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Puta 109

2018 Kannada-language film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ115805626
Source-derived summary

Puta 109 is a 2018 Indian Kannada-language crime thriller directed by Dayal Padmanabhan and starring Naveen Krishna and Karthik Jayaram.

Synopsis

A police officer (Karthik Jayaram) comes to the residence of a crime novelist (Naveen Krishna) for investigation. The police officer has come to investigate the death of the Novelist's wife who was murdered recently. The Suspect list has everyone from the house maid to a family friend.

The crime novelist patiently answers all the questions but will the police officer get his answer or will it lead to more questions.

What does Puta (Page) 109 have to do with this murder or investigation?

Cast

Naveen Krishna as a novelist

Karthik Jayaram as a cop

Vaishnavi Chandran Menon

Anupama Gowda

Sri CrazyMindzz

Victory Vasu

Production

The film was shot within a week.

Soundtrack

The music is composed by RS Ganesh Narayanan. The title track was rendered by Ranjith and Divya Kupuswamy.

Reception

A critic from The Times of India opined that "Puta 109 is a commendable effort, given how the film tries to tread unexplored territories in the Kannada film industry".

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The public source identifies “Puta 109” as 2018 Kannada-language film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Puta, Kannada-language and film.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Puta, Kannada-language and film providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115805626. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Puta 109” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.