கோப்ரா (2022)

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• Girato a: India, Ramee Mall, Chennai, Russia, Colcata e Kerala

Cobra is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language psychological action thriller film directed by R. Ajay Gnanamuthu and produced by 7 Screen Studio. The film stars Vikram in a dual roles as twin brothers, alongside Srinidhi Shetty, Irfan Pathan, Roshan Mathew, Sarjano Khalid, Mirnalini Ravi, Miya George, K. S. Ravikumar, Anandaraj, Robo Shankar and Meenakshi Govindarajan. It marked the acting debut of Pathan, previously a cricketer, and the Tamil debuts of Roshan Mathew, Sarjano Khalid and Srinidhi Shetty. In the film, an Interpol officer is assigned to catch a mysterious assassin, who intelligently assassinates people using mathematical skills, named "Cobra".

Production

In May 2019, Producer S. S. Lalit Kumar of 7 Screen Studio and Viacom18 Studios announced their upcoming project featuring Vikram, tentatively titled as Vikram 58. The film is directed by R. Ajay Gnanamuthu, who previously helmed Demonte Colony (2015) and Imaikkaa Nodigal (2018). It was intended to be a pan-Indian film, set for release in five languages, during the summer in April 2020. By July 2019, A. R.

In December, Viacom18 backed out of the project for unknown reasons, and Lalit Kumar was credited as the sole producer. While it was rumoured to be titled as Amar, the makers cleared the rumours by announcing the official title as Cobra on 25 December 2019. The team titled the film "Cobra" because it resembles the pivotal character of snake cobra.

In late October 2019, the makers announced that Srinidhi Shetty, would play the female lead. This film marks her debut in Tamil cinema. Shetty was cast after a successful audition, and Gnanamuthu called her role a "complete contrast" to what she played in the Kannada film KGF: Chapter 1 (2018). Former Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan signed to play a pivotal role in the project. This also marks his debut in Indian film industry.

In late October, K. S. Ravikumar joined the cast and shot for a few days. Gnanamuthu stated that his character will be a "complex" one and "quite integral to the script". In January 2020, Mirnalini Ravi was roped in to the cast, and in the same month Robo Shankar also joined as one of the supporting actors.

Principal photography began on 4 October 2019 in Chennai. While Pathan joined the sets of the shoot on 15 October, Shetty joined only at the end of the month. The former had finished the first schedule of the film on 6 November 2019 in Chennai. On 11 November 2019, Vikram and his team headed to Alleppey for a song shoot, which was completed within two days. By the end of November 2019, the second schedule of filming was completed in Kerala.

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