Rockline Venkatesh


Venkatesh, better known by his stage name Rockline Venkatesh, is an Indian film actor and producer known for his works in Kannada, and Hindi cinemas. He is the founder and owner of the production and distribution company, Rockline Entertainments which has directed over five films as of 2012. In 2015 he co-produced Bajrangi Bhaijaan which earned the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment at the 63rd National Film Awards.

Career

1990–2016

Venkatesh began his career as a stuntman, a villain, supporting roles and produced Kannada television serial initially. He started his production venture in 1996 with co production of Ayudha. He has made films with original stories and also remakes from other languages. He has made films with top super stars of Kannada film industry like Dr. Vishnuvardhan, Ambareesh, Ravichandran, Shivaraj Kumar, Upendra, Sudeep, Puneeth Rajkumar, Darshan, Vijay and others and also made a few small budget films. He has used top film directors like Ravichandran, S.V.Rajendra Singh Babu, D.Rajendra Babu, S. Narayan, KV Raju, Om Prakash Rao, MS Rajashekhar, Sadhu Kokila, Dayal Padmanabhan, Meher Ramesh and others. In 2009, When IDBI started financing Kannada films, Rockline Venkatesh one of the initial producers to welcome the bank to Industry. Rockline Productions has now become a brand name in the Kannada film industry which has produced several blockbusters like Preethse, Preethsodh Thappa, Yaare Neenu Cheluve, Ajay, Mourya, Diggajaru, and Dakota Express.

2010 – present

In 2010, The ongoing buzz was created when it was said superstar Upendra is directing a movie after 10 years, Rockline Venkatesh produced the movie and its said that they spend lakhs of money on photoshoot itself. And in late 2013, after making films like Super, Preethse and Maurya, Venkatesh was very keen to remake Tamil film Soodhu Kavvum in Kannada. Later it was mentioned that Rohit Shetty from Hindi film industry would direct the Hindi version of the film. Recently Venkatesh has been seen working with superstars from various industries, he made his debut as a Telugu film producer with 2014's Power, starring Ravi Teja, Lingaa starring Rajnikanth which released in various languages and in 2015 he associated with Bollywood's superstar Salman Khan for the film Bajrangi Bhaijaan which emerged as a commercial success grossing over ₹6.25 billion worldwide and in the process and became the third highest grossing Indian film after PK and Baahubali.
On New Year's Eve 2015, Killing Veerappan by Ram Gopal Varma was released. Rockline Venkatesh has keyed well in the prominent role as a police officer who becomes one of the victim to the killings of Veerappan.
In mid 2016 Rockline Venkatesh acquired the remake rights of Marathi blockbuster Sairat for four southern languages. Sairat, the critically acclaimed love story is the first Marathi film to gross over ₹100 crore worldwide. Rinku Rajguru, heroine of the Marathi film Sairat will make Sandalwood debut with the Kannada version directed by S Narayan.
In January 2017, Rockline Venkatesh's first Malayalam film was announced. The film having Mohanlal and Manju Warrier in the lead roles was directed by B. Unnikrishnan while Tamil actor Vishal has been cast as the main villain.

Filmography

;Producer
YearTitleCastNotes
1992Belli ModagaluRamesh Aravind, MalashriCo -Producer
Remake of Seetharamaiah Gari Manavaralu
1993Ananda JyothiShiva Rajkumar, SudharaniCo-Producer and Actor
Based on the novel Maangalya Maale by Kakolu Saroja Rao
1994RasikaV. RavichandranProducer and Actor
1995HimapathaVishnuvardhan, Suhasini, JayapradhaProducer
Based on the novel of same name by T. K. Rama Rao
1996AayudhaSaikumarDistributor
1997Agni IPSSaikumar, RanjithaAlso in a supporting role
1997LaaliVishnuvardhan, MohiniProducer
Karnataka State Film Award for Second Best Film
1998Kurubana RaniShivarajkumar, NagmaCo-written by K. V. Vijayendra Prasad
1998Yaare Neenu CheluveV. Ravichandran, SangitaRemake of Kadhal Kottai
1998Preethsod ThappaV. Ravichandran, Shilpa ShettyRemake of Ninne Pelladata
1999Naanu Nanna HendthiruV. Ravichandran, Soundarya, PremaRemake of Thaikulame Thaikulame
2000PreethseShivarajkumar, Upendra, Sonali BendreRemake of Darr
2000Krishna LeeleShivarajkumarRemake of Gokulathil Seethai
2001DiggajaruAmbarish, Vishnuvardhan, SanghaviRemake of Natpukkaga
2001JodiShivarajkumar, JaggeshRemake of Darling Darling
2001UsireV. Ravichandran, Rachana BanerjeeRemake of Bharathi Kannamma
2002Dakota ExpressOm Prakash RaoRemake of Ee Parakkum Thalika
As actor in lead role
2002NagarahavuUpendra, JyothikaRemake of Baazigar
Also in a supporting role
2003Ondagona BaaV. Ravichandran, Shilpa ShettyRemake of Kalisundam Raa
2003DumSilambarasan, RakshitaTamil movie
Remake of Kannada Film Appu
2004MauryaPuneeth Rajkumar, Meera JasmineRemake of Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi
2005VarshaVishnuvardhan, Ramesh AravindRemake of Hitler
2005MajaaVikram, Asin, PasupathyTamil movie
Remake of Thommanum Makkalum
2006AjayPuneeth Rajkumar, Anuradha Mehta, Prakash RajRemake of Okkadu
2006SirivanthaVishnuvardhanRemake of Aa Naluguru
2008BombaatGanesh
2009YodhaDarshanRemake of Bose
2009JungleeDuniya Vijay, Andritha Ray, Rangayana Raghu
2009DevruDuniya VijayProducer and Actor — Remake of Thalai Nagaram which itself was based on Malayalam movie Abhimanyu
2009ManasaareDiganth, Aindrita Ray
2010SuperUpendra, Nayantara, Tulip Joshi
2012Dakota PictureDoddanna, Mukhyamantri ChandruRemake of Malamaal Weekly
As actor in lead role
2013PowerRaviteja, Hansika MotwaniTelugu
Remade in Bengali as Power
2014LingaaRajnikanth, Anushka Shetty, Sonakshi Sinha, Jagapathi BabuTamil Movie
2015Bajrangi BhaijaanSalman Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Nawazuddin SiddiquiHindi movie
Similar to Kallarali Hoovagi
Written by K. V. Vijayendra Prasad
2016Kotigobba 2Sudeep, Nithya Menen
2016Sundaranga JaanaGanesh, Shanvi SrivastavaRemake of Bhale Bhale Magadivoy
2017Manasu MalligeyNishanth, Rinku RajguruRemake of Sairat
2017VillainMohanlal, Vishal Krishna, Manju WarrierMalayalam movie
2018BrihaspathiManoranjan Ravichandran, MishtiRemake of Tamil film Velaiilla Pattadhari
2018Aatagadharaa SivaUday Shankar, DoddannaTelugu film
Remake of Kannada film Rama Rama Re...
2019NatasaarvabhowmaPuneeth Rajkumar, B. Saroja Devi, Rachita Ram, Anupama Parameswaran, P. Ravi Shankar
2019Aadi Lakshmi PuraanaRadhika Pandit, Nirup Bhandari

;Actor