Thaanaa Serndha Koottam

Thaanaa Serndha Koottam (2018)

தானா சேர்ந்த கூட்டம்

Angered by the corruption that stopped him from becoming a CBI officer, a young man forms a gang who pose as CBI officers and raids the corrupt.

Date of release
2018-01-12
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (43)
Runtime
2h 18m
Genres
Crime, Action, Comedy
Director
Vignesh Shivan

Casting

Interesting facts

Thaanaa Serndha Koottam is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language crime comedy film directed by Vignesh Shivan. The film stars Suriya in the main lead role, alongside Karthik, Ramya Krishnan, Keerthy Suresh, Nandha, Kalaiyarasan, RJ Balaji, and Suresh Chandra Menon. The film's music was composed by Anirudh Ravichander and the cinematography was performed by Dinesh B. Krishnan and edited by A. Sreekar Prasad. It is a remake of the 2013 Hindi film Special 26, which was inspired by the 1987 Opera House heist in Mumbai.

Production

Following the success of the Hindi film Special 26 (2013), its director Neeraj Pandey revealed that he was approached by several filmmakers who were keen on producing a Tamil version of the film. N. Lingusamy subsequently bought the rights of the film and planned to produce the venture in collaboration with Friday Filmworks, who had made the original version, but the project failed to materialise.

After a period of little development, Prashanth revealed to the media in September 2015 that the film's shoot would commence soon after with R. Madhesh as the director of the project. The film failed to materialise over 2016 and it was widely reported in the media that the remake rights of the original film had been transferred from Thiagarajan to Studio Green and the film was to be made as Thaana Serndha Kootam by Vignesh Shivan with Suriya in t…

Vignesh Shivan agreed to work on Thaanaa Serndha Koottam at short notice, after another project, Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal became delayed. Studio Green's K. E. Gnanavel Raja asked Vignesh to do a project to star Suriya and the team chose to use an earlier script planned by Vignesh on the 1987 Opera House heist, like Special 26, where a group posing as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers executed an income tax raid on the jeweller in…

The film was announced to the public in September 2016, with principal photography starting in early November 2016. Keerthy Suresh was signed on as the lead actress, while an ensemble cast of veteran actors including Ramya Krishnan, Suresh Chandra Menon, Senthil and Sudhakar were also a part of the first schedule. Suresh Chandra Menon initially dubbed in his own voice, but it was later replaced with Gautham Vasudev Menon's voice.

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