UTV ANNOUNCES ITS NEXT TAMIL FILM ‘PURAMPOKKU’ WITH S.P. JHANANATHAN STARRING ARYA & VIJAY SETHUPATHI
Chennai, 22ND August 2013: UTV Motion Pictures today announced its next Tamil film Purampokku (No Man’s Land) to be written and directed by National Award winning director S.P. Jhananathan (director responsible for hit films like Sham-Arun Vijay’s ‘Iyarkai’, Jiiva’s ‘E’ and Jayam Ravi’s ‘Peranmai’). The film will star one of the leading actors of Tamil cinema, Arya and Vijay Sethupathi (of Pizza, Naduvule Konjam Pakkathai Kanom and Soodhu Kavvum fame) along with many others.
The leading lady and the remaining cast and crew are currently being finalised. The film will be produced by UTV Motion Pictures in association with S.P. Jhananathan’s Binary Pictures and is currently under pre-production and will go on floors in October / November 2013. The film will be shot across various locations in Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh / Telangana and Chennai and is being slated for an April / May 2014 release. Ekambaram will be the cinematographer of the film and will be edited by V.T. Vijayan.
“We are delighted to work with S.P. Jhananathan, who is known for his mass commercial films which had a strong message for the audience. We are happy to have Arya and Vijay Sethupathi on board as the leading actors. In addition, it will also have many international technicians working on the action sequences. The film will be a mass commercial film and will be our next release after Ivan Veramathiri and Sigaram Thodu”, said G. Dhananjayan, Chief – South Business, Studios, Disney UTV.
“I am delighted to associate with Disney UTV in directing and producing this film. Both Arya and Vijay Sethupathi are acting in totally different roles not seen in Tamil cinema so far. Their characters will bring out the best acting talent in a new platform for both. The background to the film is unique like the name of the title and will be spoken about like my previous three films. He further explained that, though the title Purampokku is used colloquially to demean others, the word has deeper meaning and has historical importance. Mountains and snow peeks, poles, sea, desert all are Purampokku. Air, water, light, dark, even universe and the so called All Mighty are also Purampokku … i.e. common to the humanity. Purampokku word is commonly used to define Purampokku land, which does not belong to any single person but to the public at large. Our ancestors have left more than fifteen different types of Purampokku lands for various uses by the people (e.g. Lake Purampokku, river Purampokku, cemetery Purampokku etc.). All common facilities like schools and hospitals, govt. offices were constructed in these Purampokku lands by the Governments or local bodies. Such lands meant for the common use of the public are cornered illegally by powerful individuals in the recent past and the film takes up this issue strongly in a commercial format like my earlier films,” said writer-director S.P. Jhananathan.
Disney UTV Studios
Bringing together the best of both worlds, The Walt Disney Studios and UTV Motion Pictures have formed one of the leading film studios in India. The studio’s activities span across creative development, production, marketing, distribution, licensing, merchandising and syndication of films in India and worldwide.
UTV Motion Pictures as a dominant player in the Indian film industry has been in the forefront of bringing Indian films to a global audience and the last decade in Indian cinema has seen UTV delivering some of the most iconic films including Swades, Rang De Basanti, Jodhaa Akbar, A Wednesday, Dev D, Khosla Ka Ghosla, The Namesake, Life in a Metro, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Fashion, Kaminey, No One Killed Jessica, Raajneeti, Udaan, Peepli Live, Delhi Belly, Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu, Paan Singh Tomar, Rowdy Rathore, Barfi!, Heroine and more recently Race 2, AnyBody Can Dance (ABCD), Kai Po Che!, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Ghanchakkar and Chennai Express.
The studio has to its credit 4 films in the last 7 years to have been selected to represent India at the Academy awards; Rang De Basanti (2006), Harishchandrachi Factory (2009), Peepli Live (2010) and Barfi! (2012). In 2011, UTV also became one of the few studios to successfully venture into South Indian cinema with Deiva Thirumagal and Muran, and has had a successful run so far with Vettai, Masala Café, Mugamoodi, Thaandavam, Settai and Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru in Tamil, and Grandmaster and Husbands in Goa in Malayalam. UTV has a library of over 80 films including Hindi, Regional, Animation and International Productions, which have been showcased in over 50 festivals across 28 countries, receiving almost 350 awards in the last 7 years.
The Walt Disney Studios has seen unprecedented box office success in India in 2012 with MARVEL’s The Avengers which was distributed and marketed in India by UTV Motion Pictures. The film emerged as the 4th highest grosser of all-time amongst Hollywood films in India. Iron Man 3 released in 2013 is by far the highest Hollywood grosser this year. Prior to this, Cars 2 and Pirates of the Caribbean 4 released in 2011 and were the biggest animation and live action titles of all time for Disney in the country. In 2010, Prince of Persia became the highest grossing western film in India that year. Earlier, Disney released its first live action Hindi feature Do Dooni Chaar in 2010 and subsequently after the success of the film, released Anaganaga-O-Dheerudu, a Telugu feature targeted at the southern audiences and second Hindi live-action film Zokkomon.
Coming up from the combined Studio is an inimitable slate with films like Satyagraha and The Lunchbox in Hindi, Ivan Vera Madhiri and Sigaram Thodu in Tamil, Planes in English and many more.
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