Ek Niranjan

Ek Niranjan (meaning “A Loner”) is a 2009 Telugu action comedy directed by Puri Jagannadh and produced by Adityaram Movies. Prabhas stars with Kangana Ranaut in her Telugu debut, Sonu Sood and Mukul Dev, and Mani Sharma composed the music. Released on 30 October 2009 to mixed reviews, it was a commercial failure, according to News18, though Prabhas was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu.

What the story is about

Chotu makes his living as a bounty hunter, catching gangsters for the police for money. As a child he was kidnapped by Chidambaram, who ran a child-begging racket, and he is still searching for the parents he lost. While hunting a wanted man, Chotu barges into the home of Sameera, a guitar teacher whose brother Manoj works for the gangster Johnny Bhai, arrests the brother after wrecking the house, and falls for her. When Johnny Bhai’s man Kailash, about to be charged with murdering a minister, escapes from police custody, the city commissioner hires Chotu to find him, and the chase leads to Bangkok.

Cast

• Prabhas as Niranjan, “Chotu”
• Kangana Ranaut as Sameera
• Sonu Sood as Johnny Bhai
• Mukul Dev as Kailash
• Makarand Deshpande as Chidambaram, and Ashish Vidyarthi
• Brahmanandam as Guru, Ali as Mantra, Sunil as Chanti Babu and Venu Madhav as Chitti
• Tanikella Bharani as Veeraiah, Posani Krishna Murali as Minister Narendra Kumar and Brahmaji

Making the film

Sify reported the film as a commercial romantic entertainer marking Kangana Ranaut’s entry into Telugu cinema. Shooting began on 31 March 2009 at Lahari resorts in Hyderabad and moved to Bangkok and Pattaya, with two songs filmed in Switzerland; it was completed in September 2009.

Music

Mani Sharma composed six songs. The audio was launched at an elaborate event on 25 September 2009, with Prabhas, Kangana Ranaut, Allu Arjun and Puri Jagannadh presenting the music.

Box office

News18 lists Ek Niranjan among the Prabhas films that failed at the box office before Baahubali; Wikipedia, citing it, gives a distributors’ share of ₹10 crore.

What critics said

Rediff gave it two stars, saying the clichéd plot “falls flat” despite the technical gimmicks, though Prabhas “is effortless as Chotu”. Sify gave three stars, praising Prabhas’s lively performance and Sonu Sood but calling the narration weak and full of illogical threads. Greatandhra rated it two and a half out of five, and Idlebrain.com gave it three stars, calling it “not a bad film” with an entertaining first half and a weaker second.

Where to watch Ek Niranjan

We do not have a confirmed streaming platform for Ek Niranjan on file. The OTT details on this page will be updated when a platform’s own listing confirms it.

Sources: the Wikipedia article on Ek Niranjan and the reviews and reports it cites, linked above; Wikidata; our own cast and crew records.