Debutant
Tamil
director
Prabhu
Raja
Cholan
says
the
source
of
inspiration
for
his
upcoming
romantic-comedy
Karuppampatti
is
a
newspaper
article.
He
says
he
developed
the
story
with
commercial
elements
infused
in
facts
from
the
article.
"The
basic
knot
of
the
story
is
inspired
from
a
newspaper
article.
It
was
recently
that
I
read
an
article
about
a
foreigner
coming
to
India
in
search
of
his
familial
roots.
Based
on
this
simple
premise,
I
developed
a
plot
for
the
film," Cholan
told
IANS.
"I
obviously
couldn't
make
a
film
entirely
based
on
the
article
because
of
certain
constraints.
Instead,
I
chose
to
retain
the
crux
of
the
article
in
my
film
and
developed
characters
and
some
commercial
elements
around
it,"
he
added.
He
says
the
film
is
shot
in
three
different
eras.
"Since
the
story
of
the
film
has
a
period
flavour,
we
have
three
different
eras.
The
first
one
is
that
of
the
time
period
before
1980s.
It
is
shot
in
black-and-white
mode.
The
second
one
is
Eastman
colour
era,
and
it
is
here
that
we
have
included
a
Tamil
disco
number
by
Bappi
Lahiri,
while
the
third
is
shot
in
present
day,"
said
Cholan.
"The
story
of
the
film
is
about
an
Indian,
born
and
raised
in
France,
who
comes
to
India
in
search
of
his
roots.
He
arrives
at
a
village
called
Karuppampatti
and
what
happens
there,
forms
the
rest
of
the
story,"
he
said.
The
film
features
Ajmal
Ameer
in
dual
roles
alongside
Piaa
Bajpai
and
Alice
Tantardini.
It
also
stars
Archana,
MS
Bhaskar,
Jagan,
Srinath
and
Devadarshini.
Queried
about
his
choice
of
Bappi
Lahiri
for
a
song
in
the
film,
Cholan
said,
"It
was
a
1980s
disco
number
and
we
wanted
someone
whose
voice
will
also
suit
the
era.
It
is
then
we
zeroed
in
Bappi
sir,
the
disco
king,
who
introduced
the
disco
numbers
into
India."
Sundar
K
has
produced
the
film,
which
has
music
by
Kannan.
It
is
getting
ready
for
release
soon.