Humble Politician Nograj

Humble Politician Nograj is an Indian Kannada-language comedy film written and directed by Saad Khan. The film stars Danish Sait,^[1] who plays the title character of Nograj, a narcissistic crazy politician who exploits a city and its resources. The film is produced by Pushkara Mallikarjunaiah, Hemanth Rao and Rakshit Shetty under the banner Pushkar Films, Lost & Found Films and Paramvah Studios.^[2]

Plot

Nograj is a corrupt corporator of a fictitious constituency called DS Nagar, whose MLA Jagatprabhu F. Kumar aka JFK treats corporators as his servants. After blackmailing several corporators in JFK's party, they create a parking scam and overthrow JFK. Nograj asks for an election ticket but his party secretary tells him that he needs to rise in popularity. After various antics to get noticed by the party heads, he gets the highly coveted election ticket.

Arun Patil, an honest NRI leading a new company sees his hometown Bangalore in shambles and decides to contest in election. He quickly gains popularity and talks to people sincerely, educating them about the power of their vote, unlike Nograj and his bribes.

Nograj invents gossip that Patil molested women, but Patil's good deeds outshine it. He eventually meets Patil at his house and is charmed by him. After his faithful assistant Monjunath brings him back to reality by helping him realize his true dreams, they create a rumor saying that Patil beat him up, which quickly gains media attention.

Patil's co-workers ask him to release a video of Nograj breaking into the former's office, but Patil decides not to, proving his integrity. At the announcement of results, Nograj wins but tricks Patil into thinking that he will resign and takes back the post.

The plot of this movie resembles the American political satire comedy film The Campaign released in 2012 directed by Jay Roach, written by Shawn Harwell and Chris Henchy.

Cast

• Danish Sait as Humble Politician Nograj,^[3] who strives to become the MLA in the election
• Vijay Chendoor as Monjunath, Nograj's personal assistant
• Sumukhi Suresh as Lavanya, Nograj's wife
• Roger Narayan as Arun Patil, the honest politician who wants to make a change
• Sruthi Hariharan as Rama, Arun Patil's wife
• Vamsidhar Bhogaraju as Pramod, one of Nogaraj's men
• Raghu Ramankoppa as Secretary Gurudas Bhat, a gay politician who helps Nograj
• Hanumanthe Gowda as Jagatprabhu F Kumar Aka JFK, the MLA who tortures Nograj
• Pramod Shetty as Shankar, Arun Patil's personal assistant and colleague
• Shiv Manju as Nanjundaiah, Nograj's party member
• Srinivas Prabhu as Party Vice President Micheal Narayan, who wants become the president at all costs
• Late Akki Basappa as Party President Byrappa
• Mohammed Ashraf as Azam Khan, a Muslim member of Nograj's party
• Roopesh Naik
• Puneeth Rajkumar as Himself, in a cameo role as the chief guest in a function

Production and release

After Danish Sait's popularity playing Nograj in various radio shows and YouTube videos, his long-time producer and friend Saad Khan wrote a film with him based on the same character. They wrote the story in 4 days.^[4] Rakshit Shetty and Hemant Rao soon joined as producers and helped them make the film.

The film was released in Bangalore on 12 January. Sait announced the film would also be released in Australia (3 locations), Germany (4 locations) and USA (Over 50 locations) before Republic Day via Instagram and Twitter.

The film was made available on Amazon Prime Video on 7 February and can now be watched in India online.

References

External links

• Humble Politician Nograj on IMDb