Tagaru

Goat) is a 2018 Indian Kannada-language action crime film co-written & directed by Duniya Soori and produced by K. P. Srikanth under Venus Entertainers.

The film stars Shiva Rajkumar, alongside Dhananjaya, Bhavana, Manvitha Kamath, Vasishta N. Simha and Devaraj.

[9][10][11] A major chunk of the narrative device was reported to be the main source of inspiration for the template of the tweaked script of the 2021 Telugu film Krack.

The suicide is linked to a notorious gangster Daali and his brother Cockroach; he also investigates a teenager's death, which is orchestrated by Uncle's aide Baby Krishna.

Shiva meets Panchami through an alliance sent by his superior officer ACP Ramachandra, and they begin to spend time with each other and decide to get married.

[18] After finalizing Shiva Rajkumar to play the lead role, producer K. P. Srikanth, a former associate of Kanakapura Srinivas, took up the project to finance.

[22] Outside Karnataka, the film released in Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Sangli, Dudhani, Miraj, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Goa and Kasargod.

Tagaru was reported to have emerged as the biggest ever Kannada film in the opening weekend outside Karnataka by grossing ₹10 crore (US$1.2 million) in 3 days.

A. Sharadhaa of The New Indian Express gave 4/5 stars and wrote "Tagaru manages to fall into the classics category, with intense characters, brilliant screenplay, creative cinematography and promising music including the background score playing with the stunts scenes.

"[25] Mayur Javali of Filmibeat gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote "Duniya Soori has come up with his typical genre of blood, crime and riveting dialogues.

"[27] Deccan Herald gave 3/5 stars and wrote "A glorious celebration of machismo and underworld gangsta warfare, Tagaru splashes the screen with gut-wrenching gore and bloodshed.

This idiom of cinematic narration, ensures novelty and niftyness, certain surefootedness providing Tagaru with the zip and style to be engrossed in it.