Veera Madakari (English: Brave Madakari) is a 2009 Kannada action thriller film directed by Sudeep featuring Sudeep, Ragini Dwivedi in the lead roles. The film features background score and soundtrack composed by M. M. Keeravani and Produced by Dinesh Gandhi. The film released on 20 March 2009. This film is remake of Telugu blockbuster Vikramarkudu. The interval fight sequence of this movie was spoofed in the climax of 2015 Kannada movie Ram-Leela.
The story of Veera Madakari revolves around Sathyaraju (Sudeep), a lowly fraudster, who is in love with Neeraja (Ragini Dwivedi). Madakari (Sudeep), an honest police officer who is murdered by the villain, Babjee (Gopinath Bhat) and his son Munna (Arun Sagar). After Madakari's death, Sathyaraju (his look-alike) takes over and does away with the villains in the small village of Devagarh terrorised by Babjee.
Veera (Sanskrit and other Indian languages for "hero") may refer to:
Veera is a Tamil romantic comedy film directed by Suresh Krissna and music by Ilaiyaraaja. It stars Rajinikanth, Meena and Roja in the lead roles. It was a blockbuster and completed 150-day run at the box office.
It is remake of Telugu film Allari Mogudu (1992) starring Mohan Babu, Meena and Ramya Krishna directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. The movie was also dubbed into Telugu.
It was dubbed in Hindi as Double Game - A Romantic Thriller. Govinda starrer Saajan Chale Sasural is official Hindi remake of this movie.
Veera is a 2013 Indian Kannada language action film directed by Ayyappa P. Sharma and starring Malashri, Rahul Dev and Ashish Vidyarthi in the lead roles. Produced by Ramu Enterprises, the film's soundtrack and lyrics are written by Hamsalekha. The supporting cast features C. R. Simha, Komal, Mukul Dev and Raju Talikote. The storyline of the movie is similar to My Wife Is a Gangster.
Veera was announced in December 2009, with Malashri returning after a six-month hiatus, following her previous release, Kannadada Kiran Bedi. It was announced that Veera would be produced by her husband Ramu, under his banner Ramu Enterprises. Reports said filming would begin in the first week of December.
However, the film went under production only in July 2012, following the signing of Ashish Vidyarthi and Komal Kumar to play pivotal roles.C. R. Simha was signed to play a supporting role in the film, who returned to acting after a sabbatical. Sathyadev was cast to play one of the negative leads.