Director Gautham Vasudev Menon and Suriya teamed up together for a short film in the upcoming Tamil anthology, Navarasa, produced by Mani Ratnam and Jayendra Panchapakesan. Navarasa, as the title suggests, will consist of 9 short stories with each one depicting one rasa. Gautham Menon will be directing one of the portions and his episode will feature Suriya in the lead role. The genre or theme of this portion is yet to be known. Legendary cinematographer PC Sreeram cranked the camera for this film that has music scored by Karthik. The shooting of Suriya - Gautham Menon's portion in Navarasa was wrapped up a few days before in Chennai and the wrap-up pictures did good rounds on social media.
Two weeks after the shoot, PC Sreeram has now taken to his official Instagram page to share a few new working stills from Navarasa featuring Suriya and Gautham Menon. The stills have gone viral on social media and Suriya's look for the project is revealed through these pictures. Suriya looks absolutely stunning and smart with his long hairdo and charming screen presence. This new glimpse has excited the fans and everyone is abuzz about it on social media. The recent grand success of Soorarai Pottru will give Suriya more energy and let us hope that we feel it in Navarasa. Gautham Menon is currently busy with the post-production works. Navarasa is scheduled to release next year on the Netflix OTT platform.
The nine directors who are a part of Navarasa include Gautham Vasudev Menon, KV Anand, Karthik Subbaraj, Halitha Shameem, Rathindran Prasad, Karthick Naren, Bejoy Nambiar, Ponram, and Aravind Swami (in his directorial debut). Navarasa's star cast features some of the big names from the industry including Suriya, Vijay Sethupathi, Arvind Swami, Prasanna, Siddharth, Gautham Karthik, Vikranth, Bobby Simha, Ashok Selvan, Prakash Raj, Revathy, Nithya Menen, Parvathy, Aishwarya Rajesh, Poorna, Riythvika, and others.
Navarasa comprises eight music directors and it includes A.R.Rahman, D Imman, Ghibran, Karthik, Aruldev, Ron Ethan Yohann, Justin Prabhakaran, and Govind Vasantha. PC Sreeram, Santosh Sivan, Balasubramaniem, Manoj Paramahamsa, Aninandhan Ramanujam, Shreyaas Krishna, Harshvir Oberai, Sujith Sarang, V Babu and Viraj Singh are the cinematographers who are part of this project. The entire revenue and returns of Navarasa will be donated to the daily wage workers and FEFSI Union workers who had a difficult time during the initial few months of intense lockdown. Check out the latest photos shared by PC Sreeram here: