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Harishankar Narayanan plays a romantic lead in Neeyum Naanum

Shot from Goa to Chitkul and released in Tamil and Malayalam, Sharry's indie music video plays like a short film, twist at the end included.

Harishankar Narayanan and Suja Sukumar on a Jaipur rooftop, looking up at the sky, in a still from Neeyum Naanum
Usually the villain, Harishankar plays a man who cannot speak or hear and crosses the country to grant his lover's wishes.

Harishankar Narayanan, more often seen as a villain in Label, Kattalan, Dorothy and Sirai, plays a romantic lead in Neeyum Naanum, a bilingual indie music video directed by Sharry. It is out on Saregama in Tamil as Neeyum Naanum and in Malayalam as Neeyum Njaanum.

Sharry, who also goes by Charan, directed the thriller Naduvan and acted in films including Inidhu Inidhu. This is the first indie project he and Harishankar have made together, and it grew out of their own travels: the couples they met on the road and the love stories they saw along the way.

The story follows a young man who cannot speak or hear, travelling with his girlfriend to every place she has wanted to see. Suja Sukumar plays her. The team shot across Chennai, Bengaluru, Goa, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Shimla, Sangla and Chitkul, framing it like a feature rather than a standard music video, and the makers promise a twist at the end.

Yuthishtran E composed the song, and Hanan Shaah and Nihal Sadiq sang it. Hidden Talent Studios produced.

The Neeyum Naanum team on the road during the shoot

The Malayalam version, Neeyum Njaanum, is out on Saregama Malayalam.

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