Tamil anthology film 'Navarasa' is expected to start streaming in Netflix on August 6. However, an official announcement is awaited. The streaming giant's second major Tamil release in 2021 after Dhanush's 'Jagame Thanthiram', the movie is a charity project conceived by directors Mani Ratnam and Jayendra Panchapakesan.
Both veteran movie filmmakers came together with a team of directors, actors and technicians who agreed to work on the project for free. Earnings from the film will be used to help those impacted during the Covid-19 lockdown.
'Navarasa' is a set of stories based on nine “rasas” or emotions. Directors included in the project are Bejoy Nambiar, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Karthik Subbaraj, Karthick Naren, K.V. Anand, Ponram, Rathindran Prasad and Halitha Shameem. The movie will also see the directorial debut of actor Arvind Swamy.
Actors include Suriya, Vijay Sethupathi, Arvind Swami, Siddharth, Prakash Raj, Saravanan, Alagam Perumal, Revathy, Nithya Menen, Parvathy Thiruvothu and Aishwarya Rajessh will be in the film. Several leading composers including AR Rahman, D Imman, Ghibran and top cinematographers such as Santosh Sivan, Balasubramaniem, Manoj Paramahamsa among others are all part of this pro-bono project.
