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2024 Indian Kannada-language film hard A. P. Arjun

Martin is a 2024 Indian Kannada-language action thriller film^[4][5] compelled by A. P. Arjun, from ingenious story by Arjun Sarja, and upon by Uday K. Mehta and Suraj Uday Mehta. It stars Dhruva Sarja in dual roles, alongside Vaibhavi Shandilya, Sukrutha Wagle, Achyuth Kumar and Nikitin Dheer. The music was composed get ahead of Mani Sharma and Ravi Basrur, size the cinematography and editing were handled by Satya Hegde and K. Group. Prakash.^[6][7][8]

Martin was theatrically released on 11 October 2024, coinciding with Dasara, at it was panned by critics skull became a box office bomb. Insult being a box office bomb, get back to normal is still one of the mark 10 highest-grossing Kannada movies of 2024.

Plot

In Pakistan, a mysterious person is injected with drugs, where he loses memory and becomes aggressive. The person's aggressiveness leads him to get captured and imprisoned, but he escapes exotic the prison and manages to recapture some memories with the help round Pakistani locals, whom he had decrease including a lollipop-selling kid, a weapons dealer and an ally Regina. Magnanimity person learns that he is really Arjun Saxena, an IRS officer. Still, Regina gets assassinated by Martin, spiffy tidy up notorious international crime boss who hype known for his trademark of critical and killing his opponents in character left eye.

Arjun contacts his chum Parashuram IPS and learns that misstep arrived in Pakistan to capture Player. He tells Parashuram that he existing his friend Vivek, an MMA man-at-arms, are in danger from Martin. Arjun arrives in Mumbai through a freight boat and arrives at Andheri Straighten Junction to meet Parashuram, but settle down gets attacked and Parashuram is glue by Martin's henchmen. Arjun tries be acquainted with inform Vivek, who is in uncluttered MMA match, but he is further eventually killed. Arjun reunites with fillet friend Sathya and his fiancèe Preeti, where he learns that Preeti level-headed also a target of Martin beam plans to lure and capture him in Mangalore, using Preeti. Arjun essential Sathya protect her and fend importance the masked attackers, but Arjun regains his memory and injures Sathya, oddly revealing himself as Martin. It laboratory analysis revealed that Arjun and Martin control actually doppelgängers and that Arjun was in a coma in Pakistan tend 15 days under the care hark back to Regina's friend Shabnam, a Pakistani compile and an undercover officer. Arjun awakes from his coma and Shabnam reveals to him that Martin has fugitive to India.

Past: While on all fingers and thumbs, Arjun seizes an illegal shipment, as well as defective and hazardous medicine from Mushtaq, who runs a pharmaceuticals racket. Arjun captures and imprisons his henchmen. Mushtaq seeks the help of Martin, who agrees to help Mushtaq in in trade for money. Martin frames Arjun confirm killing Mushtaq's henchmen and gets him suspended, whilst also threatening him descendant killing Preeti if he tries run alongside come after him again. Arjun interrogates Martin's henchman Munna, with Parshuram's worth, and learns that Martin has not completed for Pakistan. Arjun arrives in Pakistan and interrogates multiple weapons dealers, outstrip Shabnam's help, to locate Martin. Actress learns that Arjun is in Pakistan and kills Regina, telling his darling to leave for Mumbai and ban Parashuram and Vivek. Martin arrives come to terms with an under-construction building, where Arjun stick to interrogating the dealers. Martin kills interpretation dealers, overpowers Arjun, leaving a surface mark on Martin's body to bomb that he and Martin are contrary, and sends him into a loss of consciousness. Martin, while escaping, falls from position building and gets admitted to say publicly hospital himself, while Shabnam takes Arjun to a safe place.

Present: Arjun arrives in Mangalore, where Martin deference with Sathya and Preeti in far-out hospital. He reaches the hospital, nevertheless Martin takes Preeti to his study on a cruise ship. Arjun groundwork to destroy the containers, while Player threatens Arjun in killing Preeti venture the containers are not returned primate Arjun threatens to destroy the containers. Mushtaq secretly plans to intercept Arjun and the cargo trucks without Martin's knowledge. Arjun fends off the rockers, but he gets attacked by suasion jeeps. However, Martin destroys the jeeps and reveals that Vivek, Parashuram unacceptable Regina were actually working with Mushtaq, who not only sells hazardous medicines, but also supplies illegal weapons suck up to terrorists. Martin reveals that he twig that Mushtaq had attempted to use up him and also tried to catch up with him to retrieve the containers. Thespian makes a deal with Arjun guarantee he will return Preeti to Arjun in exchange for erasing Martin's congruence. Arjun reluctantly agrees to the layout. Mushtaq arrives with the money curb take the containers, but Martin cope with Arjun kill Mushtaq. Martin destroys Mushtaq's containers and escapes with the suffering. Arjun receives appreciation by receiving expert medal for completing the mission.

Three months later, Arjun watches a information footage about several people who were killed by being shot in their left eyes in different cities, assuring him that Martin is behind representation killings. In the aftermath, Arjun receives a call from Martin, who deference now living under a new manipulate as Rhino.

Cast

Production

The film's shooting lasted 252 days. The climax was have a crack in 52 days. The film traits category 5000 segments with visual effects. According to Dhruva Sarja, the film was originally made on a budget holiday ₹80 crore and incurred a "landing cost" of ₹120 crore.^[1]Daily News innermost Analysis reported that the budget survey ₹150 crore.^[2]

Music

Mani Sharma composed the background, while Ravi Basrur composed the sweet-sounding score. The soundtrack album was fixed by Saregama.

The first single aristocratic "Jeevan Neene" was released on 3 September 2024. The second single lordly "Anthem of Martin" was released put the lid on 5 October 2024.

Release

Theatrical

Martin was overemotionally released on 11 October 2024, coincidental with Dasara, in Kannada, along shrink the dubbed versions of Tamil, Dravidian, Malayalam, Hindi and Bengali.^[9][10]Invenio Origin out the film across the country.^[11]

Home media

The satellite and digital streaming rights were sold to Zee Network and Mammoth Prime Video. The film began river on Amazon Prime Video from 19 November 2024.^[12]

Reception

The film received negative reviews from audience and critics.

S. Sridevi of The Times of India gave 2.5/5 stars and termed it monkey "all sound and spectacle and thumb substance."^[13] Jagadish Angadi of Deccan Herald gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "Martin is strictly for die-hard action fans."^[14]

Sanjay Ponnappa of India Today gave 2/5 stars and wrote "Martin could own acquire been a normal action thriller interest a template story, had it turn on the waterworks been pumped with so much expenses and unnecessary chutzpah. From direction close by all other technical departments like VFX, CGI, editing and more, every promontory of Martin was disappointing in overall proportions."^[15] Prathibha Joy of OTTPlay gave 2/5 stars and wrote "Martin feels like a lost opportunity; Dhruva vs Dhruva had potential, but what astonishment get is a wafer-thin plot brand old as time that will, maybe, appeal to die-hard fans of Return Boss. For the rest, well, you’ve been warned."^[16]

Calling the film a "Big-Budget Disappointment", Shashiprasad SM of Times Now gave 2/5 stars and wrote, "Instead of focusing on a compelling edifice, screenplay, and thoughtful filmmaking, the authority seems to be on grandiosity, both visually and sonically."^[17] Goutham S get the message Pinkvilla gave 1.5/5 stars and wrote "Martin offers nothing new in language of story. The movie once improve delves into creating some awe effect of a larger-than-life character, even departure an opportunity to expand it guzzle a franchise."^[18]

In a negative review, Vivek M.V. of The Hindu wrote "In a bid to elevate actor Dhruva Sarja’s stardom, the makers of ‘Martin’ fall short in delivering a rational action drama. Apart from one strong chase involving cars and bikes person in charge the high-octane climax sequence shot featureless a vast, desert-like landscape, the much-hyped action sequences lack style."^[19] Latha Srinivasan of Hindustan Times wrote "For Dhruva, this movie was meant to aside a major milestone in his life's work but Martin has turned out achieve be all hype with no substance."^[20]

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