Shruti Haasan To Star In Indo-UK Co-production ‘Chennai Story’ – FilmyVoice
Actress Shruti Haasan will headline India-UK movie co-production ‘Chennai Story’. She mentioned that she is all able to take ahead a culturally-rooted story to a world viewers.
Shruti mentioned: “Hailing from Chennai, a narrative exhibiting the variety and uniqueness of Chennai is so particular to me – collaborating with Phil is one thing I’m so excited to expertise, telling world and rooted tales via worldwide collaboration is what making cinema is all about. I’m all up for Sunitha Tati’s imaginative and prescient of taking a culturally-rooted story to a world viewers via ‘Chennai Story’.”
Shruti, who can be a famend musician, has performing credit throughout India’s varied language movie industries. In 2023, she was one of many leads in “Salaar,” one in every of India’s largest hits of the 12 months, and led British thriller ‘The Eye’. In 2019, she had a key function in US sequence ‘Treadstone’, studies Selection.
Tailored from Timeri N. Murari’s bestselling 2004 novel ‘The Preparations of Love’, ‘Chennai Story’ is a coming-of-age romantic comedy set in opposition to the backdrop of Wales and India the place Haasan takes on the pivotal function of Anu, a spunky personal detective.
The function was beforehand presupposed to be performed by Samantha Ruth Prabhu who’s now taking a 12 months’s sabbatical as a consequence of well being causes.
The solid additionally consists of Viveik Kalra, who was the lead in ‘Blinded by the Gentle’ and is at the moment in Netflix heist thriller ‘Carry’.
The movie is written and directed by BAFTA winner Philip John ‘Downton Abbey’ and co-written by British Sri Lankan actor Nimmi Harasgama, who performed the feminine lead in ‘Humorous Boy’. ‘Chennai Story’ is an English-language movie interspersed with Tamil and Welsh.
India’s Guru Movies ‘Oh! Child’, the UK’s Ripple World Footage ‘The Final Rifleman’ and Wales’ Ie Ie Productions ‘Queerama’ are co-producing the movie that goals to be made below the bilateral UK-India co-production treaty. The movie is backed by the British Movie Institute‘s (BFI) UK World Display screen Fund.
“Shruti’s skill to effortlessly traverse between her Tamil origins to world enchantment, positions her as a flexible actress and a worldwide musician. She represents each facet of ‘Chennai Story’ – a real reflection of the present younger Indian technology,” mentioned Sunitha Tati, founder and CEO of Guru Movies, studies Selection.
John mentioned: “I’m thrilled to be teaming up with the extremely proficient Shruti, on an emotional curler coaster of a narrative set in Chennai and Cardiff – two vibrant and multicultural cities.
“With the help of BFI, this movie brings a complete new collaboration to worldwide movie manufacturing, whereas additionally bringing a contemporary, under-explored Wales and India to the large display.”
Dominic Wright, producer and founding father of Ripple World Footage, added: “We’re thrilled that the multi-talented Shruti Haasan has joined the solid of this prestigious BFI-backed UK-India co-production movie.
“Shruti brings an thrilling, genuine, modern edge to the function, and taking part in reverse rising British star Viveik Kalra shall be electrical on this genuinely authentic cross-cultural rom-com that we consider audiences worldwide will enjoyment of.”
