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Victory (2008 film)

2008 Telugu film by Ravi. C. Kumar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ7927443 ↗
Source-derived summary

Victory is a 2008 Indian Telugu-language political action drama film directed by Ravi. C. Kumar, released in 2008. Produced by R.R. Venkat under the banner of R.R. Movie Makers, the film stars Nithiin, Mamta Mohandas, Shashank, Sindhu Tolani and Ashutosh Rana. Chakri composed the music for the film, Vijaya Kumar C. handled the cinematography and K.V. Krishna Reddy edited the film.

Plot

Vijji, a vibrant, energetic youngster who is also a very responsible boy. The film throws light on the dreaded land mafia.

Cast

Production

Nithiin developed six packs for the film.

Soundtrack

Music composed by Chakri.

Reception

Radhika Rajamani of Rediff.com rated the film 2 1⁄2 out of 5 stars and wrote that "On the whole, Victory is contemporary and slightly different from the run-of-the-mill fare, which makes it watchable". Krishna KBS of fullhyd.com rated the film three out of ten and wrote that "Unless you are a fan of Nitin and are willing to drool over his well-sculpted body, keep away from this slip-shod flick.".

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Victory (2008 film)” is 2008 Telugu film by Ravi. C. Kumar. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Victory, film and Telugu, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-01-01. For this dossier, Victory, film and Telugu is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “2008 Telugu film by Ravi. C. Kumar” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7927443. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Victory (2008 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.