July Kaatril

July Kaatril (English: In the wind of July) is a 2019 Indian Tamil language romantic comedy film written and directed by KC Sundaram on his directorial debut. The film stars Ananth Nag, Anju Kurian and Samyuktha Menon in the pivotal roles while Sathish and model Paloma Monnappa in the supportive roles. Joshua Sridhar composed music for the film while cinematography is handled by Demel Xavier Edwards.

Plot
A coming of age story of young people’s relationship… about love, break-up and growing up.

Synopsis
This is the story of 3 people Rajeev, Shreya and Revathi. Rajeev dates Shreya for sometime without being deeply in love but eventually gets engaged to her. Just before their wedding, he meets Revathi and finds Revathi as the love of his life and so breaks up the engagement. Rajeev is now passionately in love with Revathi. Revathi being an independent and a no-nonsense women who needs her space finds Rajeev over-imposing him on her and feels suffocated and breaks up with him. Now with all the three having had break-ups, the film is about how they move on.

Cast

 * Ananth Nag - Rajeev
 * Anju Kurian - Shreya
 * Samyuktha Menon - Revathi
 * Sathish - Murali
 * Paloma Monnappa - Athena
 * Sruthi Sai - Shreya's friend

Production
The project was announced in around late 2017 as the maiden directorial venture by debutant KC Sundaram, who previously served as an assistant to the late director and cinematographer Jeeva who was known for his works in Tamil including the critically acclaimed 2007 film Unnale Unnale. KC Sundaram who worked as co-director along with Jeeva (until his death in 2007) in Unnale Unnale film which was initially suggested to be titled as July Kaatril, revealed the film title as July Kaatril for this project as a tribute to the late director Jeeva who died in 2007. On the other hand, the film title is inspired and taken from the song June Ponal July Katre which was composed by Harris Jayaraj from the film Unnale Unnale. The portions of the film were mostly shot and set in Chennai, Goa and Kodaikanal.

Popular emerging Malayalam actress Samyuktha Menon was roped into play the second female lead in the film and also marks her Tamil film debut through this project.

The album with five songs and the lyrics penned by Late Na.Muthukumar, Rohini, Kabilan Vairamuthu, Soundararajan K.

Songs List with Lyricist(s):

Merkile Merkile - Na. Muthukumar, Soundararajan K Kayatha Kanagathe - Kabilan Vairamuthu Kangalin Oramai - Na. Muthukumar, Soundararajan K Kaatre Kaatre - Rohini Vaa Alaipol - Soundararajan K

Marketing
The official teaser of the film along with the audio was unveiled by actor Karthi on 3 March 2019.