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Directed by | Kamal Hassan |
Produced by |
Viswanathan Ravichandran Ekta Kapoor (Hindi) Shobha Kapoor (Hindi) |
Written by |
Kamal Haasan Atul Tiwari |
Starring |
Kamal Haasan Rahul Bose Pooja Kumar Andrea Jeremiah Shekhar Kapur Waheeda Rehman |
Music by | Ghibran |
Cinematography |
Sanu Varghese Shamdat Sainudeen |
Edited by | Mahesh Narayanan |
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Distributed by | Viswanathan Ravichandran |
Release date
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Country | India |
Language |
Tamil Hindi |
Vishwaroopam II (titled Vishwaroop II in Hindi) is an upcoming Indian spy thriller film simultaneously being made in Tamil and Hindi language. Written and directed by Kamal Haasan, it is the sequel to Vishwaroopam (2013) and features himself alongside Rahul Bose, Pooja Kumar and Andrea Jeremiah, reprising their roles. While the first film was set in the United States, Vishwaroopam II is set to take place in India.
Produced by Venu Ravichandran in Tamil, the film is also being produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor in Hindi as Vishwaroop II. The film is in its post-production stage and is scheduled for an early 2017 release.
The film will be set in India. Kamal has earlier stated that the second part will be laced with a strong mother-son sentiment. He stated that 40% of the film was shot during the making of part one itself. While part 1 was a little over 2 hours 20 minutes, the sequel's length will be less than 2 hours.
Due to personal reasons, cinematographer Sanu Varghese opted out of Vishwaroopam II and was replaced by Shamdat Sainuddeen.Ghibran was signed up to compose the music. Haasan has added Waheeda Rahman and Anant Mahadevan for the sequel in addition to the main cast.
The shooting of Vishwaroopam II started in Thailand and the team shot scenes at the Bangkok airbase. There was a sequence where actors defuse bombs and engage enemies in a gun battle underwater which was done by the actors themselves after training in scuba diving . The Chennai schedule of the film started on 13 June, 2013. It was also reported that an underwater fight sequence involving Kamal Haasan has been shot by stunt director Ramesh in the second week of October 2016.