Singaporenalli Raja Kulla

Raja and Kulla in Singapore) is a 1978 Indian Kannada-language action film directed by C. V. Rajendran and produced by Dwarakish.

The film stars Vishnuvardhan and Dwarkish, alongside Manjula, Felina, Lokanath, Uma Shivakumar, Shakti Prasad and Thoogudeepa Srinivas.

[1][2][3][4] Singaporenalli Raja Kulla was the first Kannada film to run over 200 days in the Belgavi region.

[5] A jeweller Shivaraj (Lokanath), who harbours ambitions of a successful life abroad, enters into a partnership with Junie (Thoogudeepa Srinivas) after abandoning his pregnant wife (Uma Shivakumar) and they both land in Singapore.

Unknown to Shivaraj, Junie is into smuggling diamonds and various other illegal activities, and is wanted by the Indian and Singaporean police department.

CID detective Venugopal aka Kulla is assigned the task of hunting down both of them and bringing them to justice in India.

Her father Gopinath Rao (Shakti Prasad), also involved in shady businesses, promises Raja a good life, if he contract kills an old rival of his, Shivaraj, in Singapore, for ₹1,500,000 (US$17,000).

The duo of Rajan–Nagendra composed the film's background score and music for the soundtracks, with lyrics written by Chi.