Nagarahavu (2002 film)

Cobra) is a 2002 Indian Kannada-language psychological thriller film starring Upendra and Jyothika, directed by S. Murali Mohan.

Soon afterwards, Ajay's father and his young baby sister die due to illness, unable to buy medicine because of their destitute state.

Meanwhile, the younger daughter Prema Patel (Jyothika, dual role) travels with her father Madan Chopra to Madras (now Chennai), for Ashok's final kart race before he retires permanently.

Ashok has never lost before, but comes across Vicky Despande (Ajay Sharma in a disguise with brown contact lenses).

Vicky allows Ashok to win by slowing at the last corner and tells him that he couldn't beat his "guru".

Vicky then charms Prema by saying that he lost the race as he couldn't break the heart of a beautiful girl.

He makes her sit on the parapet and tells her the truth about himself, after which he throws her to her death from the rooftop of the building.

The letter written by Keerthi implies that she has committed suicide, and the murder investigation is closed.

Prema then asks Arjun (Rockline Venkatesh), who is her former classmate and a current police inspector, for help.

Rajesh, Keerthi's college friend, offers to help her, but is brutally killed by Vicky.

As Vicky forces him to sign a suicide note before hanging him, Arjun thinks that Rajesh must have been in love with Keerthi and hence her murderer.

When she finds out that he was Keerthi's boyfriend back in college, she calls the Sharma household during Vicky's and Prema's engagement party.

Ashok Patel charges in with a group of thugs and shoots Ajay in the shoulder before he is severely beaten and wounded.

Cast and crew of the film, including Upendra, and other celebrities of the Kannada film Industry like Vishnuvardhan, Ambareesh, Shivrajkumar, Puneeth Rajkumar, Devaraj, Ramesh Arvind, Bharathi Vishnuvardhan, Anu Prabhakar, Tara, and many others took part in the match, which was attended by thousands of fans.

A critic from Chitraloka.com wrote that "A gripping story line holds lot of attention in the second half.