Dandupalya is a 2012 Indian Kannada-language crime film directed by Srinivas Raju and starring Pooja Gandhi, Ravi Kale, Makarand Deshpande, P. Ravishankar and Raghu Mukherjee.
The rape-murder-theft continues and it brings considerable pressure on him by seniors and frustrates him as the gang often does not leave a single trace of evidence.
The temple's priest recognizes Lord Kartikeya's vel and informs the police that it is not from the Durga shrine.
The squint man, Chander and the inspector go to Lord Kartikeya's temple, which was looted earlier and its two priests murdered.
The squinted man explains how they stole the ornaments without the other gang members noticing, who were busy raping and killing the priests.
He locates the other gang members and with his senior's permission, he takes them to a secluded place for 40 days to get information but they do not speak even after unbearable torture, which included beating Lakshmi naked and clipping off the squint man's whole nails.
Pooja Gandhi was asked to do the female lead in this film as Lakshmi, the leader of the infamous Dandupalya gang.
She agreed to do the role reluctantly, because of potential negative talk in the Kannada film industry regarding such female characters.
[14][15] The Telugu dubbed version was released with 110 prints and completed a successful 100-days run at Guntur and Ongole in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
[16][2] A Tamil dub titled Karimedu was produced by Rama Narayanan's Sri Thenandal Films and released on 24 May 2013.
[18] Shruti I. L. from DNA wrote "miss out on Pooja’s performance or to find out how this notorious gang was caught by the daring police inspector, Chalapathi.
[20] B S Srivani from Deccan Herald wrote "Repeats of the gang’s forays, still portraying the police as mean weaklings and the incoherent courtroom dialogue culminating in an ominous climax — take your pick, but Dandupalya doesn’t rise above ribald jokes on wary neighbours and scheming strangers.
[21] A critic from Bangalore Mirror wrote Dandupalya could have been a gripping crime saga, but it just turns out to be an average tale.
[22] Y. Sunita Chowdhary reviewing the Telugu version for The Hindu wrote "Over all it is a well-made film technically but one would still wonder if the subject though universal still has a title and content pertaining to Karnataka, would interest the people in Andhra Pradesh.
Good effort by Srinivas Raju who succeeds in drawing attention through his first film which is dubbed from Kannada".
[24][25][26][27] The film was criticised by social group Bahujan Samaj Horata Samiti, who claimed that its content was offensive.
[28] "According to the dictionary, nudity means that you are not covered with a single item of clothing from head to toe.
[30][31][4] The film Dandupalya 3 was shot simultaneously with part 2, the second schedule of shooting being held from April 2017.