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Tarka is a indian film of genre Thriller directed by Sunil Kumar Desai with Shankar Naag
Tarka (1989)
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Add to a movie listTarka (Kannada: ತರ್ಕ, English: Logic) is a 1989 Indian Kannada language suspense thriller film directed and produced by Sunil Kumar Desai inspired from Agatha Christie's play The Unexpected Guest, and starring Shankar Nag, Devaraj and Vanitha Vasu. The supporting cast features Shivaraj, Avinash, Shashidhar Bhat, Praveen and Sudhakar Pai. The film was unusual for, it had no fight and song sequences, unlike most films during the time.
At the 1988–89 Karnataka State Film Awards, the film won two awards; Best Screenplay (Sunil Kumar Desai) and Best Sound Recording (K. S. Krishnamurthy). The film is considered a landmark in parallel cinema of Karnataka. It was also a commercial success during the time of its release and completed a 100-day run in theatres. It was remade in Tamil in 1990, as Puriyaadha Pudhir.
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The film opens to Akshay (Shankar Nag), having esaped from jail, being chased by the police when accidentally runs into the house of Sudha (Vanitha Vasu), a high school classmate of his. He hides in a closet when Inspector Kaury (Avinash) knocks the door. As he hides, he finds the corpse of her husband, Rithwik Kumar (Devaraj) dumped there. The officer breaks the news to Sudha that the plane by which her husband Kumar travelled to Calcutta crashed, killing all the passengers. She appears shocked and breaks down in front of the officer. After he leaves, she reveals to Akshay that she killed her husband and confides in him. He joins her in disposing the corpse in an abandoned well by her estate.Actors
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