The Villain
The Villain is a 2018 Indian action thriller film written and directed by Prem and produced by C. R. Manohar. It stars Shiva Rajkumar, Sudeep and Amy Jackson, while Saranya Ponvannan, Srikanth and Mithun Chakraborty play supporting roles. The score and soundtrack of the film were composed by Arjun Janya. The film was released on 18 October 2018 to generally negative reviews.
The story revolves around Rama now changed his name as Ravana is an international Don. Ramu joins hands with Ravana’s enemies. His aim is to protect Rama and unite him with his mother. He uses Sitha for this purpose. Rama has believed that his mother has died in the road accident. In reality, she is alive and waiting for her son from the past 20 years. How Ramu fulfills his promises and unites the mother and the son forms the crux of the story.
Director Prem announced new film starring Shivaraj Rajkumar and Kichcha Sudeepa. The film is about a villager who dreams to become an actor. The film is produced by C. R. Manohar and they signed Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty in an important role that has been kept as a secret in the beginning, but the news was later leaked to the press.[2] The film was launched by then Karnataka’s Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on 13 December 2015[3][4] and the first look was released in March 2017.[5] Before the release of the first look, the movie was titled as Kali taglined Ruler Warrior. But later was changed as The Villain taglined Ram Ravan due to some reasons. The film completed a schedule and was reported to have portions in England and two other foreign countries to be shot. By then, the film fetched ₹5.4 crore as Hindi rights. Actress Amy Jackson was signed as the female lead.[6][7] The song “Jeeva Hoovagide”[8] from Nee Nanna Gellalare composed by Ilaiyaraaja was shot with Shiva Rajkumar and Amy Jackson in replicated costumes of Rajkumar and Manjula from the original film in a schedule where entire talkie portions were shot, except few songs.[9][10] Later, filming the climax was completed on 1 February as per actor Sudeep’s tweet.[11]
The film opened on a very high note and collected exactly 25.5 crore on day 1 but couldn’t maintain the same momentum and collections fell for 85% on day 2 and 91% on day 3 and the first weekend collection was reported to be around 60 crores .[13]
