பஞ்சதந்திரம் (2002)

Curiosità

Panchatanthiram is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language black comedy film co-written and directed by K. S. Ravikumar. The story is written by Kamal Haasan with the dialogues by Crazy Mohan. The film stars Haasan, Jayaram, Ramesh Aravind, Sriman, Yugi Sethu, Simran and Ramya Krishnan, with Urvashi, Aishwarya, Sanghavi, Vidhya Venkatesh, Devayani and Nagesh in supporting roles. It loosely adapts from the 1998 film Very Bad Things with new elements added to it.

Production

The film marked the debut production of director K. S. Ravikumar's manager P. L. Thenappan. Retired cricketer Krishnamachari Srikkanth and theatre actor Maadhu Balaji were considered to portray the role of Vedhantham Iyengar, before Yugi Sethu was finalised. Sethu signed on revealing that Haasan had approached him to be a part of his two previous films, Thenali (2000) and Pammal K. Sambandam (2002) too, which he did not take up.

The film began production in February 2002. Jayaram, who plays one of the five friends, said the film's title was not a reference to the Panchatantra, but the five friends. It was shot in Canada for seventeen days. In April 2002, Haasan was prevented from boarding a Los Angeles-bound flight in Toronto during the making of the film, with the security preventing him from passing due to his Islamic-sounding surname.

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