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The trailer of much-awaited Dulquer Salmaan-starrer Tamil movie Kaanthahas dropped up of its merchandise connected November 14, 2025. The 2.55-minute trailer promises a captivating, drama-driven communicative powered by performances of Dulquer, Samuthirakani, Rana Daggubati and Bhagyashri Borse.
Directed by Selvamani Selvaraj, who made the docu-series The Hunt for Veerappan, the film, acceptable successful the 1950s, successful Madras, explores the strained narration betwixt a filmmaker (Samuthirakani) and his protégé, TK Mahadevan (Dulquer). While the trailer begins with Samuthirakani’s quality telling Dulquer that helium has been chosen to play the pb successful Modern Picture’s adjacent venture, things get heated up arsenic their equation changes, by the clip Mahadevan’s stardom hits the extortion and helium becomes known arsenic the ‘King of acting’.
As revealed successful the teaser of the movie released a fewer months ago, the conflict of egos betwixt them is implicit the film, Shaantha, touted arsenic Tamil industry’s archetypal fearfulness film. Mahadevan decides to person his mode connected the set, ignoring his director. He is upset erstwhile the manager stresses that the movie is each astir the heroine, played by Bhagyashri, who successful turn, is caught betwixt the two. At a point, Mahadevan decides to alteration the film’s sanction to Kaantha from Shaantha. Rana arrives arsenic a constabulary officer, presumably owed to immoderate untoward incidental connected the shooting location.
Dulquer Salmaan successful Kaantha | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
The movie is said to beryllium loosely inspired by the beingness of MK Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, considered the archetypal superstar successful Tamil cinema. If so, this is Dulquer’s 2nd effort astatine playing a real-life actor, the different being Mahanati, in which helium essayed Gemini Ganeshan. His past merchandise was the Telugu film, Lucky Bhaskar and helium had besides appeared successful a cameo successful 1 of the biggest hits of this year, Lokah: Chapter 1 - Chandra, which helium besides produced.
The movie marks the Tamil debut of Bhagyashri, who made her acting debut with the Hindi film, Yaariyan 2, did a peculiar quality successful the Hindi film, Chandu Champion, and acted successful the Telugu films, Mr Bachchan and Kingdom.
Kaantha is produced by Dulquer Salmaan, Rana Daggubati, Prashanth Potluri and Jom Varghese nether the banners Wayfarer Films and Spirit Media. Jhanu Chanthar is the euphony manager portion Dani Sanchez Lopez is the cinematographer. Llewellyn Anthony Gonsalvez is the exertion and Ramalingam is the creation director.
The movie has been dubbed successful Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. Dharma Productions is releasing the movie successful North India.
