Gypsy (2019 film)

Gypsy is an upcoming Indian Tamil-language road romance film written and directed by Raju Murugan. The film stars Jiiva and Natasha Singh. It is produced under the banner of Olympia Movies. The film's soundtrack is composed by Santhosh Narayanan, and cinematography is handled by Selvakumar SK.

Cast

 * Jiiva as a modern gypsy
 * Natasha Singh as the love interest of Jiiva
 * Sunny Wayne as communist leader
 * Lal Jose
 * Susheela Raman

Production
The film titled was announced by director Raju Murugan as his third assignment in June 2018 who is also known for his previous directorial works such as Joker and Cuckoo. The shooting for the film commenced in around early June 2018 at Karaikkal. The first look poster of the film was unveiled on 11 June 2018. Jiiva accepted to work for the film with the director while he was busy with the shooting of his upcoming film Gorilla.

The film was initially speculated to be a social drama film but later the film-makers revealed that the film was made up as a romantic travel based story. It was also revealed that actor Jiiva also learnt to play guitar for the film. Malayalam actor Sunny Wayne was roped in to play an important role as communist leader in the film and coincidentally he made his début in Kollywood industry through this film.

The shooting of the film was wrapped up on 6 November 2018.

Marketing
The official teaser of the film was released on 5 January 2019.

The official trailer of the film was released on 20 May 2019.

Soundtrack
The music is scored by Santhosh Narayanan and the first single song teaser was unveiled on 31 December 2018. The promo of a song titled Very Very Bad which featured in the film was released on 22 January 2019 with the auspices of Indian Communist Party members and social activists such as R. Nallakannu, Thirumurugan Gandhi, Piyush Manush, Balbharati and Grace Banu. This marks the first ever instance in Tamil cinema that social activists were invited to launch a Tamil film's song promo.