Rocky: The Revenge

Rocky: The Revenge also simply known as Rocky which was earlier titled as Rocky: The Hero is a 2019 Indian Tamil dog-centric action crime thriller drama film written and directed by popular Bollywood filmmaker K. C. Bokadia on his Tamil directorial debut. The film casts Srikanth in the main lead role as a cop along with two German Shepherd dogs. The film is scheduled to be released on 12 April 2019 as a Summer release alongside another dog oriented concept film Watchman. The film's story is loosely based and inspired from 1985 Bollywood film Teri Meherbaniyan which was also directed by K. C Bokadia himself.

Plot
One of the initial sequences shows two animal smugglers stealing two German shepherds from a house. Thanks to a bump on the road, the door of their vehicle opens and one of the pups falls down. ACP Santhosh (Srikanth) rescues the pup, tends to him and gets him trained (Brahmanandam) so that he – Rocky – could join the police force. Things go fine for the duo until Santhosh crosses swords with local MLA Thenappan (Sayaji Shinde) and his man Friday, Pandi (OAK Sundar). With Santhosh getting murdered, how does Rocky avenge his master’s death? What role does Rocky’s twin have to play in this?

Cast

 * Srikanth as ACP Santhosh
 * two German Shepherd dogs as Rocky
 * Eshanya Maheshwari
 * Nassar as Police commissioner
 * Sayaji Shinde as Thenappan
 * OAK Sundar as Paandi
 * Brahmanandam
 * Karate Raja

Production
The venture was announced by prominent figure in Bollywood industry K. C Bokadia in 2018 who has produced in excess of 50 Hindi films in his career. The portions of the film were shot and set in Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Udaipur and Kulu Manali.

Marketing
The official teaser of the film was unveiled on 8 April 2019 and indicating the film release on 12th April.

Plea
The filmmakers were made aware of a plea at the Madras High Court regarding the change of film title during early April 2019. The plea suggested to not to use the term Rocky in the film title as another completed Tamil film which is on the frontline to have its theatrical release also possess the same name. The filmmakers initially announced the film title as Rocky before commencing principal photography and then after the conclusion of the filmmaking the director renamed the title as Rocky The Hero for temporal reason. However the teaser of the film revealed the title as Rocky The Revenge.