Amudhavanan George Vijay Nelson R. V. Satheesh Yoganand Alya Manasa
Cinematography
K. A. Rowin Baskar
Edited by
Sharan Shanmugam V.A. Mazhai Dassan
Music by
Raghu Sravan Kumar
Production companies
Kaaviya Cinemas Reach Media Solutions
Release date
7 April 2017 (2017-04-07)
Country
India
Language
Tamil
Julieum 4 Perum (transl. Julie and Four People) is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film written and directed by R. V. Satheesh. The film features Amudhavanan, George Vijay Nelson, R. V. Satheesh, Yoganand, and Alya Manasa in the lead roles, while Mahanadi Shankar and Jaguar Thangam play supporting roles. The music was composed by Raghu Sravan Kumar with cinematography by K. A. Rowin Bhaskar. The film began production during early 2016 and was released on 7 April 2017.[1]
R. V. Satheesh left his corporate job in the USA to attempt to make it as a film maker in Tamil cinema and trained under R. Parthiepan. The director revealed that the film would revolve around a "dognapping" and would focus on the situational comedy of the incident, with his dog named Lucky playing a pivotal role.[2] The idea for the film was based upon the widespread dognapping which hard occurred in California during 2014.[3] Television actor Amudhavanan was selected to play a leading role, while George Vijay Nelson, previously seen in Mani Ratnam's Kadal (2013) and Balaji Mohan's Maari (2015), was also picked for a lead role.[4]
The film's music was composed by Raghu Sravan Kumar, while the audio rights of the film was acquired by Trend Music South. The album released on 5 September 2016 and featured five songs.
The film opened on 7 April 2017 across Tamil Nadu alongside Mani Ratnam's Kaatru Veliyidai. The Times of India wrote "right from the writing to the filmmaking, this film has amateurishness written all over it" and that "every scene is so silly, infantile and preposterous (all in a bad way) that we keep wondering how someone felt that this could be a movie".[6] A critic from The New Indian Express wrote "a small budgeted film, the production values are low and this is evident throughout" but added it is "mildly amusing, what the film needed was a screenplay that had more punch and fizz in it" and "at the most, Julieum… is a promising effort by a debutant maker".[7]
