Bindaas (transl. Independent) is a Kannada language romantic action comedy film directed by D. Rajendra Babu and Produced by M.Chandrashekar. Puneeth Rajkumar played the male lead while Hansika Motwani played the female lead, marking her Kannada debut and only Kannada film to date. The film was released on 15 February 2008 The film was dubbed in Telugu as Pandugadu , in Hindi as Be Happy Bindaas and in Bhojpuri as Baazi. It was also reported to have been dubbed in Malayalam. The movie was remade in Bhojpuri in 2012 as Hero - the first Kannada movie to be remade in Bhojpuri.