Record box office collection was reported across Karnataka and the movie completed 100 days in more than 61 theaters.

In the opening scene, a dreaded underworld don is brutally hacked to death by unknown assailants.

The police arrive at the crime scene and arrest the unknown assailant revealed as the superstar hero of the movie.

The murder is revealed to be the handiwork of a novice, Madesha alias Jogi who works in a roadside tea stall.

Madesha originally hailed from a village called Singanallur near the Male Mahadeshwara Temple and lived with his parents.

His father (Ramesh Bhat) earned his living as a Jogi - a wandering minstrel, who went from one household to another and collected alms in return for singing, but is too ill to continue leaving Madesha to work instead.

Niveditha meets Jogi and tells her his story: In a flashback, it is told after arriving in the city, he tries to find work in a tea stall.

Losing faith in finding her son, Bhagyakka meets Madesha's childhood friend, who had met him once in the city.

At the time, however, Jogi and his gang are going to kill a rival group which murdered one of their associates who left a widowed wife and son behind.

In October 2004, Arundathi Nag was signed in to play the mother of Shiva Rajkumar's character in the film.

In preparation for the role of a person belonging to the jogi community, she took to Male Mahadeshwara Hills to study their way of living.

[14] Jogi generated tremendous hype, partly due to Shivrajkumar's peculiar hairdo, the music, and the success of director Prem's previous ventures (Kariya and Excuse Me).

[16] Indiainfo wrote "Backed with fabulous music by Gurukiran and some wonderful picturisation of songs, Jogi gives exactly what the masses wants - complete entertainment!

[18] In January 2006, Business Standard reported that the film was expected to collect a lifetime gross of ₹14 crore.

[3] Jogi was remade in Tamil as Parattai Engira Azhagu Sundaram,[19] and in Telugu (with Malayalam dub) as Yogi.