Villain is a 2010 Indian Telugu-language movie starring Vikram, Aishwarya Rai, Prithviraj, Karthik, Prabhu, Priyamani and John Vijay. The movie is inspired from Ramayana by Valmiki. The film follows the crux of the epic Ramayana, with a ruthless police officer on the chase to find a tribal leader and lawbreaker, who has kidnapped his wife. Madras Talkies was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Mani Ratnam and Sharada Trilok. Villain is written by Suhasini and directed by Mani Ratnam. Reliance BIG Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Villain was released on 18th June 2010 and takes a screen time of 134 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Villain was made on a budget of ₹24 crore and it was a super hit at box office gross of ₹73 crore. The screenplay for the movie was written by Mani Ratnam. Cinematography was done by Santosh Sivan and V. Manikandan and editing by Sreekar Prasad. The music was composed by A. R. Rahman.