Roberrt

Raghava lives in Lucknow with his son Arjun and is the head cook in a Brahmin's caterers where he helps his caterers daughter Amrutha in a catering job and soon falls for him for his honesty. Meanwhile Balaram Tripathi, an ex-minister vows revenge on Raghav because of two reasons: Balaram had planned an assassination attempt on ministeral candidate Omkar Shukla but was saved by Raghava. Tripathi had arranged marriage for his son Kishan with the Central minister's daughter for political gain but was ruined by Raghava and Arjun.

Tripathi brings Raghava and tells his henchman to finish him off, but Raghava violently kills all of them and Tripathi. Kishan seeks the help of crime boss Sarkar to kill Raghava and dispatches men to finish him. But Raghava kills them and Sarkar is astonished to see Raghava and reveals that Raghava is actually Roberrt and Arjun is not his son. Meanwhile, Amrutha also confronts Raghava about his past. Few years ago in Mangalore, Roberrt and Raghava are friends who actually work for Sarkar's elder brother Nanabhai who had fallen out from each other. Roberrt helps Raghava and Thanu express their love for each other to their parents who declines, but later accepts Raghava and Thanu's relationship, and soon get married and have a son Arjun.

Meanwhile, Roberrt and Raghava discover Nana's son Cherry indulging in Human Traffickling and they kill him despite Nana's request. While celebrating Arjun's birthday Nana's gang get attacked by unknown forces and Thanu is murdered. Raghava becomes approver to police by divulging Nana's crimes. Raghava finds that Nana planned the encounter and arrives at Roberrt's den where he believes Roberrt to be behind Nana's plan, the two indulge in a fight. However Nana kills Thanu's parents and throws a dead Raghava, and Roberrt and an infant Arjun into a container where they drown it. but Roberrt and Arjun survived and escape the drowned container. But Raghava makes Roberrt promise that he will raise Arjun in non-violent manner.

Through Sarkar, Nana finds that he and Arjun are alive and traps Vishwanath Bhat, the catering owner in a food poisoning case and also Roberrt in Tripathi's murder case and calls Roberrt and tells him to finish the matter and reveals that they kidnapped Arjun. Raghava arrives and thrashes Nana, Kishan and Sarkar without Arjun's knowledge and are killed in RamNavami event.

Production of the film began with the working title D53.[7] Producers of Hebbuli and Ondalla Eradalla, Umapathy Films, announced that they would collaborate with Darshan[8] under the direction of Tharun Kishore Sudhir,[9] in whose debut movie Chowka (2017), Darshan had made a special appearance as Robert. Principal photography began in June 2019.[10] The first theme poster was released by the production house on 6 November 2018, while the title of the movie was announced as "Roberrt"[11] on 25 December 2018 on Christmas. The second theme poster of the movie was released on 5 June 2019 on the eve of Ramzan festival.[12][13]

Coinciding with the announcement of the title, a theme poster was also released on 25 December 2018. The poster saw Darshan as the incarnation of Hanuman with Rama on his shoulder.[14]

Mehreen Pirzada was initially selected as the heroine of the movie but opted out due to dates issue.[15]

The shooting of the movie had been undergoing confidentially with mobile phones reportedly banned at the shoot locations.[14]

Director Tharun Sudhir had revealed that Darshan would be portraying two different shades in the movie.[16]

The film's songs are composed by Arjun Janya. This marks the fourth collaboration of Janya and Darshan after Chakravarthy, Tarak and Odeya. The rerecording of the movie is by V. Harikrishna.

Kannada

• Roberrt's first song, "Ba Ba Ba Na Ready," was released on 3 March 2020.[18]
• The makers released "Jai Sri Ram" from the movie. The song has two versions, out of which one version has been sung by Shankar Mahadevan, and another was sung by Chorus ft. Divya Kumar.
• The third song, "Dostha Kano," was released on 21 March 2020.
• "Kannu Hodiyaka" was released on 20 February 2021.
• "Baby Dance Floor Ready" was released on 28 February 2021.

Telugu

Roberrt was released on 11 March 2021 along with Telugu version by the same name [19],on a eve of Maha Shivaratri in 1200 theatres worldwide. It was originally scheduled for a release on April 2020,[20] The film was delayed for several months due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India.[21]

The film was released on about 1600 screens, including 650 in Karnataka and about 350 in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, 300 in rest of India and 300 in overseas.

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