Purampokku Movie Stills

Director X S.P.Jhananathan never lags behind in pin pointing the deficiencies in the society through his films. His much expected ‘Purampokku’ produced by UTV Motion Pictures along with Binary pictures with an enviable star cast of Arya, Vijay Sethupathi, Shaam and Karthika is being shot in a rapid pace. Jhananathan had a few points to share on this mega project produced by UTV Motion pictures. ‘Not all confined in prison are guilty. Many of our historical changes made their debut behind the prison doors. People like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and many leaders created history behind iron bars. The names for the principle characters were selected from the Indian history. Arya is named as Balu who was a real legend, born in Madurai and lived in Andhra as a cop later. Karthika is named after Kuyili lieutenant of Velu Nachiyar, she was the freedom fighter who swapped herself to be a human bomb to destroy the Britons arm godown. Shaam was named Macualy who designed the education system and punishment rules of the British regime. Vijay Sethupathi is named Yamalingam, an absolute brat of a character. The efforts of my principle technicians Ekambaram the cameraman, and the Art director Selvakumar has ensured a fabulous journey of shooting schedule in the prison sets which were erected in the City. The support of UTV in fulfilling the requirement of the technical team has been tremendous’ concluded the director known for his candid views..S.P. JHANANATHAN.