Sakath (pronunciationⓘ) is a 2021 Indian Kannada-language black comedy crime thriller film co-written and directed by Suni, and produced by KVN Productions.

It stars Ganesh, Nishvika Naidu and Surbhi in the lead roles, and tells the story of a blind singer who becomes pivotal to solving a murder case.

Suni and Sheelam Kiran wrote the story of Sakath based on a real-life incident where a supposedly physically challenged dancer participating in a reality television show was found by the organizers to have normal feet.

[1] Judah Sandhy scored music for the film, while Santhosh Rai Pathaje served as the director of photography and Shantu Kumar as editor.

Balu is a youngster who aspires to be singer like S. P. Balasubrahmanyam joins a reality show named A andhre Anthyakshari where he pretends to be a visually impaired man due to his friend Sadhu's advice.

Slowly, Balu starts to fall for Mayuri, However, he intentionally loses to another blind man, whose mother wanted the prize money for his operation.

Life turns topsy-turvy for Balu as he witness a murder of a social activist named Sadashivaraya whose death made it look like a car accident.

Praveen Mahabala, Chalapathi and Raghuram deducing that Balu might be faking his blindness, decide to spy on him which turns out to be true.

[8] Sadhu Kokila, Kuri Prathap, Raghuram, Girish Shivanna and Dharamanna Kadur were reported have been signed to play supporting roles in the film.

"[12] In preparation for their roles, Ganesh and Naidu both studied the body language of visually-challenged singers from videos and documentary films.

I found the Veena player, Mahesh Prasad, on Instagram and even Pancham Jeeva, who has sung three songs in the album, came across via Insta".

OTTPlay, in their report, stated: "The teaser more or less confirmed the suspicions that audiences had about whether Balu is actually visually-challenged, considering that some of the visuals of the song Premakke Kannilla had him glancing at heroine Nishvika."

It added, "Ganesh does and says stuff that has those around him wondering if he can see, only to have him explain his way out of the situation; like, for instance, when he presses the lift button, which does not have braille on it, with ease, and says that it he's been doing it so long, it's become habit.

But the give-away comes towards the end, when Ganesh, as Balu, is shown watching movies that had visually-challenged protagonists, namely Shiva Rajkumar in Kavacha and Ayushmann Khurrana in Andhadhun.

The reviewer for the New Indian Express, A. Sharadhaa, gave the film a three-and-a-half out of five rating and called it "a sincere experiment and effortlessly blends a triangular love story, crime drama, and a situational comedy into a commercial entertainer."

She commended the acting performances on the film and concluded writing, "Despite the long runtime, the whodunit courtroom drama, which is a solid creative work by the writer in Suni, definitely makes for a new and interesting genre for the audience.

Ganesh lives and breathes Balu, making it difficult to imagine any other actor in the role" and that he "delivers his lines with ... "earnestness".

However, unlike leading dailies Udayavani and Vijayavani,[28][29] Prajavani was critical of the film and stated that a serious attempt was not made.