Maaran is the title of actor Dhanush’s 43rd film, the production house, Sathya Jyothi Films, announced while releasing a first look poster from the film on the occasion of the actor’s 38th birthday, on Wednesday.
The film, written and directed by filmmaker Karthick Naren, will be his maiden collaboration with Dhanush. It is backed by Sendhil Thyagarajan and Arjun Thyagarajan under the Sathya Jyothi Films production banner, which has earlier produced the Dhanush starrers Thodari (2016) and Pattas (2020). Maaran is co-produced by G Saravanan and Sai Siddharth.
Besides Dhanush, the film will also feature actor Malavika Mohanan, who was last seen in the Tamil film Master (2021), as the female lead and actors Samuthirakani, Smruthi Venkat, Krishna Kumar, and Mahendran in pivotal roles. GV Prakash is the music composer for Maaran.
The film, which was announced by the makers in February 2020 through a poster, went on floors in January 2021. However, production later came to a halt due to the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Soon after the release of Dhanush’s Jagame Thandhiram in June, the actor flew to the US to shoot for Russo Brothers’ The Gray Man. Once the Tamil Nadu government granted permissions for film shootings to begin in the state, in the end of June, the actor returned to the country and the final schedule of shooting for Maaran began in July.
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Meanwhile, Dhanush has a slew of projects lined up. His next film, D44, will be produced by Sun Pictures. He will also be making his Telugu debut in a Sekhar Kammula directorial, a yet-to-be titled trilingual project (Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi). The film will go on floors sometime this year.
Dhanush also has other films in the pipeline, including the Aanand L Rai directorial Atrangi Re, co-starring Akshay Kumar and Sara Ali Khan; a second project with Karnan director Mari Selvaraj; and a sequel to Aayirathil Oruvan directed by his brother Selvaraghavan.