Hebbuli

The story begins with Para commando Captain Ram rescuing 3 doctors of their relief camp including Dr. Nandini (who is from Bangalore) from terrorists. Nandini falls in love with him, but does not express it. One night, Ram receives a letter stating that his brother IAS officer Sathyamurthy is dead. He arrives at Bangalore and takes the case himself, which had been dismissed as a suicide. He discusses this with Sathyamurthy's brother-in-law, ACP Prathap. Prathap reveals that Sathyamurthy once punished a corporator for an illegal act. The next day, He was arrested for killing the corporator and is suspended. The next day he was found dead. He tells him to reopen the case since he feels it to be a murder. He gets a clue from his brother's room that someone hanged his brother and finds the culprit to be of height around 6'2" to 6'3" and left-handed.

Ram also asks his brother's wife, Anuradha Sathyamurthy. She describes two incidents which reveals that Sathyamoorthy was arrested for the corporator's murder and was suspended, He also felt shattered about his driver's family's suicide (His driver came to him for help for his daughter's operation as she had cancer. Sathyamurthy decided to help him. But were found dead). The police interrogated all the goons of the characteristics given by Ram, but one is left. Ram goes to his place in order to get him arrested, but he escapes with the help of his henchmen and gets hit by a car.

Later a person named Kabir kills him. In the house, Ram sketches the car driver's picture and his shirt picture. He asks Nandini about him to find him. Nandini finds him in a gym and reaches his hideout, but Ram reach the hideout on time and chase after the person. They reach a building (which is under construction) where Ram confronts him and divulges the truth, but he doesn't divulge and tells him that they are dangerous and influential people and kills himself by falling off the building. But Ram took his mobile phone and after decoding his mobile data with the help of his army personnel, Ram discover who are the real people behind his brother's death.

The culprit is revealed to be minister Arasikere Anjanappa. Ram calls and warns him. Feared, Anjanappa calls his partner Amruth Shah, who is the president of the pharmaceutical association and tells him about Ram. They send Kabir to follow Ram. Ram sees his bike parked and sets a trap. Amruth calls him back.

Ram eventually captures Kabir and reveals the truth at gunpoint. The truth was that Sathyamurthy decided to start generic medicine after he got disturbed by the driver's family's suicide. He discusses it with Anjanappa, but Anjanappa joins Amruth Shah and Kabir to use medicine as a business. Sathyamurthy opposes them. Anjanappa gets Sathyamurthy arrested for false charge of murder and suspended from his job. One night Sathyamurthy calls him, recording the calls for evidence. Kabir secretly barged into Sathyamurthy's house with his henchman at night and asked for the documents of the generic medicine putting his wife and daughter (who are sleeping) at gunpoint, to which Sathyamoorthy adamantly refuses. Kabir finally kills him and stages it as a suicide.

Amruth Shah and Anjanappa torture his brother's wife and reveals Ram will abandon his mission and hand over the evidence to them. They planned to kill him and kidnap his brother's daughter. Ram takes Kabir to them. Anjanappa and Amruth Shah kill Kabir for revealing their secrets and thrashes Ram. Anjanappa then reveals the whole truth of Sathyamurthy's death and he along with Amruth leave him for dead. However, Ram reveals that he recorded the whole incident with a spy camera hidden on his jacket and broadcast it on respective News channels, to secretly reveal their hidden face to the public and also he saves Sathyamoorthy's daughter with the help of his colleagues, Finally, Ram kills them and makes it look like a suicide and reinstate back into the Indian Army.

• Sudeep as Captain Ram
• V. Ravichandran as Sathya Moorthy, an IAS Officer & brother of Ram
• Amala Paul as Dr. Nandini
• Kabir Duhan Singh as Kabeer
• P. Ravi Shankar as Arasikere Anjanappa
• Ravi Kishan as Amruth Shah
• Ravi Kale as Chief Officer Murali Menon
• Kalyani as Anuradha Sathya Moorthy (Satya's wife)
• Avinash as ACP Prathap
• Chikkanna as Sundara (Harish in Hindi version)
• Anil Kumar as the suspect
• Sanjeev Sarovar as a school teacher
• Prachi R. Naik as Ritu (Sathya Moorthy's daughter)

The film opened on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri on 23 February 2017 on 400 screens across the country.[8] On 3 January 2019, the film's Tamil version Poiyattam was successful released.[9] The film was also dubbed and released in Hindi in 2018.

Arjun Janya scored the soundtrack and film score. He composed six songs, including one theme song.[10] The audio was released on 25 December 2016 at Davangere in the presence of the cast and crew. The songs were leaked before Audio Launch. Music label, Zee Music acquired the audio rights making it the firm's first ever Kannada project.[11]

• Hebbuli at IMDb