later he made the film Aduthathu inspired by the same. For both these, Kannan Parameshwaran worked on the story. Kannan also wrote the story and co-screenplay for Aatagara inspired by the same novel. Srinivasan also said that anything similar is to the novel and not his film. He also said anyone saying the movie a remake were ignorant and calling this movie a remake would be an absolute joke.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack is composed by Anoop Seelin. Initially Seelin composed a total of 4 songs and the film makers reportedly dropped out a song so as to not affect the film's pace. The team reportedly came up with a riddle song which celebrated the legendary artists of Kannada cinema.
