Prayanikara Gamanakke: A suspense thriller based on a true story that exhorts people to be alert

With a title like

Prayanikara Gamanakke

—the public announcement for travellers at bus and railway stations in Karnataka — this week’s upcoming release is bound to pique the interest of moviegoers. And the subject, says producer Suresh, is even more interesting. “Prayanikara Gamanakke is based on a true story in which a diamond merchant from a neighbouring state was kidnapped along with a bunch of unsuspecting other victims, and murdered. In the incident, the merchant was tailed by the perpetrators as he sold his wares, collected payment and was set to return home. He was to take a long-distance bus from the outskirts of the city. Most operators have smaller buses to ferry passengers from the city to the boarding point and what the perpetrators did was get rid of the actual driver of the smaller bus and replace him with their man. We have taken this bit of the story and given it a fictionalised spin for the film. What happens to the passengers on the bus forms the rest of the story,” explains Suresh about the suspense thriller. The film, directed by newbie Manohar, stars Bharat Sarja, Lokesh and Amitha Ranganath, among others.