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Watch: 'Putham Pudhu Kaalai' trailer is out! Five top directors of Kollywood have come together!

By alagu, 05 October, 2020
India, Tamil cinema, Kollywood, Amazon Prime

Anthology has been a little touched subject in Kollywood as the industry has largely been exposed to its typical style of movie-making where the story would be revolving around a particular piece of track and genre from the start to the end whereas anthology is far from the normal through publishing one or more subjects of stories in a single movie and the perfect example for the anthology movie in Tamil is 'Sillu Karuppati', which has different stories under the genre of love, and it has received an overwhelming reception in the Tamil movie industry, which prepared the audience to get exposed to such subjects.  

Though the anthology would have several directors and culminate into a beautiful piece of movie-making, Sillu Karuppati was directed by only one director - Halitha Shameem, and she had attained fame through the movie of speaking love across all walks of lives. What if all your favorite directors come together and reach your hands in a single movie with their own stories? It has now become possible and some of the top directors of the Kollywood are soon going to reach your home. 

Lockdown had seemingly made it possible and the new anthology of five Tamil short films directed by five top directors would be released on October 16 on Amazon Prime Video. Titled as 'Putham Pudhu Kaalai', the five short films have been directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon, Rajiv Menon, Sudha Kongara, Karthik Subbaraj, and Suhasini Mani Ratnam. An unprecedented reunification from the top directors has poured more expectations and hope from the fans as they have been developing a new relationship with the OTT platforms as a new normal. 

 

In what could become a perfect anthology, the short films are starring some of the top and young actors like Shruti Haasan, Jayaram, Urvasi, Kalidas Jayaram, Kalyani Priyadarshan, Ritu Verma, Andrea Jeremiah, MS Bhaskar, and Bobby Simha. Amazon Prime has officially released the trailer of the anthology on Monday and the trailer had shown that the anthology would be revolving around five different stories during the nationwide lockdown. 

The two- minutes trailer begins with an announcement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi declaring a lockdown for 21 days and ends when the lockdown has come to an end and we can expect that the stories would capture how the different characters had responded to the lockdown. 'Ilamai Idho Idho' was directed by Sudha Kongara and has Jayaram, Urvashi, Kalidas Jayaram, and Kalyani Priyadarshan in the cast. 

Gautham Vasudev Menon had directed the short film of 'Avanum Naanum/Avalum Naanum' in which Ritu Varma- the granddaughter ends up to reside with her grandfather MS Bhaskar without having a proper introduction between each other. Rajiv Menon has directed 'Reunion' in which Andrea plays a lead role while Suhasini Maniratnam had directed 'Coffee, Anyone?' which has Anu Hasan and Shruti Haasan in the cast. 

 

'Pizza' fame Karthik Subbaraj has directed 'Miracle' which has a thriller and supernatural elements and Bobby Simha and Muthu Kumar had acted in the lead. The anthology will be getting released on October 16 and while speaking about the release, the head of India Originals, Amazon Prime, said that Putham Puthu Kaalai was born with the intent of taking about hope, love, and new beginnings and the fact that art finds expression in the most challenging times".  

Aparna Purohit said, "With Putham Pudhu Kaalai, we are delighted to bring to our customers a unique offering by some of the best creative visionaries from the Tamil entertainment industry". According to the Twitter handle of the OTT platform, legendary director Mani Ratnam and oscar-winner AR Rahman had launched the trailer of Putham Pudhu Kaalai. The musician has also congratulated the team on their new beginnings. 

Watch the trailer:

 

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