Spyder

Spyder (2017)

ஸ்பைடர்

A surveillance expert who wants to help people comes across a foe who is the very definition of evil. Can he stop the man before he destroys everything?

Date of release
2017-09-27
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (76)
Runtime
2h 25m
Genres
Action, Thriller, Crime
Director
A. R. Murugadoss

Casting

Interesting facts

Spyder is a 2017 Indian action thriller film written and directed by A. R. Murugadoss and produced by N. V. Prasad. The film was simultaneously shot in Telugu and Tamil languages, and stars Mahesh Babu, S. J. Suryah and Rakul Preet Singh in the lead roles. Murugadoss wrote the Tamil dialogue while the Paruchuri Brothers wrote the Telugu version. The film was edited by A. Sreekar Prasad, with cinematography by Santosh Sivan and music by Harris Jayaraj.

Production

Originally, Mahesh Babu planned to make his direct debut in Tamil, after the dubbed Tamil version of Srimanthudu (2015), titled Selvandhan, received a decent response from audiences. After opening that the script had the potential to be commercially successful in both languages without making many changes, Babu accepted the proposal of a Telugu-Tamil film.

In November 2015, Babu announced his next project would be a Tamil-Telugu bilingual film directed by A. R. Murugadoss. It marks Babu's first direct Tamil debut, as well as Murugadoss' return to the Telugu cinema industry, a decade after his last film Stalin (2006) starring Chiranjeevi.

It was reported that Babu would play the role of a police officer in the film, although other reports claimed that Babu would play the role of a RAW agent. In December 2016 the filmmakers announced the tentative title of the film as Sambhavami, which received a mixed response from fans. On 18 March 2017, the film's title was revealed to be Spyder.

In March 2016, Parineeti Chopra was initially signed to play the lead actress and make her debut in South Indian cinema. However, her unavailability after she was finalised in Takadum, starring Sushant Singh Rajput, meant that the creators approached Rakul Preet Singh for the leading role. S. J.

Twin stunt choreographers Anbariv were eventually roped into the film to choreograph action sequences, although Peter Hein was also roped into the film. R. C. Kamalakannan, who supervised visual effects for Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017), was roped in as part of the technical crew. Kamalakannan claimed that the film has heavy visual effects, and a Russian principal studio was working on the film.

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