Ayya (2005 Kannada film)

Ayya
Directed by	Om Prakash Rao
Produced by	Byre Gowda
Story by	Hari
Based on	Saamy (Tamil)
Starring	Darshan Thoogudeep Rakshitha
Music by	V. Ravichandran
Cinematography	Anaji Nagaraj
Edited by	S. Manohar
Production company	Bhavya Cine Creations
Release date	4 February 2005 (2005-02-04)
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Ayya is a 2005 Indian Kannada film directed by Om Prakash Rao, starring Darshan Thoogudeep and Rakshitha. Darshan plays the role of a brave police officer prepared to go to any lengths to control crime in the city. The background music and soundtrack have been scored by V. Ravichandran. The movie is loosely based on the 2003 Tamil movie Saamy.

Plot

The dialogue "Naan convent alli odi police agiddalla. Corporation school alli odi police aagiddu" (Means, "I have not become a police officer by studying in the convent, I am a police officer who studied in corporation school"), became very popular in the whole of Karnataka and could be heard from Darshan's fans for many days. The film has some very exciting scenes, such as the one where the police commissioner describes Ayya as a one-man army, which is more powerful than the nuclear bomb . The film also a scene where he intelligently kills some of the villains showing that Ayya is not only a brave police officer, but also a very, very intelligent and brainy person.

Cast

• Darshan as Ayya
• Rakshita
• Hema Choudhary
• Srinagar Kitty
• Avinash
• Dharma
• Sadhu Kokila
• Shobhraj
• Mandeep Roy

Soundtrack

Ayya
Soundtrack album by V. Ravichandran
Released	2004
Genre	Feature film soundtrack

Track #	Song	Singer(s)	Duration
1	"Kettode Kettode"	L. N. Shastry, Suma Shastry	03:59
2	"Tabla Tabla"	Udit Narayan, Anuradha Sriram	04:52
3	"Simha Gharjane"	Hemanth Kumar	04:46
4	"Surya Jothe"	L. N. Shastry	04:37
5	"Ee Prema"	Udit Narayan, Archana Udupa	04:26
6	"Rakshita Rakshita"	Badri Prasad, Manjula Gururaj	04:00

Box office

The film enjoyed box office success, with many cinemas running it for over 100 days.