Valmiki 2005

Valmiki is a 2005 Indian Kannada musical, costume drama, action film released on Aug 01, 2005. The film is directed by M.S.Ramesh. 'Valmiki' with leading star Shivaraj Kumar is an old wine in a new bottle. There is nothing new in this movie which tells the same story of a young star whose look alike living in an obscure village is dead. The young man owns up a murder that is not committed by him to save his family prestige. He will be set free by a court after an unknown advocate appears for him in court. Then the hero poses himself as the person who is killed and takes revenge on the bad people who have killed his look alike. There have been hundreds of films made in this genre and this idea has lost its sheen. Big B's "Shehansha" and Rajnikanth's "Basha" have remained as inspirations to several commercial film directors who have taken cue from the story and narrative elements of these two films. But there should be something new in the narration at least. But in the film "Valmiki" what you see is the repetition of many sequences of Kannada and non Kannada films like successful Telugu films like "Samarasimha Reddy', "Narasimha Naidu", "Simhadri" and "Indra". The fact is Shivaraj Kumar's earlier film like "Sriram" was also inspired by Telugu hits like "Samarasimha Reddy" and "Indra". M.S.Ramesh directed "Sriram" earlier once again follows the same trend, but this time he has entirely failed to deliver goods. The fact is that such revenge subjects have to be put to celluloid in a bigger canvass, but in the case of "Valmiki" the making style is poor. Check out this page for more updates on Valmiki.