Nimma Vasthugalige Neeve Javaabdaararu out on OTT: Kannada crime anthology now available to stream

The first festival of the year, Sankranti, is generally one that Kannada filmmakers bypass and let big-ticket releases from, say, Tamil and Telugu to enjoy. This year, there were films like Ram Charan’s Game Changer, Nandamuri Balakrishna’s Daaku Maharaj and Venkatesh’s Sankrantiki Vasthunam, among others, with the latter two doing well at the box office. Kannada filmmaker Keshav Moorthy decided to compete with the might of these films when he released his crime anthology Nimma Vasthugalige Neeve Javaabdaararu on January 10, 2025.

Despite positive word-of-mouth, though, Nimma Vasthugalige Neeve Javaabdaararu did not have an easy time in theatres and it took the makers a good 5 months to land a digital streaming deal. The film has finally made it to OTT and is currently available to stream on Sun NXT, and, by extension on OTTplay Premium. Nimma Vasthugalige Neeve Javaabdaararu joins films like Gana, Rakshasa, Vidyapati, Kaalapatthar, among others that dropped on the platform either as primary or secondary streamer.

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Nimma Vasthugalige Neeve Javaabdaararu, an anthology about theft

Nimma Vasthugalige Neeve Javaabdaararu, meanwhile, is an anthology comprising three tales. The first two take up the first half of the film, while the third, gets the entire second half and is the most intense one of them all. The film kicks off with a story about Inaayat (Prasanna Shetty), an abysmal salesman, who supplements his income with the occasional bike theft. Inaayat, who’s got obsessive compulsory disorder, is particular about making away with only a brand of motor vehicle.

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The second and more fluffy story features Madhusudan Govind and Apoorva Bharadwaj, two free-spirited youngsters with kleptomania. These two, steal for fun and not because their lives depended on it. In the third and last segment, Keshav introduces an elaborate honeytrap scheme run by Albert (Dileep Raj) and his associates. His logic is that he’s targeting only scumbags, and, hence, perfectly okay to squeeze them for money, but then, the tables are turned on him.