UTV ANNOUNCES ITS NEXT TAMIL FILM ‘IVAN VERA MADHIRI’ WITH THIRRUPATHI BROTHERS

Chennai, 20th June 2013: UTV Motion Pictures today announced its next Tamil film Ivan Vera Madhiri (He is different) to be co-produced with popular Director N. Lingusamy’s Thirrupathi brothers, to be written and directed by M. Saravanan (Super Hit film ‘Engeyum Eppodhum’ fame) and will star Vikram (of ‘Kumki’ fame) and Surabhi in the lead along with Vamsi, Ganesh Venkatraman and Sharmili in a pivotal role. The music will be rendered by C. Sathya (of ‘Engeyum Eppodhum’ and ‘Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru’ fame).

The film is currently under production and will be released in September 2013. The crew shot the film for over 100 days in various locations in and around Chennai city and Pondicherry.

“We are excited to continue our association with director N. Lingusamy’s Thirrupathi Brothers, with whom we had a mutually beneficial association in the films and Vazhakku Enn 18/9 last year. Ivan Vera Madhiri is a romantic-action entertainer and will be the next release for Vikram Prabhu after his successful film “Kumki” and for writer-director M. Saravanan who made his last successful film ‘Engeyum Eppodhum” in 2011. After the success of Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru this will be UTV’s next release and will be in both Tamil and Telugu languages,” said G. Dhananjayan, Chief – South Business, Studios, Disney UTV.

The key technicians on the film are: Director of Photography: Shakthi, Editor: Sreekar Prasad, Art Director: Murugan.

STUDIOS – Disney UTV

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 , , , A Wednesday, Dev D, , The Namesake, Life in a Metro, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Fashion, , , Raajneeti, Udaan, , Delhi Belly and more recently , Paan Singh Tomar, , Barfi!, Heroine, Race 2, AnyBody Can Dance (ABCD) and Kai Po Che!.

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 2012 so far with Vettai, Masala Café, Mugamoodi, and Settai in Tamil, and Grandmaster and Husbands in Goa in Malayalam. UTV has a library of over 70 films including Hindi, Regional, Animation and International Productions, which have been showcased in over 50 festivals across 28 countries, receiving almost 250 awards in the last 7 years.

The Walt Disney Studios has seen unprecedented box office success in India recently with MARVEL’s The Avengers which was distributed and marketed in India by UTV Motion Pictures. The film emerged the 4th highest grosser of all-time amongst Hollywood films in India. 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 Ghanchakkar, Satyagraha and in Hindi, Sigaram Thodu in Tamil, Monster University, Planes, Lone Ranger in English and many more.

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