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CinemaSnippets: Bala’s inability to stick to schedule prompted Suriya’s exit from Vanangaan?

Bala is known for several retakes, change in characters, and scrapping of shot portions; Shradhha Srinath-Rohni’s Witness to steam on Sony LIV; Nayanthara's 'Connect' inTelugu

Ayyappa Prasad

Published Dec 05, 2022 | 6:00 PM ⚊ Updated Dec 05, 2022 | 6:00 PM

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Bala's iinability to stick to schedules is said to be reason behind Suriya's exit from 'Vanangaan'. (Twitter)

Director Bala, in a statement, said that Suriya was upset with the decision of removing him from the project Vanangaan. But the decision was taken as a big brother and after keeping the best interests of the younger brother’s career in view, he claimed.

“The changes to the role would not suit Suriya and so the movie Vanangaan will move forward without him.” This was the statement issued by Bala through his PR agency Done One Media.

Interestingly, the news was much expected in film circles. But the surprise element was that Bala announced it and not the production company – 2D Entertainment – which is owned by Suriya.

However, later in the night, 2D Entertainment reproduced Bala’s letter and said that “they were accepting the decision of the ‘elder brother’ with folded hands”.

The announcement came as only a confirmation of the many reports that came from the locations of the film about director Bala and Suriya’s clash.

Even at the recent function of a film’s trailer release, Bala laughed off the news of the rift as speculation saying: “It is between you (media) and me that the rift is happening.”

Reschedules and retakes

Bala is known to not keep to the schedule and is prone to mood swings. Several retakes, change in characters, and scrapping of shot portions are the mainstay of Bala’s film shooting.

Producers, technicians and actors who earlier worked with him spoke about these issues several times.

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Suriya is no more part of Bala’s ‘Vanangaan’. (Twitter)

Pithamagan was the film that gave Suriya a lifetime role and also won him critical acclaim. When Suriya’s actor-wife Jyotika acted in Naachiyaar directed and produced by Bala, the talk was that Suriya and Bala would reunite.

Soon, on Suriya’s birthday, an announcement came that the Pithamagan team was coming together after 18 years.

Suriya, who has several projects in his kitty, reportedly told Bala about the need to stick to schedules. However, this did not take place and finally, an exasperated Suriya decided to pack up.

For Bala, this is the second time that his professional integrity is getting challenged. He was roped in to launch Vikram’s son Dhruv in the remake of the super-hit Telugu film Arjun Reddy.

However, Vikram and the producer jointly scrapped the project and had it reshot with another director. Incidentally, Vikram got National Award as the best actor for his role in Pithamagan.

Shraddha Srinath, Rohni’s Witness to steam on Sony LIV

Witness, a film with showcases the lives of conservancy workers, will be streamed on Sony LIV on 9 December.

The project marks the entry of the Telugu film production house, People Media Factory in Tamil.

The banner is famous for projects like Baby, Goodachari, Venky Mama, Kudi Yedamaithe, Raja Raja Chora and Bloody Mary.

Witness is directed by Deepak who also cranks the camera. The movie portrays the life of a 20-year-old conservancy worker who dies while cleaning a septic tank in a city’s apartment complex.

Rohini who plays the youth’s mother fights for compensation and gets into a tussle with the underworld of the city.

Shraddha Srinath, known for her powerful roles in U-Turn, Jersey, Krishna and Vikram Vedha, appears as an architect who backs the mother’s fight for justice.

Muthuvel and JP Sanakya wrote the screenplay. Philomin Raj is the editor. Ramesh Tamilmani is the music director.

Nayanthara’s Connect in Telugu

The Telugu dubbed version of Nayanthara’s latest horror film Connect will be distributed by UV creations. The banner recently produced Prabhas’ Saaho and Radhe Shyam.

UV creations confirmed the news in a tweet.

Connect was directed by Ashwin Saravanan. It was produced jointly by Vignesh Shivan and Nayanthara’s Rowdy Pictures.

The Telugu version has been censored with a U/A certificate and has a 99-minute runtime. Due to the short duration, the movie has no interval. It is releasing in theatres on 22 December.

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