Second Show (2022 film)

Second Show (theatrically as IInd Show, (සෙකන්ඩ් ෂෝ) is a 2022 Indian-Sri Lankan co-produced bilingual horror thriller film directed by A.T. Gnanam in his directorial debut. It was co-produced by Siva Brothers' Mahadevan Ganesh and Saravanan with Dark Room Creations' Kaushalya Wickramasinghe. The film stars Ajmal Ameer, Pallavi Subhash and Hemal Ranasinghe in lead roles with Vidya Pradeep, Akshata Sonawane and Pooja Mondal in supporting roles.

The film's pre-release campaign began in May 2022 and it was released on 8 July 2022. The film's co-producer Kaushalya Wickramasinghe stated that the Tamil version of the film will be screened in 50 theaters across the island from 29 July 2022 and it will be shown as a distribution of the National Film Corporation.

Cast

 * Ajmal Ameer as Shiva
 * Pallavi Subhash as Sandya
 * Hemal Ranasinghe as Prasanna
 * Vidya Pradeep as Meera
 * Akshata Sonawane as Roshini
 * Pooja Mondal as Deepika
 * Maira Singh
 * Isha Chhabra
 * Black Pondy
 * Inba Ravikumar as Yogi
 * Sri Krish as Jeeva
 * Suraj Nanda
 * London Venkat
 * Gifty (London)
 * Robert (London)
 * Mukkur N. Ramajayam

Production
This is the debut film of the main film director A.T. Gnanam and was filmed in 2019 in the locations of London and Birmingham, England. A.T. Gnanam is an Indian filmmaker and a screenwriter working in Tamil cinema. He has worked in many movies tele-films and worked as associate director and co-director of many movies. He also worked in the story discussion department of the Bollywood film, Chennai Express, under the story author and director, K Subash.

Second Show was filmed simultaneously in both Tamil and Sinhala, with the Tamil dialogues written by S. Mohan and the Sinhala dialogues written by film director Thisara Imbulana. Bhargavi Kalidas co-directed the film, with Thangaraj S. Sathyamoorthi helping as an assistant director. Vivek Fernando directed the film in Sri Lanka. As an Indo-Lankan co-production, the film not only shares both Indian and Sri Lankan film technicians, but it also stars artists from both countries: Sri Lankan actor Hemal Ranasinghe, Marathi actress Pallavi Subhash and Kollywood Filmfare Award-winning actor Ajmal Ameer are a notable few in the movie Other notable characters played are by Kollywood actress Vidya Pradeep, Tollywood actress Akshatha Sonawane and Gujarati model Pooja Mondal.

The music director of the movie, Ambi Subramaniam, and Praneev Verl, a Sri Lankan composer who composed two songs in the movie worked with lyricists Pa. Vijay, A.T. Gnanam, and Ambi Prabass, and singers Diwakar, Sathya Prakash, Deepak, Shrikanth, Saranya Gopinath, Bindu Subramaniam and Chinmayi, while Sri Krish, Suraj Nanda from Mauritius choreographed. The film also features songs in Sinhala sung by Kasun Kalhara, Uresha Ravihari, Kushani Sandareka, Kavindi Gunasekara and Dinendra Bandara.

The digital colour correction of the film is done by colourist Karthik Chandrasekar, with Vinaya Devv handling the outfits as the costume designer and Kall Premkumar as the art director.