Chennaiyil Oru Naal

Chennaiyil Oru Naal
Directed by	Shaheed Kader
Screenplay by	Bobby-Sanjay Ajayan Bala
Story by	Bobby-Sanjay
Produced by	Raadhika Sarathkumar Listin Stephen
Starring	R. Sarathkumar Prakash Raj Cheran Prasanna Raadhika Sarathkumar Parvathi Menon Iniya
Cinematography	Shehnad Jalal
Edited by	Mahesh Narayanan
Music by	Mejo Joseph
Production companies	I Pictures Magic Frames
Distributed by	Sun Pictures
Release date	March 29, 2013 (2013-03-29)
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Chennaiyil Oru Naal (English: A day in Chennai) is a 2013 Tamil thriller film written by brothers Bobby and Sanjay and directed by Shahid Khader. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of R. Sarathkumar, Prakash Raj, Cheran, Prasanna, Raadhika Sarathkumar, Parvathi Menon and Iniya. The film, a remake of the 2011 Malayalam film Traffic, has its narrative in a hyperlink format. A multi-narrative thriller that intertwines multiple stories around one particular incident, the film is inspired from an actual event that happened in Chennai. It was titled Naangu Vazhi Saalai earlier. The film released on 29 March 2013 to positive both from critics and audience.

Cast

• R. Sarathkumar as Sundara Pandian
• Prakash Raj as Gautham Krishna
• Cheran as Satyamoorthy
• Prasanna as Dr. Robin
• Raadhika Sarathkumar
• Parvathi Menon as Aditi
• Iniya as Swetha
• Mithun as Ajmal
• Sachin as Karthik
• Aishwarya Devan
• Vaishali
• Gabriella Charlton as Ria
• Jayaprakash
• Lakshmy Ramakrishnan
• Rohini
• Mallika
• Manobala
• Santhana Bharathi
• Subbu Panchu
• Suriya in a cameo appearance

Production

At the hundredth day celebrations of the 2011 Malayalam film Traffic, Kamal Haasan, who was the chief guest at the ceremony announced that he would remake the film into Tamil while Rajesh Pillai would be the film's director. However due to his extended involvement in his directorial venture, Haasan opted out of the film by November 2011 and R. Sarathkumar was subsequently chosen to replace him in the film, with the director also postponing the film, mentioning it would restart after the Hindi version was complete. Soon the actor's wife, Raadhika Sarathkumar, also joined the film and agreed to produce the venture alongside Listin Stephen. Actors including Prakash Raj, Cheran, Prasanna and Nassar were slated to play key roles, while Remya Nambeesan was signed on to reprise her role from the original. In March 2012, Rajesh Pillai walked out the remake citing date issues and was replaced by his assistant Shaheed Khader. Prithviraj was approached to play one of the lead roles in the film but refused the opportunity citing date issues.

The film was officially launched on June 21, 2012 with Raadhika subsequently listing out the members of the cast on her Twitter page. She also went on to confirm that Parvathi Menon would make a comeback to Tamil cinema with her role in the venture.