Santa Maria is an upcoming Malayalam and Tamil film directed by Gautham Ramachandran and written by Rakshit Shetty. A remake of the Kannada film Ulidavaru Kandanthe (2014), the film stars Nivin Pauly, Natarajan Subramaniam and Shraddha Srinath in the lead roles. The movie also stars Ashok Selvan, Shraddha Srinath, Lakshmi Priya Chandramouli, Prakash Raj etc essaying pivotal characters.
The movie was tentatively titled as Santa Maria, but now the title has been changed to Avargal. The Malayalam version will still have the title Santa Maria. Title for the Tamil verison was changed from Santa Maria to Avargal for tax exemption purposes.
Avargal has popular cinematographer/actor Natarajan Subramanian aka Natty and Rakshit Shetty playing the lead roles along with Nivin Pauly.
This is Nivin Pauly’s third film after the bilingual Neram and a small part he played in the anthology Avial (Eli segment).
After the sensational success of Premam, Nivin Pauly became hugely popular among the Tamil audience especially the youngsters. He has also signed for some other projects in Tamil, one under director Atlee’s debut production and another movie Suriya Balakrishna.
Rumours are also doing the rounds that Gautham Vasudev Menon is in talks with Nivin Pauly for the Tamil remake of the Telugu blockbuster Pelli Choopulu, the remake rights for which was acquired by the director recently.
Nivin Pauly’s next releases in Malayalam will be Njandukalude Naattil Oridavela which he is also producing and Sakhavu directed by Sidhartha Siva.
Avargal | Santa Maria Cast and Crew
Hero: Nivin Pauly
Heroine: Shraddha Srinath
Director: Gautham Ramachandran
Producers: Anand Kumar, Vinod Shornur
Story: Rakshit Shetty
Music: Ajneesh Lokhnath
Cinematography: S Pandit Kumar
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