At the Centre of the Earth) is a 1983 Indian Kannada-language drama film written and directed by Puttanna Kanagal, starring Srinath, Jai Jagadish, Vijayalakshmi Singh, Chandrashekar, Padma Vasanthi, Rekha Rao and T. N.
Her conditions turn out to be severe — she requires the three friends to stay away from the city, and move to a place of her choice for six months, while specifying that they cannot take more than a hundred rupees each with them.
The three, who assume that they would be given high positions at the workplace, get a rude awakening when they are told that they would have to work as manual laborers would live in makeshift huts like the rest.
Meanwhile, Neela who comes by to gloat before leaving the country to get married, is shocked on seeing that they have changed their ways, and refuse her request of returning to the city.
The next day, while the entire colony has gone to work, Palegar tricks an unsuspecting Belli into believing that he is god having come to restore her sight and makes her sleep with him.
After realizing that they have no place in the colony anymore, the two men decide to leave, but are held back by Parvathi and Belli who have truly come to love them.
Dalavayi, whose wedding has now been fixed to a rich man's daughter, has been talked out of it by Nayak, who successfully attempts in convincing him to take back Roopli.
Palegar goes after a running Belli only to fall under a speeding truck, and dies in Nayak's arms, voicing his last wish of having his eyes transplanted to her.