Billa II (2012) on Netflix
NR20122h 20mActionCrimeThriller
David Billa, a refugee from Sri Lanka, reaches a camp in Rameswaram and befriends Ranjith. The corrupt inspector Raghubir Sinha terrorizes the refugees, and Billa vows that Raghubir will suffer.
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Plot summary
When civil war breaks out in Sri Lanka, David Billa and other refugees make their way to a camp in Rameswaram, in Tamil Nadu, where he befriends a fellow refugee, Ranjith. A corrupt police inspector, Raghubir Sinha, harasses the camp, and when he tries to detain one of Billa's friends, Billa attacks him. Tortured in a police cell, Billa vows revenge. He travels to Chennai to see his widowed sister, his only living relative, but she turns him away because of his criminal past in Lanka. Billa and Ranjith are then hired to drive a truck of fish from Rameswaram to Chennai, a job Raghubir arranged; the truck carries diamonds, and police move to intercept them.
Cast
- Dinesh Lambaas Praveen Kumar
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Billa II (2012)
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- While filming an action sequence, Ajith Kumar injured his hands smashing a bottle over a stuntman's head and the bottle broke to pieces in his grip, but he completed the shot despite the injuries.
- Anushka Shetty was expected to take the female lead but was never signed; the part went to debutant Huma Qureshi after a nationwide search, until date clashes removed her in September 2011. Miss India World 2008 Parvathy Omanakuttan, spotted by the director at a fashion show, replaced her as Jasmine.
- Heavy snowfall began midway through the filming; the crew carried on shooting and later reshot the complete sequence with the snowy background to maintain continuity.
- In Georgia the crew filmed in the capital Tbilisi and in Borjomi and Rustavi, and Billa II became the first Indian film shot at the Likani Palace, the summer residence of the President of Georgia.
- Billa II was announced as the first Indian production to be filmed with a RED EPIC camera, shot at 5K resolution.
- Vishnuvardhan opted out of the prequel because his dates clashed with his Telugu film Panjaa, and Chakri Toleti, who had directed Unnaipol Oruvan in 2009, was signed by the producers to replace him.
- Billa II was refused an entertainment tax exemption because of its A certificate, and still yielded ₹7 crore, or 10 per cent of the year's total entertainment tax revenue for the exchequer.
