Kannada film Manjunatha BA LLB is watchable, writes Srikanth Srinivasa
Manjunathan BA LLB starring Jaggesh and directed by S Mohan seems like a continuation of the actor's earlier film
Eddelu Manjunatha.
Jaggesh plays a drunk lawyer in this film while in the former, he played a good-for-nothing husband.
Manjunatha is a remake of the Malayalam film
Hello that had Mohanlal in the lead.
Manjunatha (Jaggesh) is a brilliant lawyer who is on a self-destructive mission as he drowns himself in alcohol. His follower and sidekick Basheer (Tabala Nani) rescues him whenever he gets involved in a brawl.
To find out why Manjunatha hits the bottle so hard, the film rewinds to his past when he is in love with a girl. Her father doesn't approve of him and locks him up in a room to prevent him from meeting her.
The girl is killed while waiting for him alone so that they could elope.
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The young lawyer is devastated and turns to alcohol.