PIZZA 2 : THE VILLA (2013)

Anecdotes

Pizza II: Villa is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language horror thriller film written and directed by debutant Deepan Chakravarthy. It is the second installment in the Pizza film series. The film stars Ashok Selvan and Sanchita Shetty in lead roles, while Nassar and Vegan Rajesh appear in other pivotal roles The music for the film was composed by Santhosh Narayanan, while cinematography was handled by Deepak Kumar Padhy and Leo John Paul has done the editing. Produced jointly by Thirukumaran Entertainment and Studio Green, Pizza II: Villa is a spiritual successor to Pizza (2012). The filming commenced on 17 April and was completed in May 2013. The film was released on 14 November 2013.

Production

After Pizza became successful, short film director Deepan Chakravarthy came up with the idea of making a sequel. He wrote the script in three weeks and submitted it to Pizza producer C. V. Kumar, who thought of building it up as a franchise. Thirukumaran Entertainment who produced Pizza produce the sequel too. In March 2013, Studio Green secured the film and co-produced it.

Vaibhav Reddy and Sanchita Shetty were cast as the lead pair at first. Later it was said that K. E. Gnanavel Raja of Studio Green, chose to remove Vaibhav and Sanchita from the cast to replace them with bigger names. But Sanchita was retained and only Vaibhav only was replaced by Ashok Selvan, who were both part of the hit film Soodhu Kavvum.

A song sequence, a romantic number at that, called Aayiram Enngal was filmed at Luz Church, Mylapore. Pizza II : Villa was released with Dolby Atmos sound.

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