Radiopetti (transl. Radio Set) is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Hari Viswanath, starring Ramanujam TVV and Lakshmanan Koratur.[2][3]
Radiopetti is the story of a 70-year-old man, partially deaf and is extremely fond of the valve radio, a gift by his dad when he was a child and he sees his dad through the radio. He became psychologically disturbed when this radio is lost [12]
Cast
Lakshmanan as Arunachalam
Ramanujam TVV as Subramani
Shobana Mohan as Lakshmi
Nivas Adithan as Saravanan
Baby Maya as Tharshini
Master Rohan as Ashwin
Production
Development
Hari Viswanath, a civil engineer by profession explained that the idea of making this film struck him only when he saw an old man, who couldn't hear well walking through the street as nobody paid attention to him. This made Viswanath thinking about the lives of elderly people and his own grandfather who always turn on his Murphy Radio as a routine affair. The radio tune signalled all activities of grandfather as well as Viswanath like praying, reading, going to school, time to eat and so on. Viswanath felt the agony of him when he just thought of losing the radio one day and felt the pain on how he will manage after losing the radio. Viswanath decided to mix this fictional thoughts and real experience into a film and thus Radiopetti began its journey.[1][2][10]
Casting
Viswanath signed stage artiste Lakshmanan to play the lead role, Nivas Adithan, who has earlier done Ula and Kaaka Muttai, Shobana Mohan and TVV Ramanujam in important roles. Lakshmanan has already played the lead role in Viswanath's short film Idukkan.[1][2][10]
Filming
Radiopetti was shot in Pondicherry and completed in a 15 days schedule within a budget of one crore.[1][10]
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