Siruthai
`Siruthai' is an upcoming film starring Karthi in dual roles for the first time. Tamannah and Santhanam play the other central characters. `Siruthai' is a remake of the Telugu blockbuster `Vikramarkudu' starring Ravi Teja, Anushka and Brahmanadham. `Siruthai' is directed by Siva, a noted cinematographer-director in Telugu known for fast pace commercial ventures like `Shouryam' and `Shankam'. He is debuting in Tamil with this film. In the film Karthi plays the role of a honest police officer Ratnavel Pandian IPS and a cutpurse petty thief Rocket Raja. Tamannah is Rocket Raja's love interest. Santhanam is Pattu Poochi, the sidekick of Rocket Raja. Avinash, Rajiv Kanakala and Manobala are also in the cast. Meghna Naidu has done an item number. `Siruthai' is about two contradicting characters, different values in the society. But destiny brings them together resulting in unexpected chain of events. Rocket Raja (Karthi) is a cunning thief in the art of cut purse who never leaves anything during his acts. He and his side kick Pattu Poochi (Santhanam) follow this rituals wholeheartedly. Suddenly Rocket Raja's life is turned upside down when a little girl (Baby Rakshana) approaches claiming him to be her father. Stunned by the blow Rocket Raja slowly finds out the truth. The little girl turns out to be the daughter of an honest police officer Ratnavel Pandian IPS (Karthi) who was after the deadly dons in the city. During one his courageous acts he gets killed in action in front of Rocket Raja. Rocket Raja and his past revisits changing the faces of present for a paradisiacal future. Rocket Raja now decides to take on the dons on behalf of the dead cop Ratnavel Pandian. The good takes on the evil. `Siruthai' is the fifth film of Karthi and his second film with Tamannah after `Paiyaa'. The films is said to have the right mix of fun, action, glamour, romance, comedy and sentiments. According to Karthi, `Siruthai' is 70% of comedy and 30% action. Karthi has said that he did a lot of homework to make the two different characters look as original as possible. For the police officer role the actor said he got a lot of tips from his brother Suriya who did the immortal Anbu Selvan IPS in `Kaakha Kaakha' and also watched a lot of old films like `Moondru Mugam' to get that perfect style of a police like the Alex Pandian. However the action and comedy are touted as the highlights of the film. In a stunt sequence Karthi bashes down 19 goons in a single shot. Music of the film is composed by Vidyasagar. The music album released on December 30, 2010 has five songs in it. Velraj has handled choreography. `Siruthai' is produced by Studio Green's K.E.Gnanavelraja who has produced only hits so far in Sillunu Oru Kaadhal, Paruthiveeran, Singam and Naan Mahaan Alla. `Siruthai' is scheduled for a Pongal release. |
