Act 1978

Act 1978 is a 2020 Kannada-language social thriller film directed by Manjunatha Somakeshava Reddy (Mansore) and starring Yagna Shetty. This was the first Kannada film to be released in theatres after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Plot

Geetha, a pregnant widow, goes to a government office as part of her long and continuous ordeal to get money already sanctioned by the government, but kept on the backburner by officials of the concerned department. Tired of being asked for bribes, Geetha takes the violent route to get her due. The movie plays out like a game of chess. What seems to be a normal day of bureaucracy and corruption goes awry when she lands up with a bomb strapped to her stomach.

Cast

• Yagna Shetty as Geetha
• B. Suresha as Sharanappa
• Pramod Shetty as ACP Ram Gopal
• Achyuth Kumar as Doreswamy, Home Minister
• H. G. Dattatreya as Advocate General Venkatachalaiah
• Shruti as Kanika Mehta, Chairperson of the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission
• Sudha Belawadi as Chief secretary Sabiha Bhanu
• Avinash as Chief Minister of Karnataka
• Sanchari Vijay as NSG Commando Chief Bheemeshwar Pandey
• Krishna Hebbale as Guruswamy, Branch Manager
• Shobaraj as Sub-inspector Karunakar
• Ashwin Hassan as constable
• Bala Rajwadi as Commissioner of Police Shankar Narayan
• RJ Nethra as Rohini, Central Crime Branch (CCB) officer
• Ravi Bhat as IGP Avinash Manphade
• Raghu Shivamogga as Benjamin
• P. D. Sathish Chandra as Aravinda Nadiger
• Deepa Ravishankar
• Sharanya as Suhasini
• Sathya Ummatthal
• Nanda Kumar as Ashok Dalavayi, Chief Accountant
• Kiran Naik as Govinda, peon
• Naresh Bhat as Lokesh, clerk
• Aravind Kuplikar

Awards and nominations

External links

• at IMDb