Suriya, Lingusamy & Santosh Sivan to create history

Suriya,
director Lingusamy and cameraman Santosh Sivan is teaming for an action
adventure film produced by Thirrupathy Brothers. For the first time in
the world, cinematographer Santosh Sivan is going to use 'Red Dragon
Digital' camera for the film.
According to a press release from
Thirrupathy Brothers – “The test shoot of Suriya-Lingusamy's untitled
project happened at Prasad Studio. It was attended by the most
fascinating engineers of 'Red Camera' and 'Angenieux Lens'. Following
this film, the camera will be used by chart-topping filmmaker of
Hollywood, Ridley Scott and many others. This indeed is a great
happening in 100 years of Indian Cinema, where Tamil industry will step
ahead to the next level surpassing Hollywood.”
"I want the
technological advancement to first happen in Chennai and this is one
such sign," says cinematographer Santhosh Sivan as he cranked the test
shoot featuring Suriya. "Although the visual medium remains the same,
such advancements in camera results in enhancing the pictorial details",
says Santhosh Sivan, who is handling cinematography for this untitled
film following the grand success of Vijay starrer 'Thuppaki'.
Director Lingusamy is
excited about having a league of fantastic technicians and is excited to
shoot this film with 'Red Dragon'. Shedding light on the film, "I have
been waiting for a very long time to make a film with Suriya.
Post-Vettai, I spent quality time in nurturing this project and crafted
this script. In recent times, there are lots of young filmmakers rocking
in the industry. I have to prepare myself to compete with them. This
film is yet to be titled and we have an excellent team of technicians. I
have been an ardent fan of Santhosh Sivan from the time I watched his
'Thalapathy'. Yuvan Shankar Raja scores music, Rajeevan is the art
director and Anthony is editor. Brindha Saarathy pens dialogues.
Samantha plays the female lead role."
Suriya said, "I am really
privileged to be a part of this project. I have been an admirer of
Santhosh Sivan sir from childhood and its great to know that we are the
first one to use 'Red Dragon' Camera in the entire world and world
famous filmmakers like Ridley Scott are going to use it."