Karthik Subbaraj’s much-awaited ‘Mercury’ trailer is out! And boy, the film appears to be promising in terms of its content. As reported, the trailer was launched by a host of celebrities like AR Rahman, Dulquer Salmaan, Nithin and Rakshit Shetty on Twitter.
The WORLD PREMIERE of our film, MERCURY,happens in Los Angeles this Thursday, April 12th at the prestigious @IFFLA!Get your tickets now before they run out! Tickets: https://t.co/LfuKEjXBqE
Show time: 9:15 pm
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Going by the trailer, the film has impressive visuals.
Though the clip doesn’t reveal much of the story, it looks like ‘Mercury’ revolves around a bunch of youngsters stuck at an isolated place in Kodaikanal. Apparently, the film is based on the infamous Kodaikanal mercury poisoning. The highlight of the trailer is the haunting background score by Santhosh Narayanan.
Jointly produced by Stone Bench Films and Pen Movies, ‘Mercury’ is scheduled for a worldwide release on April 13.
However, the Tamil version of the film will not release in Tamil Nadu owing to the ongoing Kollywood strike. ‘Mercury’ has a strong technical team, which has the National Award-winning cinematographer Thiru and music composer Santhosh Narayanan among others.
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— PEN INDIA LTD. (@PenMovies) April 9, 2018
A few seconds into the trailer, we see a car and with its backlight blinking. Suddenly, it shakes too dangerously. However, don’t let your imagination run wild. Soon enough, we see a lungi and shirt-clad man inside this factory, screeching and howling, as he tries to pull his hair. Somewhere through the trailer, we see a side profile of Prabhudeva — face bloodied, wild expression in the eyes that have a hint of blue.
It’s a dark, dark night during the trailer, which never seems to end.
This Karthik Subbaraj film will release in four languages. At its heart is Prabhudeva’s character, angry and full of rage, in what looks like, like a person possessed. The other cast includes Sananth, Indhuja, Deepak Paramesh, Shashank Purushotham and Anish Padmanabhan.
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Apart from direction, Subbaraj has written the story and screenplay.
The film has music by Santhosh Narayanan, while the cinematography has been handled by S Thirunavukkarasu.
After Siddharth’s Aval in Tamil (The House Next Door in Hindi and Gruham in Telugu), here’s another one in the horror flick genre. Incidentally, it comes more than 30 years after Kamal Haasan’s masterly act in the other silent film of Indian cinema, Pushpak Vimana (1987).
