Vijay Kiragandur is an famous Indian Producer. He was born on 3rd October 1976, in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He is a producer, known for K.G.F: Chapter 1 (2018), Kantara (2022), K.G.F: Chapter 2 (2022) and Yuva (2023). Apart, Vijay also will be a part of the new upcoming Indian movie Kantara: Chapter 1 (2024). Vijay is the founder of Hombale Films, who is an Indian film production company
Vijay Kiragandur and Chaluve Gowda, entrepreneurs from Bangalore. Hombale Films’ first production endeavor was the Kannada film Ninnindale in 2014, starring Puneeth Rajkumar. Their next venture was Masterpiece, starring Yash, in 2015. Their third venture Raajakumara was directed by Santhosh Ananddram and became the top-grossing Kannada film at the time. It reportedly grossed more than Rs. 75 crores at the Karnataka box office and was an industry hit.
Hombale Films’ fourth film was K.G.F: Chapter 1 directed by Prashanth Neel of Ugramm fame. This film was released in five languages across India: Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Hindi. K.G.F: Chapter 1 was very successful at the box office, becoming the first Kannada film to enter the Rs. 200 crore club worldwide, and collected more than 250 crores.
Hombale Films’ next venture was Yuvarathnaa in 2021, which marked their third collaboration with Puneeth Rajkumar, and second collaboration with director Santhosh Ananddram. Yuvarathnaa was released on 1 April 2021 in Kannada and Telugu and was made available on Amazon Prime Video shortly after due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yuvarathnaa marked Hombale Films’ first foray into music production, under the label Hombale Music.
Hombale Films’ next film was K.G.F: Chapter 2 directed by Prashanth Neel, which is the sequel to K.G.F: Chapter 1, which was released in 2018. Yash reprised his lead role from the first film and Hindi actor Sanjay Dutt was the antagonist, marking his debut in Kannada. The film was released on 14 April 2022 in 5 languages with extraordinary reports and collected more than ₹1200 Crore (₹12 Billion) from the worldwide box office. Hombale Films produced Kantara, directed by Rishabh Shetty, on September 30, 2022. It has currently grossed 100 crores in Kannada.