Super Deluxe director Thiagarajan Kumararaja's debut film Aaranya Kaandam is set to hit theatres again on March 13, Friday. The film's producer SPB Charan, actor, singer and son of SP Balasubrahmanyam, announced the news earlier this Saturday. In his announcement post, Charan suggested that the film is hitting theatres again based on popular demand. Sharing a poster, he wrote, "For everyone who kept asking. Some films don’t age, they become cult classic. The critically acclaimed, National Award-winning Aaranya Kaandam returns to big screen March 13."
The film originally released in June 2011 in India after its premiere at the South Asian International Film Festival a year before. It stars Jackie Shroff, Ravi Krishna, Sampath Raj, Yasmin Ponnappa, and Guru Somasundaram, among others. It won two National Awards, one for Best First Film of a Director for Thiagarajan Kumararaja and another in the Best Editing category for Praveen KL.
The film has a narrative with more than one storyline, one of which pertains to a gangster and his disgruntled mistress and another concerning a bag of cocaine that goes missing.
Aaranya Kaandam earned much critical appreciation upon its original release in 2011, but it did not become a commercial success at the box office. While the filmmaker took a long time to make his second film, 2019's Super Deluxe, the Vijay Sethupathi starrer worked better at the box office and is regarded as one of Tamil cinema's finest films. Aaranya Kaandam, meanwhile, is widely considered a cult classic. Many filmmakers, such as Lokesh Kanagaraj and Anurag Kashyap, cited it as one of the films that inspired them. The news about its rerelease comes not long after the announcement of Thiagarajan Kumararaja's next film with Vijay Sethupathi.
