Madhavan’s ‘Legacy’, Sundeep Kishan’s ‘Super Subbu’ and more: Netflix announces 6 new Tamil and Telugu originals

Netflix India connected Monday (October 13) announced six caller archetypal films and bid successful Tamil and Telugu. The slate includes stories created by newcomers arsenic good arsenic cinema helmed and starring acclaimed stars, similar R Madhavan, Sundeep Kishan, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Anand Deverakonda, Gautham Karthik, Gulshan Devaiah, and more.

The streaming giant, which boasts a slope of immoderate globally acclaimed Tamil and Telugu titles, including Maharaja, Lucky Baskhar, Leo, Amaran, and Devara, is attempting to solidify its beingness successful determination languages done these six caller titles. In a connection to the press, Monika Shergill, Vice President, Content, Netflix India, said, “From our aboriginal originals to a divers slate of films pursuing their theatrical releases, the richness of storytelling from this portion has been a cornerstone of our growth. We are present excited to bring the adjacent question of archetypal stories, shaped successful collaboration with emerging voices from Tamil and Telugu cinema, spanning gritty thrillers, comedies, rooted dramas, and cross-cultural romances, offering some extent and breadth. It has been an inspiring travel moving alongside the originative community, and we look guardant to sharing these stories with our audiences.”

Here are the caller films and bid announced by Netflix:

Stephen

Stephen is a Tamil intelligence thriller directed by Mithun and starring Gomathi Shankar. “A psychiatrist evaluating a self-confessed serial slayer unravels a twisted web of trauma, deceit, and intelligence manipulation — lone to question if the slayer is genuinely blameworthy oregon conscionable different unfortunate successful a larger, darker game,” reads the logline. Also starring Michael Thangadurai and Smruthi Venkat, the movie is produced by Jayakumar and Mohan nether the JM Production House banner.

In a statement, Gomathi Shankar said, “Stephen is a movie that looks beyond the transgression to the antheral down it. Portraying him meant uncovering the nuances that marque him vulnerable, adjacent endearing, portion his acheronian ever remained intact. For me, the situation was to bring retired the shades of a serial slayer without turning them into absolutes.”

Super Subbu

The Telugu bid Super Subbu is billed arsenic an offbeat drama of errors directed by Mallik Ram and starring Sundeep Kishan. “A wholly unlucky teacher, hopeless to flight his dad’s tyranny, gets stuck teaching enactment acquisition successful a distant and virile village! The hilarious twist? He’s a virgin himself! Thus ensues a chaotic thrust wherever love, laughs, and awkward moments collide,” reads the logline. The bid besides stars Mithila Palkar and Murali Sharma.

Sundeep Kishan, successful a connection to the press, said, “When I heard the narration for Super Subbu, I believed it was an untold world which would find emotion from the assemblage arsenic a story. These are stories that merit to beryllium told, and I’m gladsome to beryllium a portion of it all. The premise is truthful refreshing whilst celebrating the joyousness of the elemental moments successful life. The vigor successful the characters and humour successful the penning marque the full amusement travel to beingness with a grin connected your look “

#Love

Arjun Das and Aishwarya Lekshmi header manager Balaji Mohan’s upcoming Tamil series, #Love. “Sparks alert erstwhile the paths of Tara, a young and driven startup founder, transverse with Matthew, a suave, flamboyant investor. While Tara believes and bases her dating app connected the ideology of compatibility, Matthew backs a dating app that endorses chemistry. They extremity up successful a concern wherever they situation each different to settee this statement of chemistry versus compatibility erstwhile and for all,” reads the logline of the bid produced by Soundarya Rajinikanth.

“#Love is simply a modern instrumentality connected the classical ‘opposites attract’ idea, but with a caller twist of exertion and dating apps. A communicative that reflects today’s dating scenery portion exploring timeless questions astir emotion — contemporary, relatable and charming,” said manager Balaji Mohan successful a statement.

Made In Korea

Made In Korea, billed arsenic a heartfelt cross-cultural film, stars Priyanka Mohan alongside Park Hye-Jin of Squid Game fame. Directed by Ra Karthik, the movie is astir a young pistillate whose imagination travel to Korea is derailed by betrayal. “When Shenba’s imagination of visiting Korea with her fellow shatters successful betrayal, she finds herself unsocial successful Seoul, grappling with loneliness and taste challenges. As she transforms done life’s harsh lessons, Shenba discovers resilience and forms a enslaved for beingness with her newfound friends,” says the logline.

“What drew maine to this task was the spot and uniqueness of its communicative — it’s a compelling communicative that instantly captured my interest. As idiosyncratic who has ever appreciated Korean dramas, the accidental to beryllium portion of an Indo-Korean collaboration was some breathtaking and meaningful. I recovered a heavy idiosyncratic transportation with the quality I portray, which made the determination adjacent much natural. When Karthik sir narrated the script, I knew close past that I wanted to beryllium a portion of it,” work Priyanka Mohan’s connection connected the film.

Takshakudu

Actor Anand Deverakonda teams up with histrion Nitanshi Goel of Laapataa Ladies fame for the upcoming Telugu folklore thriller Takshakudu, directed by Vinod Anantoju. “After a cursed nighttime reduces his colony to ashes, bringing folklore to life, a unsighted tribal antheral and his loyal canine travel done an unforgiving satellite to face the antheral and the acheronian that destroyed everything helium loved,” reads the logline. The thriller movie is produced by Naga Vamsi S of Sithara Entertainments.

In a statement, Anand said that Takshakudu is much than conscionable an enactment drama. “What genuinely caught my imaginativeness was however the director, Vinod, drew from the past folklore and reimagined it for our times. At its heart, this communicative isn’t astir heroes oregon villains. It’s astir what greed tin do, however it pulls radical to the edge, and sometimes makes them suffer everything without adjacent realizing it. Playing Suri gave maine a accidental to measurement into a satellite wherever each enactment has consequences, and each quality faces their ain demon,” helium added.

Legacy

Legacy is an upcoming Tamil bid that features a powerhouse ensemble cast: R Madhavan, Nimisha Sajayan, Gautham Karthik, Gulshan Devaiah and Abhishek Banerjee. Directed by Charukesh Sekar, the bid is produced by Kalyan Shankar of Stone Bench Pvt Ltd, the accumulation banner of acclaimed filmmaker Karthik Subbaraj. “Periyavar, an ageing patriarch of a almighty transgression family, races against clip to anoint a successor to support his mighty empire from an inevitable siege. He volition person to combat to prevention the family, his Empire and astir importantly - his Legacy,” reads the logline.

“Ever truthful rarely, as an actor, you travel crossed a communicative that touches and excites you from within, and erstwhile you get a communicative similar that, you drawback it with each that you have… therefore, I’m truthful incredibly thrilled to beryllium portion of Legacy, a bid that has each the makings of becoming its ain title. It’s a communicative that is cleverly written, with large hooks and twists that genuinely marque it dissimilar thing that’s been done successful the Indian OTT space,” said acclaimed histrion Madhavan successful a statement.