I also wanted the film to have a strong social responsibility and not just criticise politicians. “If I wanted to share my opinion about something, I can do it on any stage,” he said. The film does not just point fingers at the establishment but also offer solutions, Balaji said. When that happened, we decided to integrate it.” For example, the trailer starts with Lalgudi saying he will build a statue of Rs 3,000 crore. “We jotted them down and tried to integrate all of those things in the film. “In the second stage of writing, we started thinking about all of the issues unresolved in the country in the past few years,” Balaji said. The project has been criticised for the massive expense, the alleged environmental damage and the reported displacement of several Adivasi farmers whose lands had been acquired for the project. With that knowledge I charted out a basic structure for the film.”Īmong the recent political events parodied in the trailer are actor Kamal Haasan’s entry into politics and the inauguration of the Statue of Unity, a 182-metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel near the Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat, built at a cost of Rs 3,000 crore. “I used to do film reviews in radio shows and have been part of 25 films. “Since the matches would start in the evening, we would write the film in the afternoon,” he said. I wanted to trace the journey of a small-time politician with traces of comedy.” Also starring Priya Anand, JK Rithesh and Nanjil Sampath, LKG has been produced by Vels Film International and will be released on February 22.īalaji wrote the film along with his friends Muthu Pradeep, Gopi Krishnan, Vicky, Saravanan, Andrews, Sitrarasu and Surendran during his stint as a Tamil commentator at the Indian Premier League in 2018. “I was clear not to make troll or spoof material,” he said. The film, however, does not mock politicians for the sake of it, the actor asserted. That is when I decided to write my own films.”ĭirected by KR Prabhu, LKG, short for Lalgudi Karuppiah Gandhi, uses satire as a prism to examine major political events and trends, from the violence caused by cow fanatics to the jallikattu debate in Tamil Nadu and the use of freebies by politicians to lure voters in the state. But in two years, I would have been irrelevant. “If I wanted to make money, I could have said yes to all of these films. “In 2017 I said no to around 17 films and in 2018 I said no to 13 films,” he said. Only around seven or eight of my roles were great.”Īfter rejecting a string of similar roles, the actor decided to take matters into his hands. “Some of these roles became very boring and I could sense that people too might get bored with my films. “I was often stereotyped as a friend who would just talk about women to the hero or dance in a wine shop in most films,” Balaji said. The actor felt that it was time for a change, he told Scroll.in. RJ Balaji, as the actor is better known, has appeared in about 25 Tamil films, including Vignesh Shivan’s Naanum Rowdy Dhaan (2015), Kalees’s Kee(2017) and Mani Ratnam’s Kaatru Veliyidai(2017). The result is the upcoming Tamil comedy LKG, about a small-time politician who tries to learn the tricks of the trade to make his way to the top. Tired of playing second-fiddle to the hero in most of his films, radio jockey-turned-actor Balaji Patturaj decided to write a starring role for himself.
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