Kurigalu Saar Kurigalu (transl. Sheep sir Sheep) is a 2001 Indian Kannada-language comedy film directed and written by Rajendra Singh Babu. The film stars Ramesh Aravind, S. Narayan, Mohan, Bhavana, Ruchita Prasad and Ananth Nag in the lead roles. This is the first film in the Saar series directed by Babu and was released on 23 March 2001 and received generally positive reviews from the critics and turned out to be box-office hit.^[1]

The film won the Karnataka State Film Award for Third Best Film and also Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress to Umashree for the year 2001.^[2][3] The film's title is based on a famous poem on herd mentality written by acclaimed poet K. S. Nissar Ahmed.

Rummi (Ramesh Aravind), Nani (S. Narayan) and Moni (Mohan Shankar) are three inmates who wants to remain in jail permanently as they do not want to witness outside world. A kind hearted inspector (Srinivasa Murthy) gets them released as he finds goodness in them and wants them to lead a good life. All the three get a home thanks to an auto driver (Sundar Raj) with a condition that one of them marries his middle aged elder sister (Umashree) who is unmarried. Umashree falls in love with Nani assuming him to be Lord Krishna. However he escapes from the forced marriage. All the three ends up falling in love with different girls. Due to a mix up they end receiving a bag of money intended for other robbers. All the three witness Srinivasa Murthy's daughter and her lover (Harish Raj) committing suicide and after saving them, they come to know that Srinivasa Murthy is ill and she is forced by her uncle (Doddanna) to marry his immature son (Komal Kumar) to take over her property. In the end, trio with the help of their lovers (two of them being undercover police) and an inspector (Anant Nag) teach them a lesson, gets them arrested and they get married in the end.

The film was launched at Ramanashri California Resort, near Yelahanka in the outskirts of Bangalore and the film's first shot was also shot there on the same day.^[4] Ramani who earlier worked in Telugu films and dialogue writer Nanjunda assisted in penning the screenplay.^[5]

A critic from Chitraloka wrote that "A heavily loaded nonstop silly comedy surrounding the three wayward youths is quite interesting film. Forget the logic and watch this".^[6] Indiainfo wrote "The movie basically suffers from a weak storyline; the story seems to be beyond even the director's control. The first half is funny but in the second half, the story loses shape".^[7]