Echcharikkai

Echarikkai starts with a backstory of David (Kishore), a 14-year-old young man who kills his sister's husband in front of his 5-year old nephew Thomas (Vivek Rajgopal) after he comes to know that the latter murdered his sister. David asks Thomas to go to prison, but he betrays his uncle, who gets life imprisonment. Years later, Thomas, who is now a petty criminal, and David, who is back from jail, sketch a plan to earn more money. Together, they decide to kidnap Swetha (Varalaxmi), the daughter of wealthy builder Perumal (Jayakumar), and demand a ransom.

Perumal seeks the help of retired cop Nataraj (Sathyaraj), who cannot come out of his house as he needs to take care of his daughter Pia (L. Alice), who has a rare medical condition and requires constant care. How Nataraj cracks the case in his house forms the crux of the story,

After completing his short film Lakshmi, director Sarjun KM approached Producer Sundar Annamalai of Timeline Cinemas with his feature film script. The film fell in place quickly as Varalaxmi and Kishore were frozen for major roles. After a series of auditions, debutant Vivek Rajagopal was selected as the male lead. Prakash Raj was initially supposed to essay the role of Nataraj IPS, but later, the role went to Sathyaraj due to dates issues. Music director K. S. Sundaramurthy, who had done Graghanam and 8 Thottakkal, was signed as the composer for the film. Debut cinematographer Sudarshan Srinivasan and Malayalam editor Karthik Jogesh were signed up for Cinematography and Editing respectively.[2]

The first schedule of filming happened in Sudeshi Mill, Pondicherry in December 2016 where portions involving the lead casts Varalaxmi , Kishore and Vivek were shot for over ten days. The second schedule of the film with Sathyaraj started rolling in March 2017. Following this, portions involving Kishore, Vivek, and Yogi Babu were shot in North Madras. Filming wrapped up by April 2017.[3]

The soundtrack was composed by Sundaramurthy KS.