Padai Thalaivan (2025)

Interesting facts

Padai Thalaivan is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language action adventure film directed by U. Anbu, starring Shanmuga Pandian Vijayakanth and Yamini Chander in the lead roles. Vijayakanth in the final acting on using AI Generated in a cameo appearance in this posthumous final film. The film has dialogues and screenplay written by Parthiban Desingu and produced by Jaganathan Paramasivam under his VJ Combines banner. The film also includes a supporting cast of Kasthuri Raja, Munishkanth, M.S. Bhaskar, Karudan Ram, Rishi Rithvik, A. Venkatesh, Yugi Sethu, Sreejith Ravi, Aruldoss and others in supporting roles.

Production

In mid-July 2023, it was reported that Walter (2020) and Rekhla (2022) fame director U. Anbu will be helming Vijayakanth's younger son Shanmuga Pandian's next project tentatively titled Production #1, who was last seen in Madura Veeran (2018). The real-life incident based movie has dialogues and screenplay written by Natpe Thunai (2019) fame Parthiban Desingu.

Yamini Chander, granddaughter of A. C. Tirulokchandar who is known for her roles in Nenjuku Needhi (2022) and Dinosaurs (2023) was cast as the female lead. The film also features, director Kasthuri Raja in an important role alongside, Munishkanth, M.S. Bhaskar, Karudan Ram, Rishi Rithvik, A. Venkatesh, Yugi Sethu, Sreejith Ravi, Aruldoss and others in supporting roles.

Principal photography began after a pooja ceremony on 14 July 2023 in Chennai. In an interview with Cinema Express, Anbu revealed that the first schedule of 20 days got wrapped in Kerala, while the second schedule was then planned to commence by 8 September 2023 in locations like Bangkok and Odisha.

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