'Karuppu Teaser': Is Suriya Back As A Lawyer After ‘Jai Bhim’ in The RJ Balaji Film?
The teaser was launched on the Tamil actor's 50th birthday on July 23.
The team behind Suriya’s 45th film has chosen the star’s 50th birthday to release the film’s teaser. Directed by RJ Balaji, the teaser promises a full-fledged action drama with a glimpse of the actor playing a lawyer again after his hit OTT release Jai Bhim (2021). Titled Karuppu, which translates to black, we can also spot a few callbacks to his classics in the 10-second teaser. One of these is the way he replicates the iconic watermelon sequence from his old film Ghajini. We also see him introducing himself as ‘Saravannan’, with the line ‘ennakku innoru per irukku’, translating to ‘I have another name too’, borrowed from the famous dialogue in Rajinikanth’s Baasha (1995). Not only is Suriya the actor’s stage name, but Saravannan is his real, given name. “A Feast By TEAM RJB” is how the teaser concludes.
It is being shot by GK Vishnu, who was the cinematographer behind films such as Jawan and Mersal. Karuppu is written by Ashwin Ravichandran, Rahul Raj, T. S. Gopi Krishnan and Karan Aravind Kumar and produced by Dream Warrior Pictures. Apart from Suriya and Trisha Krishnan, the film has Swasika, Indrans, Yogi Babu, Sshivada, Natty Subramaniam and Supreeth Reddy. It will also be hitmaker Sai Abhayankar’s first feature film as a music director.
Suriya has already begun his next film, titled Suriya-46. The Venky Atluri-directed film starring Suriya kicked off production amid high buzz in early June, with streaming giant Netflix reportedly acquiring post-theatrical rights. The film, backed by Naga Vamsi’s Sithara Entertainments in association with Fortune Four Cinemas, went on floors on June 9 following a formal launch with a muhurat pooja on May 19. Actor Mamitha Baiju stars alongside Suriya in the film.
Suriya was last seen in Karthik Subbaraj’s Retro, which had received positive to mixed reviews from critics and audience alike. For his 50th birthday, the actor’s fans have organised special shows of his blockbuster Ghajini across states.