Chithha

Chithha (2023)

சித்தா

Easwaran, a young government employee gets the shock of his life when his niece Sundari goes missing. After initially wrongly accused of kidnapping her, he eventually comes to know that a child abuser has kidnapped her and he makes it his mission to rescue Sundari.

Date of release
2023-09-28
TMDB
7.7 / 10 (42)
Runtime
2h 19m
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Director
S. U. Arunkumar

Casting

Interesting facts

Chithha is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language crime drama film written and directed by S. U. Arun Kumar. Produced by Siddharth, who stars in the lead role alongside Nimisha Sajayan, and Anjali Nair in addition to Baby Sahasra Shree and Baby S. Aafiyah Tasneem in prominent roles, the film revolves around the relationship between a paternal uncle and his niece which goes through several circumstances after the latter goes missing.

Production

Director S. U. Arun Kumar and actor Siddharth initially planned to collaborate on a film after the former's feature debut Pannaiyarum Padminiyum (2014), which did not materialise. In late 2019, after the release of Sindhubaadh (2019), Arun Kumar developed a story idea for six months and eventually met Siddharth for a potential project.

The idea of the film was derived from Arun Kumar's experiences as he learnt across several incidents of child sexual abuse through newspapers and articles. Based on that, he wrote a novel titled Kolkata Days which was about the 1996 Suryanelli rape case. Those experiences eventually led him to develop the themes and ideas for this film.

Besides acting in the lead role, Siddharth also produced the film under Etaki Entertainment. On 17 April 2022, the project was announced under the tentative title Production No. 4 referring to the company's fourth production venture. The official title Chithha was announced in April 2023. The technical crew includes cinematographer Balaji Subramanyam, previously an assistant of Vijay Kartik Kannan; editor Suresh A. Prasad; and art director C. S.

According to Arun Kumar, "if the casting is right 80 per cent of the work is done". Nimisha Sajayan was Arun Kumar's first choice for the lead actress; she went to Chennai for the story narration and impressed by it, she immediately agreed to be part of the film, as "Be it the character or the film, I felt it is something that has to come out in today's times." It is her Tamil debut.

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