Karthik Subbaraj

Karthik Subbaraj

Karthik Subburaj, director of Pizza, Jigarthanda and Iraivi has now directed Mercury starring Prabhu Deva in the lead role. Sanath Reddy, Deepak Paramesh and Ramya Nembeesan are also playing major roles in the movie. The movie is filmed by Thiru, music is composed by Santhosh Narayanan and Editing of the movie is done by Vivek Harshan. Karthik Subburaj is making a complete silent movie like Pesum padam (1987) directed by Sangeetham Srinivasa Rao in which Kamal Hassan and Amala in the leading roles. After 30 years of Pesum Padam Karthik Subburaj is making a movie in the same genre. This is the first time Prabhu Deva will be rendering a villianic role in his career. Since Merkuri shooting got wrapped up post production works are going in a quick pace. Director Karthik Subbaraj has announced that his fourth film Mercury, a silent thriller will hit the screens on April 13. "#MERCURY - A silent thriller, My 4th feature film as writer-director is all set to Rise & am so excited to show it to you all..A No-Language film releasing in All languages on Friday the 13th April 2018...@PDdancing @Music_Santhosh @DOP_tirru @penmovies @stonebenchfilms", Karthik Subbaraj has posted on Twitter.