The filming of Lokesh Kanagaraj's upcoming acting debut, DC, has been wrapped. Makers of the Tamil film, Sun Pictures, announced the news on X with images from the set.
The team released a glimpse from the movie to mark Valentine's Day earlier this year. The video opens with brief introductions of Parvati (Sanjana Krishnamoorthy), Chandra (Wamiqa Gabbi) and Devadas (Lokesh Kanagaraj) navigating bloodbath and yearning.
The dialogue-free teaser pays homage to Park Chan-wook's Oldboy by featuring Lokesh Kanagaraj slashing the throats of gangsters in a hallway. The film, written and directed by Matheswaran, will have music by Anirudh Ravichander.
The film's title teaser was released earlier last year. In the video, Kanagaraj is introduced as Devadas in a signature back shot, like the filmmaker introduced his characters in the movie Coolie. We also see him walking down the narrow corridor of a lodge, carrying a blood-soaked knife. Wamiqa Gabbi’s character, Chandra, can be seen picking a condom packet as she sees Devdas make his way towards her. The teaser also ends with a still from the Hollywood classic Bonnie and Clyde (1967), suggesting that the duo could be criminals who work together.
The upcoming Tamil film will be produced by Sun Pictures. After months of speculation and delays, Kanagaraj clarified the reasons for the delay of his film Kaithi 2, a sequel to his hit 2019 film starring Karthi. Lokesh was supposed to direct the sequel right after Rajinikanth’s Coolie. Opening up about the delay, speaking at a press conference in Chennai, the Tamil filmmaker said that work on Kaithi 2 would begin right after his film with Allu Arjun (tentatively titled AA23). He said that the film was first pushed when he took time off to work on a script that was meant to star both Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth. It was during this preparation period that the makers of Kaithi 2 and Karthi decided to give the dates that were allotted to Kaithi 2 to another director.