Annavru is a 2003 Indian Kannada-language crime drama film directed by Om Prakash Rao starring Ambareesh and Darshan with Kaniha (credited as Sravanthi), Suhasini and Sumihtra in supporting roles.

[1][2][3] On the day of the Bhogi festival, fourteen-year-old Kalyani gives birth to a boy alone and, fearing societal backlash and incapacity, abandons him inside a moving goods train.

A slum dweller finds the baby, takes him home, names him Surya and raises him.

The child grows up to be intolerant of injustice, especially to the poor, and wonders why his biological mother abandoned him.

Kalyani never told Arjun of the ordeal she faced as a teenager but is constantly grieved by thoughts of her long-lost firstborn.

Later, at a medical camp, Kalyani meets Padma and her daughter, along with the shawl in which she wrapped Surya.

NOTE: In the Tamil movie Thalapathi (1991) by Mani Ratnam: it's Mammootty's character (Devaraj) who dies.

Darshan and Ambareesh were to reprise Rajinikanth's and Mammootty's roles from the original, respectively.

[7] The film was initially titled Dalapati but it was later changed to Annavru to please Ambareesh's fans.

[11] Deccan Herald wrote "After Paartha, director Om Prakash Rao comes up with another action packed thriller, though.it is just a remake of the Tamil super hit film Thalapathi, starring Rajinikanth and Mammooty.

It is packed with fights , love, high statements about loyalty and loads of emotion".