Selvaraghavan’s new film with STR, Trisha

The poster of 'Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya'

In my entire life, only four films made me walk out of the movie hall due to sheer boredom – ‘Vishwaroopam’, ‘Enthiran’, 'Kanthaswamy' (the Vikram-Shriya Sharan starrer), and ‘Irandaam Ulagam’. ‘Vishwaroopam’ is at No. 1 on top-of-the-mind recollection list simply because I paid for the tickets.

'Irandaam Ulagam' was an extremely ambitious film with so many things that went wrong - Arya with his strange accent (the accent worked for his other characters, but this time it was annoying), Anushka looking perpetually angry and stuck up for no reason at all, the strange makeup for Arya in the 'other world' scenes that actually made him look more like a cross-dresser, the zero chemistry, the boring music, weird dialogues and what else not.

Anyway, prior to the release of ‘Irandaam Ulagam’, Selvaraghavan gave some very straight-from-the-heart interviews. In some of them, he was contemplating retirement too, at the age of 37 because work was taking a toll on his health. There were talks that the producer had run into financial troubles because the film took more time than expected and the budget overshot too.

Looks like past is past and the director is getting ready to launch a new film, this time with the VTV pair, Simbu and Trisha, in the lead. The director hasn’t chosen a name yet.

Deccan Chronicle reports that the film will be launched in April this year. 

Meanwhile, STR was keeping himself superbusy - the protests along with students, his alleged break-up with Hansika Motwani (after his alleged relationship with her), his new film with Nayantara that will hit the screens soon...