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Vennela Kishore filmography
Vennela Kishore (Bokkala Kishore Kumar, born 1980, Kamareddy) is a Telugu comedy actor named after his 2005 debut film Vennela; over 130 films, directed Vennela 1 1/2 and Jaffa, Nandi and SIIMA Best Comedian winner.
Vennikulam Gopala Kurup
Vennikulam Gopala Kurup (1902–1980) was an Indian poet, playwright, translator, and lexicographer who wrote in Malayalam. His Kamasurabhi won the Sahitya Akademi's 1974 award for Malayalam poetry.
Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu (வெண்ணிலா கபடிகுழு)
Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu (வெண்ணிலா கபடிகுழு, White Moon Kabaddi Team) is a 2009 Tamil sports drama directed by Suseenthiran, starring debutant Vishnu Vishal, Kishore, and Saranya Mohan, about a losing village kabaddi team; remade in Telugu and Hindi, with a 2019 sequel.
Venom (2005 film)
Venom (2005) is an American voodoo slasher horror film directed by Jim Gillespie, starring Agnes Bruckner and D.J. Cotrona; shot as Backwater, it grossed $881,745 domestically against a $25 million budget and holds 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Venom (2018 film)
Venom (2018) is a Sony/Columbia superhero film directed by Ruben Fleischer, starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, host of an alien symbiote. It grossed $856.1M worldwide despite 31% Rotten Tomatoes, spawning two sequels.
Venom (band)
Venom, English heavy metal band formed 1978 in Newcastle (also dated 1979), classic trio Cronos, Mantas, Abaddon; 1982 album Black Metal named the black metal genre; sixteenth album Into Oblivion released 2026 before Cronos's death.
Venom (character)
Venom: Marvel Comics alien symbiote bonded to Eddie Brock, first fully appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #300 (1988) after the 1984 Secret Wars black suit; weak to fire and sound, later an anti-hero and lead of Sony's near-$2 billion film trilogy.
Venom (Sony's Spider-Man Universe)
Venom is a superhero film trilogy in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, comprising films released in 2018, 2021, and 2024, all starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, host to an alien symbiote.
Venom & Shishiliza (group)
Venom & Shishiliza are a South African production duo, DJ Venom and Sebastian "Shishiliza" Jameson, known for the 2022 multi-platinum single "Sondela" and album LOVE IS PAIN.
Venom Inc.
Venom Inc. is a Newcastle upon Tyne heavy metal band formed in 2015 by former Venom members Mantas, Demolition Man Dolan, and Abaddon, distinct from Cronos's Venom; albums Avé (2017) and There's Only Black (2022).
Venom War
Venom War is Marvel Comics' 2024 symbiote crossover event by Al Ewing and Iban Coello: a five-issue series, August to November 2024, in which Eddie Brock and his son Dylan fight over the Venom symbiote, ending the Ewing run and launching All-New Venom.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Venom: Let There Be Carnage, also known as Venom 2, is a 2021 American superhero film in which Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock faces the serial killer Cletus Kasady, host of the symbiote Carnage.
Venpa
Venpa (வெண்பா) is a classical Tamil metrical form for short, strictly ruled verse used for moral instruction; the Tirukkural is composed in its two-line kural venpa form.
Venti (Genshin Impact)
Venti (温迪) is the 5-star Anemo bow bard of Genshin Impact, secretly the Anemo Archon Barbatos of Mondstadt and the game's first limited 5-star. Known for crowd-control burst, Viridescent Venerer support, and later Hexerei DPS buffs.
Ventriloquism
Ventriloquism, from Latin venter and loqui (belly-speaking), is the art of making one's voice appear to come from a dummy or other source; its perceptual basis is the ventriloquism effect, visual capture of sound location, studied since Eurykles of Athens to Edgar Bergen and modern labs.
Vents
Vents is a long French poem by Saint-John Perse, pen name of Alexis Léger, written in Maine in 1945 and published by Gallimard in 1946.
Ventura García Calderón
Ventura García Calderón (1886–1959) was a Peruvian novelist, short-story writer, and diplomat who spent most of his life in Paris; his most emblematic work is La venganza del cóndor (1924).
Ventura Highway
Ventura Highway is a 1972 folk rock song by Dewey Bunnell of America, from the album Homecoming; it reached number 8, was inspired by a 1963 Ventura highway sign, and was later sampled by Janet Jackson.
Ventura López
Ventura López, in full Ventura Fernández López (1866–1944), was a Spanish priest, journalist, archaeologist, and cervantist who settled in Toledo, where his eccentricity made him famous as el Cura Loco.
Venu Thottempudi
Venu Thottempudi (వేణు తొట్టెంపూడి), born 1976, is a Telugu film actor whose hits include Swayamvaram, Chirunavvutho, and Hanuman Junction; he won a Nandi Special Jury Award for his debut and returned in Ramarao on Duty (2022).
Venus (Shocking Blue song)
Venus (Shocking Blue song), 1969 hit written by Robbie van Leeuwen and sung by Mariska Veres; first Dutch No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (February 7, 1970), based on The Banjo Song, later covered by Bananarama.
Venus (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Venus de Milo (Mei Pieh Chi; IDW comic version Bonnie) is the first female Ninja Turtle, introduced in Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation (1997) and reintroduced in IDW's TMNT #127 (2022) as a Punk Frog rebuilt by Dr. Barlow.
Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare, first printed in London in 1593, telling of Venus's unrequited pursuit of the huntsman Adonis.
Venus and Mars (Wings album)
Venus and Mars is the fourth studio album by Wings, released in May 1975. It reached Number 1 in both the UK and US and sold over 4 million copies.
Venus Butterfly
Venus Butterfly is a shared name covering a Thai all-girl rock band (debut album 2009, Baybeats 2004), a sexual-technique term popularized by L.A. Law, a 1947 Salvador Dalí painting, and various artworks and trademarks.
Venus Callipyge
Venus Callipyge, also called Aphrodite Kallipygos or the Callipygian Venus, is an Ancient Roman marble statue, thought to copy a lost Greek original, in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
Venus de Milo
Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Melos): Hellenistic Parian marble statue of Aphrodite, 204 cm, dated 150–125 BC, attributed to Alexandros of Antioch; found on Melos in 1820, in the Louvre since 1821, famous for its missing arms.
Venus de' Medici
The Venus de' Medici is a 153 cm Hellenistic marble statue of Aphrodite in the pudica pose, displayed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence since 1680.
Venus in Fur (film)
Venus in Fur (La Vénus à la fourrure) is Roman Polanski's 2013 French-Polish film adapting David Ives's play and Sacher-Masoch's 1870 novella, starring Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric in a two-hander audition drama, in Competition at Cannes 2013.
Venus in Furs
Venus in Furs (Venus im Pelz) is an 1870 novella by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch depicting Severin's submission to Wanda; it inspired Krafft-Ebing's 1886 term masochism, Deleuze's essays, Ives's 2010 Broadway play, Polanski's 2013 film, and the Velvet Underground song.