Nalla (2004)

Nalla is a 2004 Kannada romantic action drama directed by V. Nagendra Prasad, with Sudeep in the lead and Sangeetha as the heroine. Sudeep plays a young man whose love story is entangled with violence and the dark side of the city, and the film moves between tender romance and hard-hitting confrontations as he fights to protect the woman he loves. Made in the early phase of Sudeep's stardom, after Huccha and Kiccha, it offers his familiar brooding intensity along with songs and family drama. Its Hindi dub has circulated as Aur Ek Diljala.