Mani Ratnam’s film helps 10K People

Ace directors Mani Ratnam and Jayendra Panchapakesan of Qube Cinema have now joined hands to present a Tamil film anthology titled ‘Navarasa’ which is a nine-part series. The series is all set to premiere on the OTT platform Netflix soon.

The filmmakers have announced that part of the income from the series will be given to workers in the Tamil film industry who have been struggling without any income over the last few months due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Also, the directors associated with the project haven’t taken any remuneration. “The support from the film will reach over 10,000 deserving beneficiaries across the industry. To identify and reach all the beneficiaries, we have selected director RK Selvamani as the president of the Film Employees Federation of South India [FEFSI],” mentioned Mani Ratnam and Jayendra.

On the other hand, the anthology is based on the Indian concept of the nine human emotions. Gautham Menon, Bejoy Nambiar, Karthick Naren, Karthik Subbaraj, Ponram, KV Anand, Halitha Shameem and Rathindran R Prasad will be directing each of the nine episodes. Touted to be a mix of all the genres, the anthology stars Suriya, Revathi, Nithya Menen, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Aishwarya Rajesh, Arvind Swami, Suriya, Siddharth, Vijay Sethupathi, Prakash Raj, Prasanna, Gautham Karthik, Ashok Selvan, Poorna, Riythvika, Robo Shankar, Ramesh Thilak and Sananth. Music directors like AR Rahman, D Imman, Ghibran, Arul Dev, Karthik, Ron Ethan, Govind Vasantha and Justin Prabhakaran also worked on the project along with the cinematographers PC Sreeram, Santosh Sivan, Balasubramaniam, Manoj Paramahamsa, Abinandhan Ramanujam, Shreyas Krishna, Harshvir Oberai, Sujith Sarang, V Babu, Viraj Singh.