Bhaskar Oru Rascal

Bhaskar Oru Rascal is an upcoming Indian Tamil comedy family drama film written and directed by Siddique. A remake of the director's successful Malayalam film Bhaskar the Rascal (2015), the film features Arvind Swamy and Amala Paul in the lead roles, while Baby Nainika play supporting roles. Featuring music composed by D. Imman, the venture began production in February 2017.

Cast

• Arvind Swamy
• Amala Paul
• Baby Nainika
• Master Raghavan
• Siddique
• Soori
• Ramesh Khanna
• Robo Shankar
• Aftab Shivdasani ^[1]

Production

The success of Siddique's Malayalam film, Bhaskar the Rascal (2015) prompted the makers to consider making a Tamil version, with Ajith Kumar linked to the lead role in late 2015.^[2] After the plans failed to materialise, Siddique began discussions with actor Rajinikanth in early 2016 to play the lead role, but the actor eventually chose not to do the film.^[3] In September 2016, Siddique finalised Arvind Swamy as the male lead and held unsuccessful discussions with Nayanthara and then Sonakshi Sinha to star opposite him.^[4][5] In early 2017, Siddique selected Amala Paul and Nainika to play the other lead roles in the film.^[6][7] For the role a young male actor, the makers initially approached Aarav, the son of actor Jayam Ravi, and then Aahil, the son of actor Srikanth, to star in the film. The pair's refusal meant that Raghavan, who had previously appeared in Sethupathi (2016) and Pa Paandi (2017), was added to the cast.^[8] Siddique revealed that he planned to keep the essence of the original Malayalam film, but would incorporate more action scenes for the Tamil version. Comedy actors including Soori, Ramesh Khanna and Robo Shankar were also drafted in to work on the project.^[9] This is movie is the director's fourth in Tamil after Friends, Engal Anna and Kaavalan. The shoot of the film began in Kochi during early April 2017.^[10] Earlier the release was planned for October 2017, now the plan is to release in September 2017.^[11][12]

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