Vijayanand OTT release date: When and where to watch VRL-founder Vijay Sankeshwar’s biopic

Biopics are quite the rarity in Kannada cinema, so when one was announced on the life of a prominent transport and media baron, it piqued interest. A film on Vijay Sankeshwar, the self-made entrepreneur who started his transport business with one truck and developed it into a fleet of thousands, catering to goods and human transport. Sankeshwar later tried his hand at publishing too, launching the Kannada newspaper Vijay Karnataka, which went on to become a market leader, and an English daily too, both of which he eventually sold.

It should have been an interesting subject, but the film turned out to be a vanity project for the producers, what with Sankeshwar and his son Anand backing it. Directed by Rishika Sharma, the film had Nihal Rajput as a young Sankeshwar, with Anant Nag, V Ravichandran, Prakash Belawadi, Shine Shetty, Bharath Bopanna, among others also on the cast. Released in theatres in December 2022, the film was, for the longest, rumoured to be headed to Amazon Prime Video, but till date there was no sign of it.

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Vijayanand headed to Namma Flix

It has now emerged that the film will be on another platform. Namma Flix, the Kannada OTT, has bagged the streaming rights of Vijayanand, and will make the film available from February 14, 2025. Written by Rishika, based on hours of interviews with Sankeshwar, the film was a vehicle meant to glorify the latter as a legend and that his business has been built on a foundation of honesty.

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The team had claimed that the intention of the film was to inspire people, but the narrative lacked that tone. In an interview with OTTplay, Rishika had been asked if it would be possible to be objective and present a truthful account of the life of the business tycoon, to which she said it would possible. The end result, though, does not really reflect that.