DNK trailer: Mouli plans a jewellery heist to clear his debts in Mythri’s comedy; film opens on 13 November

The DNK trailer is out, and it shows where the teaser’s money-mad hero ends up: planning a robbery. Mythri Movie Makers put the 2-minute-16-second video on its YouTube channel on the night of Monday, 9 November, four days before the film, billed in full as Donga Naa Koduku, reaches theatres on Friday, 13 November. It had passed 25 lakh views by the early hours of Wednesday, 11 November.

The trailer begins in the dark. A torch beam moves through a house at night, and a police officer smokes in front of a board crowded with pinned notes. Then the comedy takes over. A man in a cardigan and muffler and a woman covering half her face slip in through a doorway, and two mock award laurels flash on screen, one for a “Gajuwaka Film Festival” and another naming Maddilapalem, both localities of Visakhapatnam.

Mouli Tanuj Prashanth plays Eeshwar. Ali and Rajitha are the parents who scold him at home, and Ali stands beside him in a jewellery showroom before a jeweller draped in gold chains. Sushmitha Shetty plays his girlfriend, and Raghu Babu is also in the cast. Other shots show Eeshwar and a friend in black suits, Mouli sprinting down a lane with a duffel bag, and the two in monkey caps inside a van at night.

The synopsis on the film’s ticket-booking page supplies the outline. Eeshwar wants money fast, ends up owing more than he can repay and decides to rob a jewellery shop. The job misfires, and it is his family that pays for it.

Little Hearts crew behind the camera

DNK is Mouli’s next film after Little Hearts, the romantic comedy directed by Sai Marthand that came out on 5 September 2025, a little over 14 months ago. Three technicians from that film return, the trailer’s credits show: cinematographer Suriya Balaji, editor Sreedhar Sompally and composer Sinjith Yerramilli. The director is new. Sreenu Kambala, who also wrote the film, is directing for the first time. Y. Ravi Shankar and Naveen Yerneni produce; Anil Yerneni is the co-producer. The cast listed with the trailer also names Priya, Babloo, Nanda Gopal, Bhadram, Gundu Sudarshan and Ramana Bhargava.

At 136 seconds, the trailer is almost twice the length of the 72-second teaser of 21 October. Its closing card shortens the title to DNK, repeats the 13 November date and carries the logos of Netflix and Think Music. It gives no streaming date. The same Friday also brings Itllu Arjuna, the love story presented by Nagarjuna, and the re-release of his 1989 film Geethanjali.