U Turn (2016 film)

U Turn
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPawan Kumar
Written byPawan Kumar
Produced byPawan Kumar
StarringShraddha Srinath
Roger Narayan
Radhika Chetan
Dileep Raj
CinematographyAdvaitha Gurumurthy
Satya Hegde
Siddhartha Nuni
Edited bySuresh Armugam
Music byPoornachandra Tejaswi
Production
company
Pawan Kumar Studios
Distributed byMysore Talkies
Release date
  • 20 May 2016 (2016-05-20)
Running time
121 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada
Budget₹2.5 crore[1]

U Turn is a 2016 Indian Kannada-language supernatural thriller film written, produced and directed by Pawan Kumar. It stars Shraddha Srinath in the lead role. Roger Narayan, Dileep Raj and Radhika Chetan feature in supporting roles. The plot revolves around the death of motorists who break a traffic rule at a particular flyover in Bangalore and subsequent pinning down of the culprit by an intern journalist and police inspector duo. The film received critical acclaim and being remade a lot of times in different languages.

U-Turn was first remade in Malayalam in 2017 as Careful. Director Pawan Kumar remade it into a Telugu-Tamil bilingual in 2018 with the same title - thereby making it the fourth Kannada film to be remade in three other South Indian languages after School Master, Sampathige Savaal and Devara Kannu.[2][3]

The movie was remade in Sinhala in 2019 also titled U Turn - thereby becoming the second Kannada movie to be remade in Sinhala after Anuraga Aralithu.[4]

The Filipino remake with the same name was released on pay-to-view basis on 30 October 2020.[5][6][7] With that, U Turn became the first Indian movie to be remade in Filipino.[8][9]

The Bengali remake titled Flyover was released on 2 April 2021.[10]

Ekta Kapoor produced the Hindi remake with the same title which released on 28 April 2023.[11] With that, it became the third Indian movie to be remade in seven languages after Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana and Anuraga Aralithu.[12][13] It was the seventh Kannada movie to be remade in a foreign language [14] and the second Kannada movie to be remade in two foreign languages after Anuraga Aralithu.[15][16]

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  16. ^ "Kannada Movies: ಪರಭಾಷೆಗಳಿಗೆ ರಿಮೇಕ್ ಆಗಿ ಸೌಂಡು ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿವೆ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಈ ಸಿನಿಮಾಗಳು!". Vijay Karnataka (in Kannada). Archived from the original on 22 April 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2024.