Richie Movie Official First Look Out - Nivin Pauly | Natarajan | Rakshit Shetty | Gautham R

Actor Nivin Pauly's Richie Movie first look from his Tamil film, Richie was out on social media. Richie is the Tamil remake of 2014 Kannada super hit film Ulidavaru Kandanthe, which was written and directed by Rakshit Shetty.

It is a crime drama that revolves around a mysterious murder of a person during a village festival. A journalist tries to piece together the incidents that lead to the death of a person through five different people, with each one narrating his own version of the incident. The film got a positive response from fans and the media alike.

Richie has a solid star cast including Nivin, Natarajan Subramaniam, Ashok Selvan, Shraddha Srinath, Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli, Prakash Raj among others. Nivin is hugely popular in Tamil Nadu, thanks to his cult hit Premam.

The film also marks the straight entry of Nivin Pauly into Tamil cinema. In 2012, Gautham Ramachandran met Nivin Pauly and the pair began discussing the idea of making a bilingual film. They developed several story lines but then chose to purchase the remake of rights of Rakshit Shetty's Kannada film Ulidavaru Kandanthe (2014), after being impressed with the script. Gautham began working on the script during June 2015 and revealed that nearly 40 drafts were made as he changed the screenplay of the original to fit in with the Tamil milieu. Nivin Pauly had also worked closely with Gautham on scripting the Tamil version, with the pair dropping their initial plans of making it a bilingual venture in Malayalam too. In April 2015, Gautham denied that Varalaxmi Sarathkumar had been signed on as the lead actress.

Natarajan Subramaniam joined the team to play another leading role, after the team had considered casting other actors including Sasikumar. Gautham revealed that Natarajan was eventually chosen because they wanted an actor who did not carry any particular image. Kannada actress Shraddha Srinath was signed on to play the leading female role opposite Nivin, while Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli and Elango Kumaravel were signed on to portray supporting roles as members of a fishermen community. Veteran producer G. K. Reddy, the father of actor Vishal, was signed on to play a supporting role in the film during the first schedule.

The film began the first schedule of its shoot in Tuticorin during early June 2016. Previously the movie was titled as Santa Maria and then the name is changed to Avargal however it was titled as Richie.

RICHIE MOVIE

CAST:

Nivin Pauly as Richie

Shobith Rdx as small Richie

Natarajan Subramaniam

Shraddha Srinath

Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli

Prakash Raj

Aadukalam Murugadoss

Ashwin Kumar

G. K. Reddy

Priyanka Kumar

CREW:

Directed by : Gautham Ramachandran

Written by : Rakshit Shetty

Produced by : Anand Kumar & Vinod Shornur

Screenplay by : Rakshit Shetty (Original) & Gautham Ramachandran (Adapted screenplay)

Story by : Rakshit Shetty

Music by : B. Ajaneesh Loknath

Cinematography : Pandi Kumar S

Edited by : Athul Vijay