Kalidas Jayaram’s new Tamil film announced

Kalidas Jayaram, who delivered impressive performances in the anthologies ‘Putham Pudhu Kaalai’ and ‘Paava Kadhaigal’, has bagged his next Tamil project. Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi will be directing the film, that has Tanya Ravichandran as the female lead. The project was officially announced last day during a Twitter Spaces interaction session. It is a first such launch for a Tamil film.

Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi, wife of actor-MLA Udhayanidhi Stalin and daughter-in-law of Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, has previously directed two films — ‘Vanakkam Chennai’ and ‘Kaali’. Her next with Kalidas and Tanya is said to be a time-travel based film. Richard M Nathan, the cinematographer of Kiruthiga’s previous two films, has been retained for this one as well. It is produced by Sagar Pentela’s Rise East banner.

Kalidas meanwhile has a Tamil-Malayalam bilingual coming up. Debutant director Vinil Varghese is helming the film and it is being produced by Navarasa Films. The Malayalam version has been titled as ‘Rajni’ while the Tamil version’s title is yet to be announced. Reba Monica John and Namitha Pramod are the female leads in it.