Chennai: One of South India’s fastest rising actors, Arjun Das, who plays the lead along with Aditi Shankar in director Vignesh Srikanth’s much awaited Tamil romantic drama ‘Once More‘, has now disclosed how the film’s director Vignesh Srikanth firmly stood by his decision to make this film only with him despite receiving several offers from production companies that offered to produce this film if the director chose to replace him with another hero.
Participating in the trailer launch event of the film that was held recently, Arjun Das said, “A long time ago, Srikanth came to me with this film’s line. A common friend of ours called director Surya Narayan had introduced us. The line that Srikanth narrated was very beautiful.”
The actor then went on to share details of how the director was a man of his words and how he turned down offers from several production houses that said they would produce the film if the hero was changed.
“When Srikanth spoke here, he said that I was the first hero to whom he had narrated this story. But what he did not tell you here was that he had pitched this story to many production companies and how many production companies had told him, ‘We can cast another hero.'”
Arjun Das then went on to disclose what Srikanth, despite waiting for a long time for a producer, had told those production houses that had suggested replacing him in the film. “To all those production companies, the only thing Srikanth said was ‘No, I will do it (this film) with Arjun Das.’,” the actor disclosed.
Arjun Das then went on to explain how director Srikanth met producer Yuvaraj, who was as excited about this film as the director and how then this project materialised.
For the unaware, the film is to hit screens worldwide on August 28 this year.
The film, which features Arjun Das and Aditi Shankar in the lead, will also feature model turned actress Sona Olickal in a pivotal role.
The film has been in the news for a number of reasons. Most significantly, the film will mark the Tamil debut of celebrated Malayalam music director Hesham Abdul Wahab, who is best known for his chartbuster songs in films like ‘Hridayam’ and ‘Hi Nanna’.
‘Once More’ has a brilliant technical team backing it up. Cinematography for the film is by gifted cameraman Aravind Viswanathan. Editing for the film has been handled by Nash while Raj Kamal has helmed the department of art direction.
Lyrics for the songs, a couple of which have already emerged chartbusters, are by Vignesh Srikanth. Costumes in the film have been designed by Navadevi Rajkumar while dances in the film have been choreographed by Apsar. The film has had its sound design handled by Renjith Venugopal while Arun Sangameshwar has performed the duties of a colorist.
Harish Durairaj has served as the film’s executive producer while Vijay MP has played the role of the creative producer in this unit.
The film has been produced by Yuvaraj Ganesan under the banner of Million Dollar Studios.