Motta Shiva Ketta Siva (Eng: Bald Shiva is Bad Shiva) is 2017 Indian Tamil-language masala film directed by Sai Ramani, starring Raghava Lawrence and Nikki Galrani in the leading roles. A remake of the 2015 Telugu film Pataas, the film began production in November 2015 and was released on 9 March 2017.
Shiva (Raghava Lawrence)is a corrupt IPS officer who gets himself transferred to Hyderabad and misuses his power to gain monetary benefits in unorthodox methods. During this process, he also encourages a local MP named GK (Ashutosh Rana) who has become a huge headache to Krubakaran (Sathyaraj), the Commissioner of Chennai. Shiva happens to be Kruba’s son who is angry on the latter as his supposed negligence killed his mother (Suganya) and just born sister, though Kruba actually left his wife in the hospital to save several families in a riot. Unaware of this, Shiva left Kruba and joined an orphanage and became an IPS officer to seek revenge on his father. During his life at Chennai, Shiva also meets two women; (Nikki Galrani) journalist working for TV5 and Nithya, a deaf-mute philanthropist who works in a coffee shop. He loves Nikki and expects her to reciprocate the same only to be rejected by her because of his corrupt nature. Nithya is killed by GK’s brother Sanjay [(Vamsi Krishna) when she tries to save a techie from being assaulted sexually by him near HITEC City. Shiva considered Nithya as his sister and her death enrages him and he turns against GK. GK wants to make Sanjay a politician while Shiva challenges GK to save Sanjay from getting arrested. GK manages to kidnap the techie but with the help of a transgender, who also is the primary witness, Shiva arrests Sanjay with a non bailable warrant. He also challenges GK to bring Sanjay out of jail within 3 days. Kruba and Shiva are united and Shiva’s marriage with Nikki is approved. On the third day, GK’s men kidnap the transgender and Nikki. Kruba along with his team go to the spot to save the witness. Shiva is unable to save the transgender as she is killed by the kidnappers, he receives a call from GK, who says that he has kidnapped both Nikki and Kruba and challenges Shiva to save them by bringing his brother to him. Meanwhile, Kruba and his team along with the transgender are killed by GK and his partners. Sanjay and his friends are released from the jail and Shiva plans to kill all of them with the help of an old NRI turned actor “Tsunami star” Subhash (Rajendran). First, Shiva and his team assault one of GK’s partners and his son and throw them on a railway track. They die with a non stop super fast train passing over them. The other partner and his son are intoxicated and their car is made to collide a static truck. Subhash enters the spot in disguise as a taxi driver and presents himself as a witness to that accident citing over drunk being the reason behind those two deaths. GK’s two key henchmen are killed by transgender people and police, with the help of Subhash, make media believe that they were killed in a stampede caused by fans of actress Tamannaah when they came to know that she is inaugurating a mall. Subhash faces the media in disguise as a fan of Tamannaah and reconfirms the same. GK plans to escape to Delhi along with Sanjay to gain his position as an MP again with high security but is trapped by Santhosh, the head of police security who failed to arrest GK in the past in an illegal land acquisition dispute. They reach the same spot where Kruba was killed and after being severely assaulted by Shiva, the duo are made to sit in a car on which petrol is poured. The police shoot the car and the duo die in a blast. Subhash enters the spot as himself who says to the media that he visited this place as a part of location scouting and the duo died in a blast as they were smoking in a “no smoking” area which caused the blast.
Directed by Sai Ramani
Produced by R. B. Choudary
Written by John Mahendran (dialogues)
Screenplay by Sai Ramani
Story by Anil Ravipudi
Based on Pataas (2015)
Starring Raghava Lawrence, Sathyaraj, Nikki Galrani, Ashutosh Rana
Music by Amresh Ganesh
Cinematography Sarvesh Murari
Edited by Praveen K. L.
Production Super Good Films
Distributed by Sivabalan Pictures & Vendhar Movies
Release date 9 March 2017
Running time 152 minutes
Country India
Language Tamil
