The Villain (2018 film)

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.

• Shiva Rajkumar as Ramu
• Sudeep as Rama (Kaizer-Ram) aka Raavana
• Meka Srikanth as Kaizer
• Amy Jackson as Sita (Voice by Rakshitha)
• Mithun Chakraborty as ACP Brahmavar (cameo appearance)
• Tilak Shekar as Alex
• Saranya Ponvannan as Vishalavva, Ram's mother
• Sharath Lohitashwa as Ram's Father
• Prathap
• Mandya Ramesh
• Rachita Ram as herself in the song "Bolo Bolo Ramappa"
• Shash as a Spy
• Shanvi Srivastava as herself in the song "Bolo Bolo Ramappa"
• Radhika Narayan as herself in the song "Bolo Bolo Ramappa"
• Samyukta Hornad as herself in the song "Bolo Bolo Ramappa"
• Shraddha Srinath as herself in the song "Bolo Bolo Ramappa"
• Bhavana Rao as herself in the song "Bolo Bolo Ramappa"

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]

Arjun Janya was signed to compose music and background score for the movie.[12]

• The Villain at IMDb

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