Kalathil Santhippom (2021)

Interesting facts

Kalathil Santhippom is a 2021 Indian Tamil language sports action drama film written and directed by N. Rajasekar with dialogues penned by R. Ashok. The film stars Jiiva, Arulnithi, Manjima Mohan and Priya Bhavani Shankar. The film is based on the sport of kabaddi and the friendship between two men Ashok and Anand who were initially regarded as rivals. It had its theatrical release on 5 February 2021 and opened to positive reviews from critics and became an average hit at the box office.

Production

Actor Jiiva's father and veteran film producer R. B. Choudary announced that he would produce the film helmed by filmmaker N. Rajasekar. It marked 90th film project for R. B. Choudary under his production banner Super Good Films. Jiiva and Arulnithi were roped into play as the main male lead actors in the film and it also marked the first collaboration between them.

Jiiva] and Arulnithi both were taught the basic skills of the sport of kabaddi from few professional kabaddi players based from Karaikudi. The film director revealed that the kabaddi related sequences were shot on a set for about seven days which also featured real professional kabaddi players. Raju Sundaram served as the choreographer in the film. The portions of the film were predominantly shot in Chennai, Karaikudi and Thenkasi.

The title of the film and the first look poster of the film were unveiled by actor Dhanush via his Twitter account on 4 August 2019 indicating that the film was in post-production stage.

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