Maanikya | |
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Directed by | Sudeepa |
Written by | Ravi Srivatsa (dialogues) |
Screenplay by | Sudeep Manish malhotra |
Story by | Koratala Siva |
Based on | Mirchi by Koratala Siva |
Produced by | N. M. Kumar Priya Sudeep |
Starring | Sudeepa V. Ravichandran Ranya Rao Varalaxmi Sarathkumar Ramya Krishna P. Ravi Shankar |
Cinematography | Shekhar Chandra |
Edited by | N. M. Vishwa |
Music by | Arjun Janya |
Production companies | MNK Movies Kiccha Creations Kolla Entertainments |
Distributed by | M. N. Kumar |
Release date |
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Running time | 165 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Kannada |
Budget | ₹20 crores [1] |
Box office | ₹35 crores [1] |
Maanikya (transl.The Ruby) is a 2014 Indian Kannada-language action drama film directed by Sudeepa featuring himself, V. Ravichandran, Ranya Rao, Ramya Krishna, Varalaxmi Sharathkumar and P. Ravi Shankar in the lead roles. [2] The film is a remake of 2013 Telugu film Mirchi . It was released on 1 May 2014. [3] Upon its release, Maanikya got an excellent response from the critics and audience, [4] and had a good run at the box office. [5] The satellite rights of the movie was sold for a large amount. [6] The film was later dubbed into Hindi under the same name by RKD Studios in 2015.
The movie begins with a girl collecting funds for an organisation in Singapore. A goon gives her money and then chases her at night when she goes home. Then Vijay (Sudeepa), enters and resolves the conflict without fighting. The girl introduces herself as Manasa (Ranya Rao). They slowly become friends. But one day she asks Vijay to leave her and go as she fears that if their relationship develops any further, separation would be painful. He then goes back to India and influences Manasa's brother to a large extent. In his conservative and ancestral village, Vijay changes everyone's viewpoint and makes them more lovable.
Eventually Manasa expresses her love for him, but Vijay hesitates. It is then revealed that he was born to their rival's family. His father (V. Ravichandran) wanted to change the people of his village. But his mother Lavanya (Ramya Krishna) didn't want to stay there, so she left him. When Vijay goes there, he falls in love with Sindhu (Varalaxmi Sarathkumar).
He starts taking revenge on the Manasa's family without revealing his identity. Then they decide to marry Vijay with Sindhu because they both are in love with each other. During the marriage the Inspector tells his father that the enmity is rekindling because his son is taking revenge on the rivals. Soon afterwards, the rivals come and start killing everyone. After the fight it is known that Vijay's mother dies. His father banishes him and blames her death on him. The story is now back to the present. Manasa's uncle, Beera (P. Ravi Shankar) challenges Vijay that if he can defeat his men then he too would follow non violence. After successfully defeating them, her uncle asks Vijay that if he could defeat the rival's son (not knowing that it was Vijay himself) he would marry Manasa to Vijay.
Vijay gets angry at his stubbornness and reveals his true identity. He starts fighting with Manasa's brother. Then all her family members come and convert him too. This was watched by his father who had just arrived there. His father welcomes him back to the family. The film ends with him reuniting with Sindhu.
After the success of his previous venture, Bachchan , Sudeepa was met with lot of offers from various south film directors. However, he announced in his social network site that he would be teaming up with ace actor – director V. Ravichandran in his next venture. [8] It was reported that Sudeepa would be directing Ravichandran for his next film. Later in July 2013, it was speculated that Ravichandran would be playing father to Sudeepa and the film may be a remake of 2013 Telugu film Mirchi which starred Prabhas and Satyaraj in the son – father roles respectively. [9] It was later confirmed that the story is tweaked and Ravichandran would be playing the father role to Sudeep and Ramya Krishna would be his pair. [10]
Sudeepa profusely thanked veteran Dwarakish for suggesting the title Maanikya. [11]
The filming of the film commenced from August 2013 at a Bangalore city college. [12] Major portions of the film is shot at Bidar(a crown city of karnataka) and Hyderabad. The film unit also flew to Bangkok to film a song sequence and few action sequences. [13]
Maanikya | ||||
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Soundtrack album by | ||||
Released | 29 March 2014 | |||
Recorded | 2014 | |||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Length | 29:06 | |||
Language | Kannada | |||
Label | Anand Audio | |||
Producer | Arjun Janya | |||
Arjun Janya chronology | ||||
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The soundtrack of the film was composed by Arjun Janya collaborating with Sudeepa for the third time after Kempe Gowda (2011) and Varadhanayaka (2013) . The soundtrack was released by Anand Audio on 29 March 2014.
No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Ninna Hinde" | Jayanth Kaikini | Karthik | 04:31 |
2. | "Huchcha Na" | Yograj Bhat | Vijay Prakash | 04:09 |
3. | "Maamu Maamu" | Kaviraj | Vijay Prakash, Priya Himesh | 03:58 |
4. | "Pantara Panta" | Dr. V. Nagendra Prasad | Malathi | 02:02 |
5. | "Jeeva Jeeva" | K. Kalyan | Shankar Mahadevan | 04:55 |
6. | "Jeena Jeena Ya" | Dr. V. Nagendra Prasad | Shaan | 03:50 |
7. | "Nalla Malla" | Dr. V. Nagendra Prasad | Arjun Janya | 02:43 |
8. | "Belake Belake" | Dr. V. Nagendra Prasad | Shankar Mahadevan | 01:11 |
9. | "Mani Mani Maanikya" | Kaviraj | G. Vijay Babu, Shivarudra Naik (kanakapura) | 01:43 |
Total length: | 29:06 |
Maanikya was released in around 250 screens on 1 May 2014. And also released on 15 May 2014 in Sharjah, on 16 May 2014 in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. [14] [15] Maanikya is the first Kannada film released in Oman and Bahrain and released on 30 May 2014. [16] [17] [18] Maanikya also released in United States on 30 May 2014 [19] and in Perth, Australia on 17 August 2014 [20] Maanikya is the first Kannada film screened in Indian Film Festival of Ireland and screened on 20 September 2014 [21]
Maanikya completed 100 days on 8 August 2014. [22]
The film did ₹8.5 crore (US$1.0 million) of business before its release by the (satellite-dubbing-audio-DVD-other) rights. [6]
The satellite rights of the film were sold for ₹5.5 crore (US$660,000) to Asianet Suvarna and Hindi dubbing rights for ₹1.5 crore (US$180,000). Meanwhile, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam dubbing rights for ₹75 lakh (US$90,000) each. [6] The audio rights have been acquired by Anand Audio for ₹25 lakh (US$30,000) and the DVD rights have gone for a similar amount. The remaining rights too have been secured for ₹25 lakh (US$30,000). [6]
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