Vignesh Shivan launches Family Boy first single Theeraaganam
The song is a love melody; the film is a true-incident thriller. And the man behind both directs, produces, stars and wrote the lyrics. Out December 11.
Vignesh Shivan has put his name behind a small film. The director launched Theeraaganam, the first single from Mithun Manickam’s Family Boy, along with its lyrical video. It is a romantic melody composed by Nirmal JP and sung by Adithya RK with Malvi Sundaresan and Aparna Narayanan, which makes it a natural fit for a filmmaker who has written plenty of love songs himself.
Vignesh Shivan knows what it costs to drag a film to the screen; Love Insurance Kompany took him seven years to get into theatres this April. Now he is lending his reach to an actor still building a name, who is doing almost everything on this one himself: Mithun Manickam wrote the song’s lyrics, directs Family Boy, plays its lead and produces it under his own banner, Mechanic Pictures. Muhammad Gani Faisal and Dr K. Arun Arumugam of Millennials Movie Production LLP co-produce.
The lyrical video does not go straight into the song. It opens on a short spoken verse that ties the atom and the cosmos to two lovers and lands on the title word, theeraaganam, an endless moment. The team leans hard on that verse, calling it proof that Mithun Manickam is a talent first spotted by Suriya.
The Suriya connection is real enough. Mithun Manickam made his acting debut as Kunnimuthu in Raame Aandalum Raavane Aandalum, the 2021 village satire Suriya produced under 2D Entertainment, opposite Ramya Pandian. Before that, by his own account, he had spent years as an assistant director. Family Boy is the first time he is fronting a film on every side of the camera.
A gentle love song is an odd opening move for what the makers describe as a family drama action thriller, adapted from a true incident that took place in 2020. The teaser, released earlier, follows the hero over a single day as he hunts for something that has gone missing, with loss and its fallout at the centre. Theeraaganam sits on the other side of that story, the life he stands to lose.
The Family Boy cast includes M. Sukumar, Saran Sudhakaran, Anugraha S. Nambiar, Nikhila Shankar, Anitha Sampath, Pasanga Sivakumar, Shivam, Arul Das and P. L. Thenappan. Karthik K. Kathiravan shot the film, Gijendran V. edited it and C. K. Mujibur Rahman handled art direction. Family Boy releases worldwide in theatres on December 11.
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