NE ENTERTAINMENT BUREAU
CHENNAI, JUNE 19
After the successfull streaming of “Pon Magal Vanthaal” in OTT Platform by Amazon Prime Video on May 29, the company released the national awarde Keerthy Suresh’s psycho-thriller “Penguin” also features an eerie-looking maskman released on Friday.
Keerthy seen as a pregnant mother who sets out on a dangerous and physically demanding journey to unravel a mystery from her past and save her loved ones. The actress says that initially she thought that the movie was based on music.”The name of my character is Rhythm, so I thought it was going to be a musical. In fact, there aren’t many songs in the film,” she said.
She might have got the genre wrong at first, but after a narration she was all for it. In interview to a channel, the actor said “Eashvar Karthic (director) had narrated it for four hours or more. But I was glued to it. He is a very good narrator. I loved the script. I was looking for something like this.” After “Mahanati”, I have a strong women-centric role in this film, she said.
Recalling her shoot days, she said, “we shot the film in a record time of 35 days. Something that I had never done before. It was done in a short span of time. We had our own technicians acting in the movie. The lightman and my make-up man were also part of it. It was so much fun.”
There was also a mystery element on sets. “Very few people knew the maskman. That was something interesting. It was very secretive, the mask was never out,” she said about the arch villain of the film.
The psycho-thriller was global premiere on Amazon Prime Video on Friday. The film is a Tamil-Telugu bilingual. Viewers will also have the Malayalam dubbed version option.
“Watching it on a big screen would have been a completely different experience, but considering the situation we have to adapt to it. It’s actually a good thing that I am having a release at this time, during the lockdown. It is also catering to a larger audience and not just a few states in India, so I think it has its own added advantage. I think it’s definitely going to work for the movie,” Keerthy Suresh added.
