Vikram is coming out with one of the most anticipated Tamil films of recent times with Pa Ranjith’s Thangalaan (2024), which will see him play the leader of a common man’s resistance army against the British Raj. This period film had its teaser launch recently in Chennai when the cast and crew assembled to share experiences of the shoot.
The film also stars Parvathy Thiruvothu, Pasupathy, Malavika Mohanan and Daniel Caltagirone among the ensemble cast. The recently released teaser shows the scale and visual grandeur of the film and the few minutes offer a sneak peek into the war sequences and mood of the film that traces a resurgence movement. Vikram recalled the shooting days and the filmmaking approach they used in the film at the launch event. ”This is the first time I am working on live sync sound. I am used to the dubbing process. If you see in Anniyan also I used to improvise and bring tweaks into scenes through dubbing. But here there was no scope for any of that. What you do while shooting is what you get in the film.”
With regard to the filmmaking strategies used by the team, Vikram went on to explain, “ The film was shot mostly in single takes with all the actors, so we had to be on our toes at all times. As actors, all of us had to be present mentally and physically at all times. There were no chairs on set and the heat was overwhelming. It was such a physically demanding set. The sweat, blood and dirt you see on screen is going to be real. All the actors and technicians had to work relentlessly, scene after scene because that’s the only way we could tell this story truthfully.”