Vishnuvardhana (film)

Vishnuvardhana (Sudeep) steals the phone of a local goon Aadishesha (Sonu Sood). He uses it to takes the goon's share of deal money. Adishesha tries to find him. Vishnu fools him every time. He befriends Bharathi (Bhavana Menon) and impresses her father (Dwarakish). Dr. Surya Prakash (Jayaram Karthik) is engaged to her and this makes him angry.

Meera (Priyamani), wife of Aadishesha requests Vishnu to kill her husband. When Vishnu questions her she reveals that he has cheated her. Vishnuvardhan enters Aadhishesha's home. What happens next?

• Sudeep as Vishnuvardhana
• Bhavana as Bharathi
• Priyamani as Meera
• Sonu Sood as Adhishesha
• Dwarakish as Colonel
• Arun Sagar as Nimbehannu aka Shastri
• J. Karthik as Dr. Surya Prakash
• Neenasam Ashwath as Adhishesha's brother
• Karisubbu as Puttayya, Laundry Owner & Vishnuvardhana's father
• Ravi Chethan as Police Inspector
• Muni as District Commissioner of Police
• Taranga vishwa
• Ravi Varma
• Pon Kumaran as Vahaab in Special Appearance
• M. N. Suresh
• Mandeep Rai as Blind Person & Telephone Booth Owner
• Mysore Ramanand as Marriage Broker
• Aarthi as Valli
• Sangeeta as Bharathi's sister

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
IMDb
Times of India

The Bangalore Mirror gave the film a rating of three-and-a-half stars. It also lauded the first-time director P. Kumar and praised the screenplay. It added that the movie had all the ingredients of a commercial success.[3] The Chitraloka website said it was a comedy thriller and lauded the film, saying it had a terrific script which sustains the interest of audience added to these plus-point powerful performances by Sudeep and Priyamani.[4] The Times of India gave four stars and praised the performance of Sudeep

The movie was released in around 140 theatres all over Karnataka.[5] The satellite rights of the film were sold for ₹20 million (US$280,000) to Udaya TV.[6] The distributor, Kumar MN, said that the collection was ₹80 million (US$1.1 million) in one week. The collection made by the movie had crossed ₹150 million (US$2.1 million) before the completion of second week. It was mostly the huge fan following of Vishnuvardhan who had watched the film initially, but was later followed by the Sudeep fans and Vishnuvardhan fans together, pouring in to watch the film repeatedly.[7] Finally the movie was declared a blockbuster hit of the year and collected over ₹360 million (US$5.0 million).

The film was later dubbed into Hindi as Mr. Mobile 2 by Goldmines Telefilms in 2016 with Sudeep's voice dubbed by Amar Babaria.[8]

Since the movie went into production with the title Vishnuvardhana, there was a strong opposition against the usage of the title by some groups. This opposition was led by Dr. Vishnuvardhan's 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.[9][10]

The movie was remade in Bengali as Bachchan starring Jeet, Aindrita Ray, Payel Sarkar, Kanchan Mullick and Mukul Dev in lead role.

V. Harikrishna composed five songs along with the background score for this film. The audio was formally released on 1 December 2011 and on a private radio station, the songs were released on the same day.[11] The lyrics are penned by lyricists such as Nagendra Prasad, Kaviraj and Yogaraj Bhat. Ashwini Media works took up the audio distribution rights for 3.6 million rupees.[12]

59th Filmfare Awards South :-

• Best Director – Kannada – Nominated – P. Kumar[13]

1st South Indian International Movie Awards :-

• Best Debut Director – Kannada – Winner – P. Kumar[14]
• Best Film – Kannada – Nominated – B.S. Dwarakish[15]
• Best Actor (Female) – Kannada – Nominated – Bhavana[15]
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Kannada – Nominated – Arun Sagar[15]
• Best Actor in a Negative Role – Kannada – Nominated – Sonu Sood[15]
• Best Cinematographer – Kannada – Nominated – Rajarathnam[15]
• Best Playback Singer (Female) – Kannada – Nominated – Sowmya Raoh for the song "Yedeyolage Guitaru"[15]

4th Suvarna Film Awards :-

• Best Actor – Winner – Sudeep[16][17]
• Best Choreographer – Winner – Harsha[16]

Sandalwood Star Awards :-

• Best Film – Nominated[18]
• Best Actor – Nominated – Sudeep[19]
• Best Director – Nominated – P. Kumar[20]
• Best Debut Director – Winner – P. Kumar[20]
• Best Comedian – Nominated – Arun Sagar[21]
• Best Actor in a Negative Role – Nominated – Sonu Sood[21]
• Best Screenplay – Nominated – P. Kumar[22]
• Best Supporting Actress – Winner – Priyamani[23]
• Best Dialogue – Nominated – Kalidasa, Srikanth, Ramesh Kamal[24]
• Best Stunt Director – Nominated – Ravi Varma, Ganesh[25]
• Best Choreographer – Winner – Harsha[25]
• Best Art Director – Nominated – Mohan Pandit, Mohan Kere, Anand[26]

Bangalore Times Film Awards :-

• Best Actor – Winner – Sudeep[27]
• Best Film – Nominated[28]
• Best Actor in a Negative Role Male – Nominated – Sonu Sood[28]
• Best Actor in a Negative Role Female – Nominated – Priyamani[28]

1st Kannada International Music Awards (KiMA) :-

• Best Playback Singer (Female) – Nominated – Lakshmi Vijay for the song "Yaarappana Gante Aagli"[29]

• Vishnuvardhana at IMDb
• Vishnuvardhana at AllMovie