Prithvi as ’heroine’
After having established himself in Mollywood, performing prominent characters in Tamil and Hindi cinema, Prithviraj makes a come back in Kollywood with a rare yet performance oriented character. Prithviraj will now be playing the roles of a hero and heroine.
He portrays the role of a drama artist who enacts female characters on stage. This is for the movie titled ‘Kaviya Thalaivan’, a Vasanthabalan movie narrating the story of musical drama troupes which were predominant in Madurai during 1920s and 30s. The music of movie is composed by A R Rahman.
Although Sidharth plays the lead role, Prithvi handles an equally important character. In the movie when Prithvi enacts an epic heroine on stage Sidharth plays the hero opposite to the character.
At the same time, when Prithvi plays the role of Krishna, Sidharth appears as Meera; both actors depict characters with a great scope for competitive performance. Vedika is casted as the heroine of the movie and Nazar handles another important character. Babu Antony is also lined up among the array of stars.
The plot is based on the true story of K B Sundarambal and S G Kittappa who were stage artists and singers. Writer Jayamohan invited the attention of Vasanthabalan towards the life and story of the old music drama troupes.
There were some initial difficulties in getting a producer for this movie as it demanded a rather large budget. Meanwhile, Vasanthabalan completed his movie ‘Aravaan’. After that, when ‘Kaviya Thalaivan’ was being discussed again, S Sasikanth had agreed to produce it.
Vasanthabalan is the director of remarkable movies like ‘Veyil’ and ‘Angaditheruvu’. Several debut actors can be seen in the movie, starring beside Anaika Sothy, Thamby Ramayya and Ponvannan. The movie has about 20 big and small songs in it; 2 of which are penned by Vali.
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