C.B.I. Shankar

C.B.I. Shankar Kannada ... is a 1989 Indian Kannada language drama film directed by P. Nanjundappa. It stars Shankar Nag in the titular role as Shankar, an officer with the CBI, who investigates a murder case closed down by the local police. The supporting cast features Devaraj, Doddanna, Vajramuni, Suman Ranganathan and Shashikumar. The film was a commercial success and further established Nag as a leading actor in Kannada cinema.

Amar away from home, strikes a business deal with an agency with the help of Radha, who has crush on him. Filming with CBI Shankar, Asha, while performing a scene in the film, falls unconscious on seeing blood stained clothes and backs out of the film. Sathya woos her and convinces her to overturn her decision, and is successful. Amar, on returning home, is furious to find Asha acting and confronts Sathya. He gets the police to the filming location to arrest Sathya on grounds of having forced Asha to act in the film. Sathya then reveals his real identity of Shankar, a CBI officer who, with his team have come down to the town to unearth the murder case of Santosh Shashikumar, having been closed down previously by the local police calling it a suicide.In a series of flashback sequences as narrated by the potential suspects to Shankar as part of the investigation, it is seen that Santosh was a dancer who was given a ticket by a political party to contest at the local Zilla Parishad elections. Foreseeing his win, the opposition political party led by Gowda plan on giving him cash in return for his withdrawal. Reluctant to withdraw, Gowda asks Bullet Bashya Sudheer to deal with Santosh. Bashya tails him and involves him in a fist fight, and shockingly finds Amar stabbing Santosh from behind killing him. Cut to the present, Bashya reveals to Shankar that it was Amar who killed Santosh for the reason that the latter pursued Amars sister. The CBI team proceed to arrest a newlywed Amar only to find him stabbed by Radha, his wife, who reveals that she did so, to avenge her exhusbands murder by Amar, who had murdered him owing to a businessrelated dispute. An unhurt Amar manages to escape, who is pursued by Shankar and hands him over to the police. ........

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