India, Dec. 18 -- Kiccha Sudeep says that it has been a while since he's had a menacing and formidable villain in his films. The last time, he reckons, was in Maanikya, more than a decade ago, in which P Ravi Shanakr was the antagonist. Maanikya was the Kannada remake of the Prabhas starrer Mirchi, which Sudeep had adapted and was his last directorial.

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In the time since, Sudeep has, of course, done 7-8 films as leading man, but says that it is only now, with his next release Mark, that he's got a daunting opponent. The Vijay Kartikeyaa directorial, though, has not one or two, but four main villains - Guru Somasundaram, Naveen Chandra, Shine Tom Chacko and V...