Vijayanand is a 2022 Indian Kannada-language

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film directed by Rishika Sharma, produced by Dr. Anand Sankeshwar under the banner of VRL Film productions a unit of VRL Media Pvt Ltd.The film is a based on the life of Indian businessman , Vijay Sankeshwar. The film stars Nihal, Bharat Bopanna,

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, Ravichandran,

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, Siri Prahlad. The music is composed by

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Cast

* Nihal as Vijay Sankeshwar * Bharat Bopanna as Anand Sankeshwar *

as BG Sankeshwar * Ravichandran as Ganesh Dada *

as AJ *

as Chandramma * Siri Prahlad as Lalitha Sankeshwar * Archana Kottige as Vani Sankeshwar

Production

Film was shot at various locations like

Hubli Hubli, officially known as Hubballi, is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. The twin cities Hubli–Dharwad form the second largest city in the state by area and population and the largest city in North Karnataka. Hubli is in Dharwad di ...

Dharwad Dharwad (), also known as Dharwar, is a city located in the north western part of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the headquarters of the Dharwad district of Karnataka and forms a contiguous urban area with the city of Hubballi. It was merge ...

Gadag Gadag-Betageri is a city municipal council in Gadag district in the state of Karnataka, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Gadag District. The original city of Gadag and its sister city Betageri (or ''Betgeri'') have a combined c ...

, Agadi Thota Konnur, RFC

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Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

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, BabaBudangiri,

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.The shooting began on October,2021. The movie's theatrical release is planned in November 2022 in

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and

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languages. Vijayanand movie is the first ever biopic from the Kannada Film Industry dubbed into other south and

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languages. Filming for Vijayanand started on 24 October 2021 in

, with a grand muhurat puja ceremony in the presence of the entire

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press. As of December 2021, the team completed 80% of the shoot. With the schedule being filmed in

. A straight continuous schedule of 75 days was completed. The last leg of shoot was held in Hubli after the song sequences were shot at

, Malpe beach etc. Total number of shoot days being 98 days, The film has more than 66 sets (art sets raised), Total number of artists were 245 with the background artists exceeding 5000.

Music

The film's music is composed by music director

. The music album rights are owned by

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, an Indian music record label company in Karnataka.

Marketing

The first official teaser was released on 2 August 2022. The teaser was released in four languages. It became the most liked teaser and received a massive response with 2crore +

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views in all four languages. The trailer and movie was released in the month of November and December 2022, respectively.

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, id=15373738 2020s Kannada-language films Indian biographical films 2022 films 2020s Indian films VRL Group