Small is the brand new huge in Tamil cinema this yr. A couple of biggies of 2025 may need upset followers, however the relatively-smaller ones preserve giving.
Tourist Family, a film a couple of Sri Lankan household discovering a brand new house in Tamil Nadu, received huge on the field workplace earlier this yr. It additionally stole many hearts for its emotional performances.
3BHK, slated for launch this Friday, hopes to do the identical. Starring Siddharth, Sarath Kumar, Devyani and Meetha Raghunath in lead roles — as a four-member household whose dream is to personal a home — the film’s trailer has had overwhelmingly optimistic feedback, most of which spotlight its emotional and relatable content material.
Director Sri Ganesh avers. “We wanted the audience to respond like this to the film,” says Sri Ganesh, “That such a response has occurred to the trailer itself gives us great joy.”
Directr Sri Ganesh
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Heartful stories
The start line of 3BHK was a brief story written by Aravind Sachidanandam that Sri Ganesh chanced upon just a few years in the past. “It was beautiful and real. It centered around a family wishing to buy a home… the end was poignant. Plotwise, that story has nothing to do with my 3BHK, but the emotion in it stuck a chord with me. I wanted to flesh out an entire life journey from that emotion.”
Produced by Arun Viswa, 3BHK’s central core is how shopping for a dream house takes a whole lifetime for just a few households, just like the one showcased within the film. “For some, it defines their entire life; either they have to spend their entire lives planning for it, or shelling out EMI,” says Sri Ganesh, whose earlier movies had been Kurudhi Aatam and 8 Thotakkal.
Does it hassle him that right this moment’s audiences, used to watching movies on OTT platforms from the comforts of their drawing rooms, are visiting theatres lately looking for a visible spectacle? “The big screen is not only for visual spectacles. I feel we go for an emotional experience; it can be an action, comedy or a feel-good film. While technical aspects are important, for a film like 3BHK, we would have achieved what we set out to do if you walk out of the theatre full of emotion,” says Sri Ganesh, who describes director Vikraman’s 1997 film Suryavamsam as ‘life-defining’, other than choosing Vaanathaipola and Anandham as his favorite Tamil feel-good motion pictures.
3BHK has a robust technical crew, with cinematographers Dinesh Krishnan B and Jithin Stanislaus, and artwork director Vinoth Rajkumar including worth. Also including power is younger music composer Amrit Ramnath’s tunes. “When we started designing this album, we wanted to do something like 96. It was a soulful album, a result of thinking purely about the music and beyond what is trending on Reels,” he says.
Sri Ganesh’s early inspirations had been comedian-actor Crazy Mohan – he has labored on the units of some performs of the playwright – and director Mysskin – he has watched Nandalala a number of instances and assisted the filmmaker. He was additionally part of Naalaya Iyakkunar, the favored TV programme that nurtured many current-day filmmakers. “I have evolved a lot as a writer in the last few years. When I did my debut film 8 Thotakkal in 2017, I wrote it as a fast-paced thriller because I was anxious to get the attention of audiences. Now, I am confident that I can hold audiences with just emotions and drama. My aim is to tell heartful stories.”
Siddharth, Sarath Kumar, Devayani and Meetha Raghunath in a nonetheless from ‘3BHK’
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‘Cinema is a writer’s medium’
Actor Siddharth’s largest problem in 3BHK was to be a particular individual from begin to end with out catering to business necessities. “My most exciting performances are playing a flesh-and-blood hero and the challenge there is to stay in character throughout. Like the lows and highs of Eswaran in my previous film Chittha, in 3BHK, Prabhu has to travel through different time periods. We hope people see Prabhu exactly the way director Sri Ganesh has written it,” says Siddharth, who has additionally sung a track within the film.
The actor describes this Friday as one of the vital essential weeks in Tamil cinema, with each director Ram’s Paranthu Po and 3BHK hitting screens. “It’s amazing that both of us have made happy, feel-good films. 3BHK helped me reminisce and remember a lot of my life and helped me understand about my co-actors’ lives. Cinema is a writer’s medium. I want Sri Ganesh to win big, so that we can judge the size of films based on quality of the script as opposed to the budget.”
