Madha Gaja Raja

Madha Gaja raja
Directed by	Sundar C.
Produced by	Gemini Film Circuit Vishal
Written by	Venkat Raghavan Sundar C.
Starring	Vishal Anjali Varalaxmi Sarathkumar Sadha
Music by	Vijay Antony
Cinematography	Richard M. Nathan
Edited by	Praveen K. L. N. B. Srikanth
Production company	Gemini Film Circuit
Distributed by	Vishal Film Factory
Release dates	May 13, 2015 (2015-05-13)
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	200 million (US$3.2 million)

Madha Gaja Raja is an upcoming Tamil Masala film directed by Sundar C. It stars Vishal Krishna, Anjali and Varalaxmi Sarathkumar in the leading roles, while Prakash Raj and Nithin Sathya play other pivotal supporting roles.^[1]

Cast

• Vishal as Madhan, Gaja & Raja
• Anjali as Meena
• Sonu Sood
• Varalaxmi Sarathkumar as Maya
• Sadha
• Manivannan
• Santhanam
• Swarna Prashanth as Mohan Raj
• Nithin Sathya
• Sadagoppan Ramesh
• Prakash Raj
• Subbaraju^[2]
• Gayathri Rao
• Swaminathan
• K. S. Jayalaxmi
• Arya in a special appearance

in a special appearance

• Sundar. C as Narrator
• Vijay as Shakthi

Production

Initially it was announced that Samantha Ruth Prabhu will do this movie.^[3] Hansika Motwani was approached to play the lead female role but could not sign the film due to unavailability of dates.^[4] Later Karthika Nair was signed to essay the character of the love interest of Vishal Krishna, who was said to be playing a triple role for the first time in his career.^[5] Karthika opted out of the project citing that the script had undergone major changes and revealed that Vishal would only play a single role, as well as there being an addition of an extra lead actress. Anjali replaced her in the film and soon after the makers announced that Taapsee Pannu was approached to play one of the two lead female roles.^[6][7][8][9] Varalaxmi has been brought in replacement of Taapsee,^[10] as the latter had some date issues.

Sadha played supporting role, while Prakash Raj and Nithin Sathya were signed on in supporting roles.^[11] Taapsee has opted out of the film and was replaced by Varalakshmi Sarathkumar.^[12][13] Sonu Sood plays a leading industrialist who wants to step into politics to taste power.^[14] Arya has done a cameo in this film.^[15]

Release

The film was scheduled for released on 6 September 2013, along with its Telugu-dubbed version NTR (Nataraja Thaney Raja).^[16] In August 2013, the film's tagline "MGR" was removed, in order to avoid controversies following Thalaiva's problems, with the movie' expected release date moved to March 7, 2014.^[17]

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed by Vijay Antony collaborating with Vishal for second time after Vedi and with Sundar C for first time. Vishal has sung a song named "My Dear Loveru".^[18]

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