Anand is a 1986 Indian Kannada-language film directed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao.

It stars Shiva Rajkumar and Sudha Rani with both making their debuts.

[1] This was Shiva Rajkumar's first of the three consecutive hits at the box-office on debut which gave him the title Hat-trick Hero.

Singeetam was just explaining the scene to us and was telling this is what the work I expect from you people.

[4] Anand alongside Ratha Sapthami (1986) and Manamecchida Hudugi (1987), became commercially successful, earned Shivarajkumar the nickname of Hat-trick Hero, coined by the media and his fans.