With just a few days to go for the release of Sasikumar and Simran's upcoming film Tourist Family, the makers on Monday announced that the comedy entertainer has cleared censorship formalities with a U certificate. Directed by debutant filmmaker Abishan Jeevinth, the film is slated for a release in theatres on May 1.
Described as a feel-good film with a strong emotional core, Tourist Family revolves around a Tamil family fleeing Sri Lanka due to the island nation's post-Covid economic crisis. The recently-released trailer established that the family was masking their identities to make a livelihood in the city. How the family comes together as they face unemployment and police crackdowns seems to form the rest of the story. Interestingly Tourist Family also has a few references to Vijay especially from his hit 2016 film Theri.
The film also stars Yogi Babu, Mithun Jai Sankar, Kamalesh, MS Bhaskar, Ramesh Thilak, Bagavathi Perumal, Elango Kumaravel and Sreeja Ravi.
In an earlier interview with CE, Abishan Jeevinth mentioned that he wanted Tourist Family to be as apolitical as possible. "So we had a limit on how much to employ the Sri Lankan economic crisis in the film," he said, underlining how Kamal Haasan's 2000 comedy Thenali served as an inspiration for his film.
Tourist Family is produced by Pasilian Nazerath, Magesh Raj Pasilian, and Yuvaraj Ganesan under the Million Dollar Studios and MRP Entertainment banners. The film's technical crew comprises music composer Sean Roldan, cinematographer Aravind Viswanathan, editor Barath Vikraman, art director Raj Kamal, and lyricist Mohan Rajan.
