Gurunandan’s Kannada film Missing Boy, which was about Hubbali’s missing boy, comes to Zee5

The 2019 film Missing Boy was director Raghu Ram’s project after a five-year hiatus and was one that took him a while in pre-production, given that it was based on a real story and required a lot of research. The film was a retelling of the real-life story of Swedish national Jonathan Frosman, who returns to India in search of his biological parents, with a few cinematic liberties.

The Kannada film had Gurunandan in the lead, as Jonathan, who is adopted by an Indian couple living abroad and taken to a life of luxury in Europe, only to return to India, Hubbali in Karnataka, specifically, to find his birth parents. The film was based on a documentary of the same name, which followed Jonathan’s attempt to find his roots. Rangayana Raghu's played Lavakumar, who is based on the police officer who helped Jonathan in his quest. The film was shot in the actual locations in which the story played out. Since there was no missing person report and no one came looking for him, the police put him in a remand room, from where he was taken to Sharda Sishu Vihar, and subsequently adopted by an Indian couple based abroad. Years later, he returns to India to trance his roots, a quest in which he is helped by a police officer, who helps him piece together his journey from Hubballi to Bengaluru and, eventually, New Zealand.

The film, which released to favourable reviews back in 2019, has now dropped on Zee 5.