The grand red carpet premiere of Lambodara 2.0—marking producer Anil Shetty’s acting debut, directed by Suni—unfolded in high-octane style. Breaking away from regular film premieres, the evening witnessed a unique confluence of Kannada and Bollywood stars alongside prominent global business tycoons and dignitaries who rolled in to support the team.
Bollywood actor Kunal Kapoor flew into Bengaluru specifically for the special screening. Kunal headlines the film’s major attractions as the antagonist, Raghav Kashyap. Bollywood veteran Sunil Shetty also walked the red carpet to cheer for Anil Shetty and the crew. Adding to the star-studded momentum, Ashwini Puneeth Rajkumar and Pragathi Shetty wife of actor-director Rishab Shetty arrived to back the project.
The show saw a stellar turnout of celebrities including Sriimurali, Nishvika Naidu, Shanvi Srivastava, Meghana Gaonkar, Shubra Aiyappa, Aishwarya Nag, Karthik Mahesh, Kishan Bilagali, anchor Chaitra Vasudevan, and politician-entrepreneur Mohammed Nalapad.
A major talking point of the evening was the presence of elite corporate and global heavyweight figures, including Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji, London-based India Global Forum founder Prof Manoj Ladwa, and Consul General of Israel in Bengaluru, Orly Weitzman, who stepped out to applaud Anil Shetty’s unconventional cinematic leap.
Presented by Mahaveer Jain Films and produced under the Maas Production banner, Lambodara 2.0 plunges into a futuristic social-tech space, exploring how artificial intelligence, algorithms, and digital data dictate modern human emotions and choices. Starring Anil Shetty, Kunal Kapoor, and Sachi Bindra in lead roles—alongside a real humanoid robot named Jia—the bilingual release in Kannada and Hindi has set a fresh benchmark for concept-driven cinema.
