along with Sudha and are being brought to jail by a police vehicle. The film ends with the Akshay tackling the cops out and escaping again. Cast Shankar Nag as Akshay / Harish Vanitha Vasu as Sudha Devaraj as Ritwik Kumar Shivaraj Avinash as Inspector Cowry Shashidhar Bhat as Shashidhar Praveen Nayak Sudhakar Pai Kumar Krishna M. S. L. Murthy Nagendra Srikanth Sampath Kumar Vijayaranjini in a cameo appearance as Smitha Uday in a cameo appearance Production After dropping out of college at the age of 20 Desai went to Bengaluru to enter the film industry. To enter the industry he joined Adarsh Film Institute however, he dropped out as the Institute did not offer a course in film direction. He next searched for someone to work with. His friend, Shivaraj introduced him to director Kashinath. His background in architecture helped Desai and soon he found himself designing the posters and the title for Anubhava. Next, Desai worked with Suresh Heblikar for Aganthuka. Since, Heblikar himself was starring in the film Desai became the second-unit director. He then, decided to write a script for his directorial debut. In an interview with Bangalore Mirror he said, "I wanted to make a thriller. I had watched all of B. R. Chopra’s thrillers including Gumrah, Kanoon and Ittefaq... I loved his films and started writing the story of Tarka ." After completing the script Desai tried to get funding for the project, but in vain. The major reason of the rejection was due to the parallel cinema tone to the script's subject matter, but finally his close friend Praveen agreed to produce the film. Then, Desai approached Shankar Nag, who was popular as the Karate King at the time through a friend. Desai approached Nag as he had earlier starred in other offbeat films like Minchina Ota (1980) and Accident (1985). Nag asked Desai to narrate the story of Takra in five minutes, which he did and Nag came onboard. Nag was given an advance of ₹10,000 and was paid ₹50,000 in total. About the film's filming Desai would say, "The shoot would stop every time the money was exhausted and resume when he got a little money. “The sporadic flow of funds caused Tarka to take almost a year-and-a-half to be completed, with dubbing, re-recording and editing." Reception The film was critically acclaimed and ran for many weeks in many theatres. It