Only Vishnuvardhana

Vishnuvardhana is a 2011 Kannada comedy thriller film starring Sudeep, Bhavana Menon and Priyamani. The film was directed and written by P. Kumar, in his debut, and produced by veteran actor Dwarakish. The film is supposedly a tribute to south super star, Kannada Matinee Idol Dr. Vishnuvardhan who was a friend of Dwarakish. The films music was composed by V. Harikrishna. The film was released onDecember 2011. The film was officially remade as Bachchan 2014 film in Bengali.

The movie got released in around 140 theatres all over Karnataka. The satellite rights of the film was sold for million US300,000 The distributor Kumar MN said that the collection is 60 million US890,000 inweek. The collection made by the movie has crossed 120 million US1.8million before the completion of second week. It is mostly the huge fan following of Vishnuvardhan who have watched the film initially and now it is followed by the Sudeep fans and Vishnuvardhan fans together pouring in to watch the film repeatedly. Finally movie declared blockbuster hit of the year collected over million US2.4million.Ever since the movie went on floors with the title Vishnuvardhana, there was a strong opposition against the usage of the title by some of the groups. This opposition was led by Dr.Vishnuvardhans wife, actress Dr.Bharathi Vishnuvardhan. Dwarakish, along with his associate producer Yogish, struggled hard to fight the accusations. Finally, the title was changed to Veera Vishnuvardhana and was later changed again to Only Vishnuvardhana. ........

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