Kurukshetra is an Indian Kannada-language epic historical war film, written by J. K. Bharavi and directed by Naganna. The story is based on the epic poem Gadhayuddha by Ranna, which itself is based on the Indian epic Mahabharata. The story is centred on Duryodhana, the Kaurava king. The film was produced by Munirathna.
The film features an ensemble cast including Darshan, Ambareesh (his final role), V. Ravichandran, P. Ravishankar, Arjun Sarja, Meghana Raj, Sneha, Sonu Sood, Danish Akhtar Saifi, Nikhil Kumar, Haripriya and Shashikumar, portraying characters from Mahabharata. The score and soundtrack for the film is composed by V. Harikrishna whilst it has cinematography by Jayanan Vincent.
The film was released on 9 August 2019 across more than 1000 screens, making it the widest release for any Kannada film alongside the dubbed Telugu version. On 15 August, the Tamil version was released. The Malayalam language version was released on 18 October in Kerala.
Directed by Naganna
Produced by Munirathna
Written by J. K. Bharavi
Story by Munirathna
Starring Darshan, Meghana Raj, V. Ravichandran, Arjun Sarja, Ambareesh, Sonu Sood, Nikhil Kumar
Music by V. Harikrishna
Cinematography Jayanan Vincent
Edited by Jo Ni Harsha
Production KCN Movies, Vrushabhadri Productions & Rockline Productions
Distributed by Rockline Entertainment (Kannada) Geetha Arts (Telugu) V. Creations(Tamil) Global United Media(Malayalam) Dharma Productions(Hindi)
Release date 9 August 2019
Running time 185 minutes
Country India
Language Kannada
