Katrina Kaif and Vijay Sethupathi will soon be seen in ‘Merry Christmas’
Accordingly sriram raghavan says his upcoming thriller “Merry Christmas”, starring katrina kaif and Vijay Sethupathi, is set in the early ’80s and shares a thematic connection with the story of “Pinocchio”. Raghavan, regarded as the master of the thriller genre in India, returns to direction with the film after 2016’s hit “Andhadhun” and hopes the audiences engage with the story that unfolds within a span of one night. It will hit the screens on january 12.
The trailer of “Merry Christmas” shows the two central characters walking past a theatre showing the children’s classic “Pinocchio”, about the titular wooden puppet whose nose grows longer when he lies. “We have not specified the time but it is set in the early ’80s. ‘Pinocchio’ has many movie versions so we decided to design our own version of the ‘Pinocchio’ poster. We haven’t shown the movie on screen, you will only hear the soundtrack. So, thematically it’s very much like our film because it is about deception. When Pinocchio tells lies, his nose gets longer,” Raghavan told PTI in an interview.
The filmmaker said it was challenging to cut the trailer of the hindi film as he wanted to create intrigue about the plot of the movie, which he shot simultaneously in Tamil. “The hindi trailer was more fun because it’s got these quick cuts. The whole aim was to not give away the story and make viewers think of their own stories so that when they come to the cinema hall, they’re surprised. Occasionally, one of them will be right too,” he said.