Novel Judgement) is a 1983 Indian Kannada-language directed by Shankar Nag, and is a remake of the Hindi-language film Dushmun (1972), written by Virendra Sinha.
[1] It stars Ambareesh as Raja, a reckless truck driver who runs over a farmer, and is sentenced to two years of supporting the deceased's family as punishment for his crime.
After spending a night in a brothel, he rushes to work early next morning, and ends up running over a farmer, Ramu while driving at breakneck-speed through thick fog.
Instead of sending him to prison for the crime, magistrate Gopal Rao resolves to try a novel experiment of forcing him to live with the family of the deceased Ramu, and look after their financial needs for two years.
Ramu's family includes his widow Seetha, crippled father Ramappa and blind mother Shantha, sons Krishna and Seenu, and sister Kamala.
Raja gradually comes to terms with the twist of fate that has forced him to become a farmer for subsistence and live under the ever unforgiving eyes of Ramu's family.
Seetha, who has been working in one of the landlord's mills thinking he is an honourable man, witnesses his misdeeds, and finally realises her mistake.