Ranadheera was the highest-grossing Kannada film of 1988 and Khushbu also gained popularity in Karnataka through this film. Amitabh Bachchan was the chief guest at the event held to mark the film's 25 week run at the box office.[2] The film was dubbed into Tamil as Veeran.[3]
Plot
Ranadheera, the henchmen of a crime boss Basha, kidnaps Radha, the daughter of retired IG Jagannath as Jagannath is the witness to the crimes committed by Basha. Radha earlier assumed that Ranadheera is a police officer, but later learns the truth. Radha and Ranadheera soon fall for each other, where Ranadheera, transformed by true love, surrenders to the police and gets imprisoned for two years.
Radha returns home, where she tells about Ranadheera to her brother Inspector Anand. To prevent Radha from marrying someone else, Anand calls his friend Jimmy to show that Radha and Jimmy love each other. Jimmy misunderstands the situation and falls in love with Radha. Ranadheera gets released from prison, where he starts working in a garage in order to reform himself. Despite this, Jagannath kicks Ranadheera out of his life and decides to get Radha married to Jimmy.
However, Anand finds out that Jimmy is a drug smuggler and informs it to Jagannath, who cancels the marriage. Basha escapes from prison, where he and Jimmy sets out to exact revenge against Jagannath and Ranadheera. They kidnap Radha, Jagannath and Ranadheera's friends and bring them to their ship. Ranadheera and a disguised Anand arrives to rescue them, where Ranadheera finishes Jimmy and Pasha. In the aftermath, Jagannath lets Radha reunite with Ranadheera.
