Dharmraj Films Naveen Produces Debutant Babu Tamizh Directorial IKK

Dharmraj Films’ Naveen produces, debutant Babu Tamizh directorial ‘IKK’, starring debutant Yogesh and Guru Somasundaram

Dharmraj Films’ Naveen produces ‘IKK’, written and directed by debutant Babu Tamizh, with debutant Yogesh, Guru Somasundaram, Anika Vikhraman, ‘Aadukalam’ Naren playing pivotal roles along with others.

Director Babu Tamizh was recently in the news for his Story-Screenplay-Dialogue contributions for the movie ‘Jiivi’, which attracted very good responses from both audience and the critics alike.

‘IKK’ talks about the life of a psychologically disturbed football player, which is all set to be picturised in a most emotional and realistic way by debutant Babu Tamizh.  A promising football player, who gets seriously injured in his very first game, decides to sit back and analyze the events that led to this situation and to study the strange turn of events encouraged by the subtle information that is revealed to him.  Whether he was able to identify the reason for his problems and setbacks, and did he manage to overcome them is the plot of this movie, which has been picturised in a most entertaining and engaging way with appropriate mix of fantasy  and thrill.

 
Radhakrishnan cranks the camera, while Rahul is trusted with the editorial responsibilities.

 Gavaskar Avinash scores the music, while stunts are trusted with ‘Fire’ Karthik, and art with Kallai Deva.

Dharmraj Films’ Naveen production, debutant Babu Tamizh directorial ‘IKK’ has hit the floors. Also, the team has further confirmed that most of the movie will be shot in Chennai except for a few critically important scenes that are to be shot overseas.

Director VJ Gopinath on “Jiivi”

It’s not a common scenario, where ‘script writers’ are given their due credits. Even if it happens, that would appear tagged along with the director’s name. However, the K-town is so much enthralled to see the genuineness of team ‘Jiivi’, especially filmmaker VJ Gopinath pass on all the credits that he has been gaining for the brilliant trailer towards script writer Babu Tamizh.

While giving an experience time-travel to the point of ‘Jiivi’ inception, director VJ Gopinath says, “It was in 2015, my close friend Babu Tamizh had approached me with the script, asking me to direct. It was such a wonderful film, where it sounded like a never-seen or never-heard before concept. In fact, I strongly believed that audiences will feel the same in theatres as well. Sooner, we started approaching many actors and producers. Despite the delay, we were confident that the film will definitely get a good reception even if made after 3-4 years for it had a unique content. After meeting several actors, we finally met and narrated the script to Vetri. On his part, he was going through a challenging phase of selecting unique scripts and to our fortune, he found ours to be a worthy one.”

While few who have already watched “Jiivi” have been extolling it as ‘Out of box thinking’, it’s already been declared the same with the ones who have made similar predictions watching the trailer. So how does director VJ Gopinath see such acclamations? “Definitely, all credit goes to my friend Babu Tamizh and it’s his unparalleled thinking that has yielded positive results now.”

Having credited his heartiest thanks to Babu Tamizh, the director shares the challenges that were involved in materializing the script. “Yes, the script had a unique concept of ‘Human Connectivity’ and as Babu narrated the story for first time, I could feel that there are going to be heavy challenges while shooting. Apparently, I took sumptuous time of 2-3 months preparing with shot divisions and other essential aspects, which made the process easy.”

A film’s title happens to be the curtain raiser when it comes to attracting crowds. In this aspect, ‘Jiivi’ has nurtured itself with best reach. Filmmaker VJ Gopinath reveals an interesting fact that it was actor Sibiraj who suggested the title. “Actually, we were having lots of discussions to finalize the title, which we wanted to be inherent to the protagonist’s nature of being brilliant. When we narrated the script to Sibi sir, he suggested us this title, which was so much apt. However, he couldn’t take up this project due to his prior commitments during that point of time.”

Bankrolled by M. Vellapandian, V. Sudalaikan Vellapandian and V. Subramanian Vellapandian for Vetrivel Saravana Cinemas, Vetri of “8 Thottakkal” fame plays the lead, which features Monica Chinnakotla, Ashwin Chandrashekar, Rohini, Karunakaran, Rama, Mime Gopi and Thangadurai in pivotal roles. The BGM of KS Sundaramurthy in the film’s trailer has evoked an incredulous response instilling for more such impact in full-length feature, which is scheduled for worldwide release on this Friday (June 28).