''Chennai 600028 II'' is a 2016 Indian

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-language

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film co-produced, written and directed by

Venkat Prabhu Venkat Kumar Gangai Amaren (born 7 November 1975), better known by his stage name Venkat Prabhu, is an Indian filmmaker, actor and playback singer in Tamil films. After completing his education, he began pursuing an acting career, with his first ...

, who also produces the film along with

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under Black Ticket Company and Capital Film Works. The film, which is a sequel to ''

Chennai 600028 ''Chennai 600028'' is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language sports comedy film written and directed by Venkat Prabhu in his directorial debut. It stars Shiva, Jai, Premji, Aravind Akash, Nithin Sathya and newcomers Ajay Raj, Ranjith, Vijay Vasanth, Pr ...

'' (2007), features

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in a prominent role in addition to several cast members from the earlier film including Jai,

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and

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. The film's score and soundtrack is composed by

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. The film was released on 9 December 2016 to positive reviews and performed well at the box office.

Plot

Karthik (

) is married to his girlfriend Selvi (

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), so are Pazhani (

) and Gopi (

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). Raghu ( Jai) is in love and is attempting to convince his girlfriend Anu’s (

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) parents to accept him. Seenu (

), who had previously owned the tiny neighbourhood grocery store, is now the proud owner of a supermarket. He is single and keeps the group together with his never-ending booze parties, antagonizing the wives who blame him for their husbands's wayward ways. Despite the frequent fights at home, the group is still in touch and deeply care about each other. Meanwhile Raghu’s marriage is fixed. Though reluctant initially, Anu’s parents want her to be happy. Everyone is invited to their village, where the wedding celebrations are slated to go on for a week. It is in this picturesque village in Theni district that the friends are thrown back into their former life, when everything revolved around cricket and the beautiful bond of friendship. A midnight bachelor’s party goes horribly wrong with Raghu found in a compromising position with one of the dancers. The wedding is called off. How this entire complicated mess is sorted out with a series of very interesting nail-biting cricket matches forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Production

Plans of making a sequel to ''Chennai 600028'' have been reported several times in the media, first in 2007 shortly after the film's release. In 2009, Indiaglitz.com reported that Venkat Prabhu and producer S. P. B. Charan would join together in 2010 to start the second part with a "top slot mass hero", while Charan reiterated the same in an interview later. In 2011, sources said that a sequel to ''Chennai 28'' had been planned earlier but was not "on cards as of now". In 2012, Venkat Prabhu again expressed interest in making a sequel, stating "I personally love to do Chennai- 28 with the tagline Second Innings". This was confirmed after production of the film was officially unveiled on 28 February 2016.

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, who had previously appeared in '' Ramanujan'' (2014), revealed that he had signed on to portray a negative role in the film and would sport a thick beard and moustache for his character.

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also announced that he had signed the film during March 2016, while actress

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was brought into portray Vijay Vasanth's love interest. Actor Viraj who appeared in the first film as a small boy, reprised his role in this film.

Release

The satellite rights of the film were sold to

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Soundtrack

References

External links

* {{Venkat Prabhu 2016 films 2010s Tamil-language films Films directed by Venkat Prabhu Films scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja Indian sequel films Indian sports comedy films Films about cricket in India Films shot in Tirunelveli 2010s sports comedy films 2016 comedy films