India, June 30 -- Mukesh Kumar Singh's Vishnu Manchu-starrer Kannappa has everything going for it. It boasts of a star cast the likes of Prabhas, Akshay Kumar, Mohanlal and Sarathkumar. Beautiful locales of New Zealand passing off for a south India untouched by modernity. And above all, the gut and gumption of Vishnu, who believed Friday would be his.

The issue is that Vishnu had aimed high and made such claims before. Be it with Voter, Mosagallu, or Ginna, the actor aimed to push the bar, but it never really landed. He even admitted recently that 'no Tollywood director' would be willing to work with him on Kannappa, and the failure of his last few films only added to the mistrust.

But boy, did Vishnu prove the naysayers wrong, and how....