Pencil (2016)
பென்சில்
Two school students find their classmate murdered in their classroom and decide to track down the killer.
- Date of release
- 2016-05-13
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
- Genres
- Crime, Romance, Thriller
- Director
- Mani Nagaraj
Casting
- G. V. Prakash Kumar — Shiva
- Sri Divya — Maya Srinivasan
- Shariq Hassan — Nithin
- Suja Varunee — Nandini
- Urvashi — Rajeshwari
- Thirumurugan — Sridhar
- VTV Ganesh — Anthony Gonsalves
- T. P. Gajendran — Sudhanthiram
- Abhishek Shankar — Sundarrajan
- Ravi Prakash — School Chairman
- Balaji Venugopal — Arunkumar
- Arunraja Kamaraj — Selvaraj
Interesting facts
Pencil is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language teen thriller film written and directed by debutant Mani Nagaraj. It is based on South Korean film 4th Period Mystery. The film stars G. V. Prakash Kumar and Sri Divya, with the former also composing the film's music. It was released on 13 May 2016, and received mixed reviews.
Production
In October 2013, it was announced that music composer G. V. Prakash Kumar would make his debut as an actor with director Mani Nagaraj's Pencil, a school based thriller film. The team initially approached Priya Anand to be the lead actress, who was unable to accept due to other commitments, and subsequently Sri Divya was recruited. Shariq Hassan, son of actors Riyaz Khan and Uma Riyaz was announced to make his acting debut with a supporting role.
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