Vettuvam

Interesting facts

Vettuvam is an upcoming Indian Tamil-language science fiction sports action film directed by Pa. Ranjith, who co-wrote the screenplay with Santhosh Naryanan Chenthilkumar and Franklin Jacob. The film stars Arya, V R Dinesh, Sobhita Dhulipala, Kalaiyarasan and Shabeer Kallarakkal leading an ensemble cast.

Production

Vettuvam was first publicly revealed at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in May 2022, when Pa. Ranjith unveiled the film's first-look poster. At that point, Ranjith was writer and director, and the project being produced through his Neelam Productions in collaboration with Golden Ratio Films.

The project was delayed. Despite the original 2022/23 schedule, Vettuvam did not enter production then. By June 2024, the film was reportedly still in the scripting stage. At that point, Ranjith was simultaneously working around the release of Thangalaan (2024), and Vettuvam was being positioned as his next project.

Ranjith continued developing the screenplay considerably after the Cannes announcement. The eventual screenplay credits are Ranjith, Santhosh Narayanan Chenthilkumar and dialogue writer Franklin Jacob. Ranjith said he took the characters from the originally conceived gangster story and built a new world around them. The new version became a science fiction and futuristic drama. This eventually resulted in the film spanning three periods.

The final technical team included cinematographer Roopesh Shaji, editor Selva RK, art director S. S. Murthi, action choreographer Dhilip Subbarayan, music composer G. V. Prakash Kumar, sound designer Anthony B. J. Ruban, sound mixer G. Suren, choreographer Sandy, costume designers Anitha Sundaresan, Naushad Ahmed and Varshini Sankar, and make-up artist Kalaiyazhagan.

The first major actor associated with the project was V R Dinesh, whom Ranjith had previously directed in Attakathi (2012). By June 2024, reports identified Dinesh as one of the leads. Dinesh eventually became the film's principal lead and later changed his professional name from Dinesh Ravi to V R Dinesh, with the change being publicly associated with Vettuvam.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.