Bruce Lee (2016 film)

Bruce Lee
Film poster
Directed by	Prashanth Pandiraj
Produced by	J.Selvakumar P. Ravichandran G. Vittal Kumar
Written by	Prasanth Pandiraj
Starring	G.V. Prakash Kumar Kriti Kharbanda
Music by	G. V. Prakash Kumar Ganeshan Sekar
Cinematography	P. V. Shankar
Edited by	Pradeep E Ragav G. Manoj Gyann
Production company	Kenanya Films PK Film Factory
Distributed by	Linga Bharani Creation
Release dates	2016
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Bruce Lee is an upcoming Tamil action-comedy film written and directed by Prasanth Pandiraj, starring G. V. Prakash Kumar and Kriti Kharbanda in the leading roles, the film being the latter's first straight Tamil film. The film began production during July 2015 and will release in 2016.^[1][2]

Cast

• G. V. Prakash Kumar as Gemini Ganesan (a) Bruce lee
• Kriti Kharbanda as Saroja devi (a) Saro
• Rajendran
• Bala Saravanan
• Aathma Patrick
• Ramdoss
• Anandaraj
• Mansoor Ali Khan

Production

The project was first announced in June 2015, when G. V. Prakash Kumar had agreed to work with Prashanth Pandiraj on an action comedy film to be produced by Kenanya Films.^[3] The title of the film was changed in July 2015 from Baasha Engira Anthony to Bruce Lee, after the makers failed to acquire the relevant permission to use the title from the makers of Baashha(1995).^[4][5] During October 2015, the film had a brief legal tussle with the makers of the Telugu film of the same, Bruce Lee (2015), after they dubbed and released their film in Tamil as Bruce Lee 2. The team of the Tamil production, Bruce Lee, were unable to prevent the release of the Telugu version or its dubbed Tamil version.^[6]

Samantha and then Trisha were approached to play the leading female role, but their unavailability meant that Kriti Kharbanda, who also appeared in the Telugu Bruce Lee, was signed on to make her debut in Tamil films.^[7][8] The team held a photoshoot in October 2015, with Kriti revealing that her and Prakash would portray college students.^[9] Production subsequently began later that month, with the makers targeting a release date in early 2016.^[10]

Soundtrack

G. V. Prakash Kumar composed the songs, Arunraja Kamaraj, Mani kandan, Vairachandran, Gana Vinoth wrote the lyrics. Lahari Music released the album on 20 October 2016.

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