Power (stylised as Power***) is a 2014 Indian masala film directed by K. Madesh and features Puneeth Rajkumar and Trisha Krishnan in lead roles, alongside Prabhu, Kelly Dorjee, Rangayana Raghu and Sadhu Kokila in supporting roles.
[3][4][5] The story revolves around Bharath Kumar (Puneeth), a police officer who’s pursuing underworld don Naik (Kelly), who operates from Spain and Mumbai.
Naik and his henchmen had tried to kill Bharath’s father Krishna Prasad (Prabhu), an honest MLA and a staunch follower of late actor Rajkumar.
Circumstances force Bharath to act as an MLA, a reality show director and a cop, three roles which he portrays with finesse.
He is on a mission to apprehend mafia don Nayak, who is involved in illegal drug trade, extortion and arms trafficking.
Prasanthi is the daughter of Bharath's higher officer, a cop who reports to the police commissioner in Bangalore city.
When Bharath's dad comes out of the coma, doctors advise his family that Krishna is at risk if he encounters or hears anything upsetting, disturbing or shocking.
In the guise of a reality television program, Bharath tricks an aspiring but unsuccessful film actor P. Vibhushan, by making him believe that the television show is being sponsored by film star V. Ravichandran, and that Ravichandran wants to offer P. Vibhushan a very handsome remuneration for his realistic performance in the show.
Bharath also tricks Gouda with a real estate business deal, to exploit his criminal nexus.
[7] Tamil actress Trisha made her debut into Sandalwood by starring opposite Puneeth Rajkumar.
The launch took place at the Bellary Municipal grounds with the presence of Telugu actor Mahesh Babu.
Sify stated "With a star-cast this huge and a good technical crew a neat screenplay is expected and this is where the director could have worked on.
The film made more than Rs 8 crore in the first week and expectedly the Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli regions and multiplexes contributed nearly 90 per cent of the revenues.