Hollywood (2002 film)

Hollywood
VCD cover
Directed byDinesh Baboo
Written byUpendra
Produced byRamu
StarringUpendra
Felicity Mason
Ananth Nag
CinematographyPKH Das
Edited byB. S. Kemparaj
Music byGurukiran
Production
company
Ramu Enterprises
Release date
  • 6 December 2002 (2002-12-06)
Running time
136 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada
Budget7 crore

Hollywood is a 2002 Indian Kannada science fiction film written by Upendra and directed by Dinesh Babu. It stars Upendra in a triple role as Surendra, Upendra and US 47 (a robot) along with the Australian actress Felicity Mason as Manisha and Anant Nag. The film was shot entirely in Gold Coast, Australia with few supporting actors and a monkey named Lakshmi, voiced by Ramesh Bhat. The film was also dubbed into Telugu in 2003, retaining the same title.

Upendra became the first Indian actor to portray the role of an android robot in a lead role. The same story of this film that a scientist who creates an android resembling himself to help him win over a girl. But, the android falls in love with the girl and tries to eliminate his creator. The film failed to perform commercially at the box office. The 2010 Tamil movie Enthiran was reported to be thematically similar to this movie. However, the Tamil film was announced in 1999 with stills featuring the lead pair and a Robot released officially. Kamal Haasan and Preity Zinta were announced as the lead in Shankar's Tamil film.