Raveena Tandon stages comeback to Kollywood after twenty-four years
Raveena Tandon stages comeback to Kollywood after twenty-four years
Raveena Tandon gears up to stage her comeback to Tamil cinema after 24 years with Vijay Antony’s new courtroom drama, “Lawyer”. This will be the third Tamil film for the actress, who had earlier acted in Arjun Sarja’s Saadhu and Kamal Haasan’s Aalavandhan.
According to the film’s director, Joshua Sethuraman, he loved Raveena’s performance in Shool and they needed an actress with her dynamic presence for their film. She and Vijay Anyony will share equally important roles in this film.
Elaborating on how he approached the actress for this role, the director elaborates that after his “Gentlewoman” streamed on OTT, many from Bollywood called him. Since was a student of FTII, he has friends who are working in Bollywood, and that’s how he reached out to her and told her that she’d get an idea of his work once she sees Gentlewoman ,his debut film. After she watched it, he immediately narrated this film’s story and she evinced interested. Joshua shares that there won’t be any love angle in Lawyer and adds, It’s a slice-of-life story of a first-generation lawyer. It focuses on the struggles of a law school graduate, played by Vijay Antony, and issues of the working class.”
The director claims that his film will show how a real courtroom functions. “Usually, courtroom dramas deal with criminal cases, but this film deals with a civil case. It discusses a working-class issue taken up in a labour court. The courtrooms highlighted in Indian movies are far removed from reality. Films like Visaaranai highlighted how the police system functions, but he hasn’t seen many films showcasing the proper functioning of a court.
Besides essating the protagonist role, Vijay Antony will also be bankrolling and composing music for the film. Joshua shares, that he contacted him after watching Gentlewoman and said that he liked his perspective and wanted to work together.
Reflecting on his experience helming a two-heroine subject as his debut project, he says, “A lot of trade people asked them ‘Who will come for a two-heroine film when no one even comes for a hero’s films.’ But the film got 50 per cent profit even though many other films released along with it.”
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