{"id":153350,"date":"2025-09-19T01:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153350\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T01:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:58:13","slug":"venkat-prabhu-praises-atharvaas-thanal-says-it-reminded-him-of-saroja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153350\/","title":{"rendered":"Venkat Prabhu praises Atharvaa\u2019s Thanal, says it reminded him of Saroja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Venkat Prabhu addressed the media recently and spoke highly of Atharvaa\u2019s film <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemaexpress.com\/topic\/thanal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thanal<\/a>, directed by Ravindra Madhava. The GOAT director shared that the film, set over the course of a night, reminded him of his 2008 feature Saroja. He praised the work of director Ravindra and all the actors, with a special note of Atharvaa and Ashwin Kakumanu\u2019s performances. \u201cEvery character has done really well,\u201d Venkat said before praising all the technical departments, notably music, action, editing, and camera. He gave a shout out to cinematographer Sakthi Saravanan&#8217;s work in Thanal. Interestingly, Sakthi Saravanan also collaborated with Venkat Prabhu on Saroja.<\/p>\n<p>The film follows a former soldier who sets off on a quest for revenge. Proving an obstacle to him is a cop with a past that has helped forge him into a man with a strong sense of duty. Their paths collide, forcing the constable to choose between self preservation and strong action against the army man. Lavanya Tripathi, Bose Venkat, Sha Ra, Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli, and Azhagam Perumal are also part of the film\u2019s cast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Venkat Prabhu addressed the media recently and spoke highly of Atharvaa\u2019s film Thanal, directed by Ravindra Madhava.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[102643,64,63,134,102645,344,102644,102642],"class_list":["post-153350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-atharvaa","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-goat-director","tag-movies","tag-thanal","tag-venkat-prabhu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}