Yuva Rajkumar on Ekka: The look in the teaser is inspired by Jackie, but there’s no other connection
Netizens are convinced that Ekka has a Jackie connect, which Yuva explains is only because of the get-up he has in the teaser. Ekka releases on July 18 and will set the record straight
Last Updated: 05.57 PM, Jul 17, 2025
Ever since Yuva Rajkumar’s second film was announced as Ekka, there’s been widespread speculation that the Rohit Padaki directorial has been inspired by the late Power Star Puneeth Rajkumar’s Jackie. This, says Yuva, probably stems from the fact that Jackie had an Ekka Raja Rani song. For his film, though, the actor explains that Ekka was just an apt title. “Ekka means Ace, which has two perceived values in a pack of cards. Here, it signifies the two shades of the character Muthu and his journey from one to the other,” said Yuva on Stars Express.
But then, when they released a teaser of the character, which was even more reminiscent of Puneeth in Jackie, the speculation about a connect between the two films came back even stronger. “What we’ve shown in the teaser is the character’s madness. To sport such an outfit and put a gun within a broom, there has to be a reason for it. So, when an occasion arose for such a look, we took inspiration from chikkappa’s (Puneeth’s) character in Jackie. Besides this, there is no other connection between the films,” Yuva stated.
Yuva Rajkumar: Ekka is about Muthu's fight to retain his innocence
The film’s premise, he adds, revolves around the basic idea that there’s the innocence of a child and the wild ferociousness of an animal in every human being and follows his struggle to retain innocence, even as circumstances around force him to embrace the animal in him. According to the official synopsis, Muthu makes his way to Bengaluru, in search of a friend, only to get caught up in the dark underbelly of the city. Is there a way out for him?
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Produced by KRG Studios, PRK Productions and Jayanna Films, the film has music by Charanraj, with Sanjana Anand, Sampada Hulivana, Shruthi Krishna, Atul Kulkarni, Poorna Mysore, Adityaa, among others, on the cast.