Varmaa

Varmaa (2020)

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Varmaa, the wayward son of a businessman, tries to turn over a new leaf after he falls for Megha. However, caste issues derail their love life and appear to darken Varmaa's future.

Date of release
2020-10-06
TMDB
2.3 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Bala

Casting

Interesting facts

Varmaa is a 2020 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by Bala and produced by Mukesh Mehta of E4 Entertainment. A remake of the 2017 Telugu film Arjun Reddy, directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, the film stars Dhruv Vikram and Megha Chowdhury, the latter in her Tamil debut. The film features music composed by Radhan, with M. Sukumar handling the cinematography and Sathish Suriya, taking in-charge of the editing.

Production

In September 2017, it was announced that E4 Entertainment had bought the rights to remake the Telugu film Arjun Reddy (2017) in Tamil and Malayalam languages. The following month, Bala was chosen to direct the yet-untitled Tamil remake. On 10 November 2017, the title was announced as Varma, although it would later be amended to Varmaa. Raju Murugan was chosen to pen the dialogues. M.

Principal photography began in early March 2018 at Kathmandu, Nepal, and a week later, after completing the first schedule there, the crew shifted to Chennai for the second schedule. Filming was briefly stalled due to the Tamil Film Producers Council strike, but resumed in April after the strike ended. The final filming schedule took place in August 2018, for which the team had shifted to Tiruvannamalai.

On 7 February 2019, E4 issued a press statement stating that they would go for a complete reshoot as they were not satisfied with the final cut provided by Bala. Bala's version of the film contained deviations from Arjun Reddy, which resulted in the conflict. Changes included the absence of many characters from Arjun Reddy, including the male lead's grandmother. Varmaa was also two hours long while the original was three.

In a separate press statement, Bala decried E4's comments, saying it was his own decision to quit the film "in order to safeguard creative freedom" because he was asked to make changes. He shared an agreement signed with E4, revealing he had been granted complete creative control but was not willing to make changes, and if they were adamant, they could proceed as long as he was completely removed from the project.

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