Varalaxmi Sarathkumar & Santhosh Prathap's Kondraal Paavam to hit screens for summer 2023

Producers Pratap Krishna and Manoj Kumar, who are backing ‘Kondraal Paavam’ starring Varalaxmi Sarathkumar-Santhosh Prathap, have officially confirmed that their upcoming production will have its worldwide theatrical release in Summer 2023. It is worth mentioning that the shooting of Kondraal Paavam was recently wrapped up, and the post-production work is happening in full swing now.
As known earlier, the film is an adaptation of a Kannada play authored by Shri Mohan Habbu. Dayal Padmanabhan, the writer and director of this film, has directed both the original version in Kannada and the Telugu remake of this film. The noteworthy fact is that Allu Aravind produced the Telugu version as an original for the south-based OTT platform that's backed by him.
Varalaxmi Sarathkumar and Santhosh Prathap are playing the lead roles in this movie. Eswari Rao, Charlie, Manobala, Jaya Kumar, Meesai Rajendran, Subramaniam Siva, Imran, Sendrayan, TSR Srinivasan, Yazar, Kavitha Bharathi, Thangadurai, Kalyani Mahadhavi, and others are a part of the star cast.
Besides directing and co-producing this film, Dayal Padmanabhan also shares the credit of writing dialogues along with John Mahendran.
Kondraal Paavam is a crime thriller, the story of which takes place in a single night. “We have set the story in Dharmapuri, and it’s about how a 26-year-old unmarried girl gets caught in a crime web,” the director had told us previously. The film is set in the 1980s and the team had erected a set in 2020 for the film at a studio in Hyderabad. When they decided to start shooting the Tamil version, they chose to film it on the same set, after modifying it to suit Tamil nativity!