


Even before release, the film faced a couple of issues and I had to screen it for eight members from the Producers' council. I'd never seen Yuvan in such an emotional state before and that told me that the climax reached. After searching for him for a while, I saw him standing between a van and a wall, and he was crying. But after the film ended, I couldn't spot him. He meddled with his phone in the first half at times and just said 'okay ji' during the intermission. I wanted the film to be a step better than Sethu and I'm glad it was.Īfter the film was shot, I played the film to Yuvan Shankar Raja for the music. That's when I narrated Paruthiveeran's one liner to him along with the climax. We were startled by how a film can affect the audience, and Sasi asked if we can come up with such a film. Sasikumar and I were assistant directors back then and after a screening of Sethu in Madurai, we saw a woman come out, only to sit down on the ground and cry profusely. " Paruthiveeran's climax was not conceived during the scripting stage, but much earlier, when Sethu (1999) was released, in fact.
