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What was the past decently gripping Tamil thriller that you watched astatine the theatres? If you person to deliberation for a spot to reply that question, you are already stating capable astir however severely the Tamil audiences person been craving for a bully thriller. And if the trailer of Oh Butterfly is immoderate denotation of the movie that is awaiting us, our hold mightiness get implicit soon. Starring Nivedhithaa Sathish, Ciby, Nasser, and Attul among others, the movie is acceptable to merchandise successful theatres connected March 6.
Oh Butterfly is simply a narration thriller that follows a recently joined couple. “The woman has been hiding a concealed from her husband, thing she hopes to uncover astatine the secluded abrogation location she takes him to. However, unexpectedly, her ex shows up astatine the home, and their lives alteration for good,” reads the logline of the movie directed by debutant Vijay Ranganathan.
What has peculiarly caught the oculus astir the promotions is the film’s well-cut trailer. Revealing conscionable capable accusation to pique our interest, the promo evokes the charm of old-school intelligence thrillers successful Hollywood. “There’s a batch of unexpected worldly happening successful the film, and truthful we evidently wanted to support them hidden. But we wanted to amusement the 3 chiseled characters who anchor the film. All respect to the actors who play the leads, they aren’t stars, and truthful they don’t travel carrying an image. So we needed to specify their characters successful the trailer,” says Vijay.
The titular butterfly, the manager adds, is simply a quality by itself. “And the movie besides deals with the thought of the Butterfly Effect” — a mentation describing however thing seemingly insignificant, similar a butterfly flapping its wings successful Brazil, tin origin monolithic consequences, specified arsenic a tornado successful Texas — “because successful the film, thing tiny alters the lives of the radical involved.”
The debutant manager has had rather the travel earlier making the film. Vijay was a postgraduate successful concern banking. “I graduated erstwhile I was 23, good earlier I knew what I wanted to bash successful life. Then, aft moving for 12 years arsenic an concern banker, I realised that I wanted to bash thing successful storytelling,” says Vijay, adding that it helped that his parents were immense movie buffs. “Then I studied filmmaking astatine LV Prasad College of Media Studies.”
Shot successful Kothagiri, Kodaikanal, and Chennai, Oh Butterfly also stars Lakshmipriyaa Chandramouli and Geetha Kailasam successful pivotal roles. With euphony scored by Vaisakh Somanath, the movie has cinematography by Vedaraman Sankaran and editing by Bhuvanesh Manivannan.
Director Vijay Ranganathan besides produces the movie with Vennky, Anand S Shah, and Nisha Patial nether the Anthill Cinema and Palampur Talkies banners. “The learning curve, for me, has been rather steep with Oh Butterfly. Since I person besides produced the film, I support learning thing caller each day,” adds Vijay.
