Echcharikkai

Echcharikkai – Idhu Manidhargal Nadamaadum Idam (English: Beware of humans) is an upcoming Tamil-language Indian crime thriller film written and directed by dubutant Director Sarjun KM. The film features Sathyaraj, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Kishore, Vivek and Yogi Babu. Principal photography of the film commenced at Pondicherry in December 2016 and shooting wrapped up by April 2017. The film, in its final stages of Post-Production is slated for a late 2017 release.

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Directed by	Sarjun KM
Produced by	Sundar Annamalai
Written by	Sarjun KM
Starring	Sathyaraj Varalaxmi Sarathkumar Kishore Vivek Rajgopal
Music by	Sundaramurthy KS
Cinematography	Sudarshan Srinivasan
Edited by	Karthik Jogesh
Production company	Timeline Cinemas

CAST

Sathyaraj as Nataraj IPS

Varalaxmi Sarathkumar as Swetha

Kishore as David

Vivek Rajgopal as Thomas

Yogi Babu as Frank De Souza

PRODUCTION

DEVELOPMENT

After completing his short film LAKSHMI, which got international appreciation in various film festivals, director Sarjun KM approached Producer Sundar Annamalai of Timeline Cinemas with his feature film script. The film fell in place quickly as Varalaxmi Sarathkumar and Kishore were frozen for major roles. After a series of auditions, debutant Vivek Rajagopal was selected as the male lead. Prakash Raaj was initially supposed to essay the role of Nataraj IPS, later the role went to Sathyaraj due to dates issues. Music Director Sundaramurthy, who had done Graghanam and 8 Thottakkal was signed as the composer for the film. Debut cinematographer Sudarshan Srinivasan and Malayalam editor Karthik Jogesh were signed up for Cinematography and Editing respectively.

FILMING

The first schedule of filming happened in Sudeshi Mill, Pondicherry in December 2016 where portions involving the lead casts Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Kishore and Vivek were shot for over ten days. The second schedule of the film with Sathyaraj started rolling in March 2017. Following this, portions involving Kishore, Vivek and Yogi Babu were shot in North Madras. Filming wrapped up by April 2017.

SOUNDTRACK

The film’s background score and songs are composed by Sundaramurthy KS with lyrics by Kabilan and lyricist GKB. The film will have four songs and one theme music. The music album is slated to release by October 2017.

PROMOTIONS

The first looks of the film were launched by three ace directors of Tamil cinema – Director Maniratnam, Director A R Murugadoss and Director Bala on 20, April 2017. The first look launch trended nation-wide on Twitter garnering a lot of attention for the film. Following this, the trailer of the film was launched by Actors R.Madhavan and Vijay Sethupathi on 15, September 2017 receiving massive response including 2 million trailer views worldwide.