மெர்குரி (2018)

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Mercury is a 2018 Indian horror thriller film written and directed by Karthik Subbaraj. The film, which has no dialogue, stars an ensemble cast that includes Prabhu Deva, Sananth, Deepak Paramesh, Shashank Purushotham, Anish Padmanabhan and Indhuja Ravichandran. Karthik presented the film under his own production banner Stone Bench Creations, whilst Jayantilal Gada of Pen Studios co-produced the film. The plot is about five friends who are terrorised by the ghost of a victim of mercury poisoning.

Production

Karthik Subbaraj wanted to develop a full-length, dialogue-less feature film after his earlier short film Black and White, which is largely devoid of dialogue. Before the release of his feature directorial debut Pizza (2012), Karthik, an admirer of the silent films of Charlie Chaplin and the dialogue-less film Pushpaka Vimana (1987), had this desire, but found difficulty conceiving a story concept.

Prabhu Deva called his role in Mercury unique and unusual compared with his previous films, where the script demanded a dance or comedy sequence. The other cast members Sananth, Deepak Paramesh, Indhuja Ravichandran, and Anish Padmanabhan had appeared in Karthik's earlier films. Shashank Purushotham, a Bengaluru-based theatre actor, made his Tamil cinema debut. The actors began rehearsing for their roles 20–25 days before production began.

By early June 2017, the makers had completed shooting 60% of the film, mostly at locations in Chennai, Pondicherry, and Kumbakonam. The film, which was being shot secretly, was only officially announced later that month, after filming had ended. Most of the filming was done indoors, and Tirru chose not to keep the camera steady to avoid "visual fatigue" for audiences.

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