''July Kaatril'' () is a 2019 Indian

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film written and directed by KC Sundaram on his directorial debut. The film stars

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and Samyuktha Menon while

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and model Paloma Monnappa in the supportive roles.

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composed music for the film while cinematography is handled by Demel Xavier Edwards.

Plot

This is the story of three people: Rajeev, Shreya and Revathi. Rajeev dates Shreya for sometime without being deeply in love but eventually gets engaged to her. Just before their wedding, he meets Revathi and finds her as the love of his life, and so he breaks up the engagement. Rajeev is now passionately in love with Revathi. Revathi, being an independent and a no-nonsense woman who needs her space, finds Rajeev over-imposing him on her. She feels suffocated and breaks up with him. Now with all the three having had break-ups, the film is about how they move on.

Cast

as Rajeev *

as Shreya *

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as Revathi *

as Murali * Paloma Monnappa as Athena * Sruthi Sai as Poorni * Muthuraman as Subramaniam, Rajeev's father *

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as Shreya's yoga classmate *

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as Natasha * R. Raja as Gautham * Priya as Rajeev's mother * Krishnakumar as Ravichandran, Shreya's father * Nirmala Krishnakumar as Shreya's mother * Subhashree Radhakrishnan as Shreya's sister * Vinod Krishnan as Revathi's father * Vinod Paranthaman as Rajeev's boss * V. G. Balasubramaniam as Revathi's ex-boyfriend * Surya Thangaraj as Vikram * Karthik as Rajeev's colleague * Gokul Raj as Rajeev's friend * Mippu as Restaurant waiter * Raja as Restaurant waiter * Deepan Chakravarthi as Andrew * Shreya Deshpande (special appearance in the song "Kangalin Oramai")

Production

The project was announced in around late 2017 as the maiden directorial venture by debutant KC Sundaram, who previously served as an assistant to the late director and cinematographer Jeeva who was known for his works in Tamil including the critically acclaimed 2007 film ''

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''. KC Sundaram who worked as co-director along with Jeeva (until his death in 2007) in ''Unnale Unnale'' film which was initially suggested to be titled as ''July Kaatril'', revealed the film title as ''July Kaatril'' for this project as a tribute to the late director Jeeva who died in 2007. The portions of the film were mostly shot and set in

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and

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. Popular emerging Malayalam actress Samyuktha Menon was roped into play the second female lead in the film.

Soundtrack

The album is composed by

Release

A critic from ''

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'' noted that "Overall, ''July Kaatril'' is a feel-good, breezy romantic film on urban relationships". On the contrary, Thinkal Menon of ''

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'' gave the film a rating of two-and-half out of five stars and stated that "The various romantic relationships lack the required energy and one feels exhausted after a certain point".

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=tt9905796 2019 films Indian romantic comedy films 2019 romantic comedy films Films shot in Chennai Films set in Chennai Films shot in Goa Films set in Goa Films shot in Kodaikanal 2019 directorial debut films Films scored by Joshua Sridhar