''Second Show'' (theatrically as ''II nd Show'', ( si, සෙකන්ඩ් ෂෝ) is a 2022 Indian-Sri Lankan bilingual horror thriller film directed by A.T. Gnanam in his directorial debut and co-produced by Mahadevan Ganesh and Saravanan for Siva Brothers with Kaushalya Wickramasinghe for Dark Room Creations. The film stars

Ajmal Ameer Ajmal Ameer (born 8 November 1985) is an Indian actor and former physician, who works in the Cinema of Kerala, Malayalam, Cinema of Tamil Nadu, Tamil, and Cinema of Andhra Pradesh, Telugu film industries. He has won two Filmfare Awards South f ...

Pallavi Subhash Pallavii Subhash Shirke (born 9 June 1984) is an Indian actress. A model turned actress, she began her career in Marathi plays, films and TV shows and later appeared in Hindi TV shows. She has worked in various Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Si ...

and

Hemal Ranasinghe Hemal Sachindra Ranasinghe (born 25 August 1984 as හේමාල් රණසිංහ)) is an actor in Sri Lankan cinema and television. He earned the critics' award for 'Best Actor' and 'Most Popular Actor' at the Derana Film Awards in bo ...

in lead roles whereas

Vidya Pradeep Vidya Pradeep (born 13 April 1990) is an Indian actress and scientist. She is currently working as a scientist in the United States. Her films include ''Saivam'' (2014), ''Pasanga 2'' (2015), and '' Thadam'' (2019) Career After completing her ...

, Akshata Sonawane and Pooja Mondal made supportive roles. The film is scheduled to release worldwide in June 2022 and the pre-release campaign began in May 2022. The film 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.

Plot

Cast

as Shiva *

as Sandya *

as Prasanna *

as Meera * Akshata Sonawane as Roshini * Pooja Mondal as Deepika * Maira Singh * Isha Chhabra * Black Pondy * Inba Ravikumar as Yogi * Sri Krish as Jiva * Suraj Nanda (Maurirtius) * London Venkat * Gifty (London) * Robert (London) * Mukkur N. Ramajayam

Production

This is the debut film direction by A.T. Gnanm. It was filmed in 2019 in London and Birmingham, England. Filmed in both Tamil and Sinhala on the same stage, the Sinhala dialogues are by film director Thisara Imbulana. The colorist and digital color correction of the film is Karthik Chandrasekar. The film stars Sri Lankan actor Hemal Ranasinghe, popular Marathi actress Pallavi Subhash and Kollywood Filmfare Award-winning actor Ajmal Ameer. The other characters are played by Kollywood actress Vidya Pradeep, Telugu actress Akshatha Sonawane and Gujarati model Pooja Mondal. Song music done by Ambi Subramaniam, Praneev Verl, Dialogues by S. Mohan, lyricists are Pa. Vijay, A.T.Gnanam, and Ambi Prabass. Diwakar, Sathya Prakash, Deepak, Shrikanth, Saranya Gopinath, Bindu Subramaniam and Chinamyi are the background singers. Meanwhile, Bhargavi Kalidas is the co-director, Thangaraj, S. Sathyamoorthi are assistant directors, Vinaya Devv is the costume designer, Sri Krish, Suraj Nanda (Mauritius) are choreographers as well as Kall Premkumar is the art director. The film features songs in Sinhala is sung by

Kasun Kalhara Kasun Kalhara Jayawardhana ( Sinhala: කසුන් කල්හාර ජයවර්ධන ) (born 3 November 1981), known professionally as Kasun Kalhara, is a Sri Lankan singer, musician, vocal coach and record producer. During his musi ...

Uresha Ravihari Uresha Ravihari Wickremasinghe, (born 26 June 1982; as උරේෂා රවිහාරී inhala, is a Sri Lankan songstress. Considered one of the leading female playback singers in Sri Lankan Sinhala cinema, Ravihari has won numerous award ...

, Kushani Sandareka, Kavindi Gunasekara and Dinendra Bandara.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, tt12280872
Official trailer
2022 films 2022 multilingual films 2020s Tamil-language films 2020s Sinhala-language films 2022 horror films Indian horror films Indian multilingual films Sri Lankan horror films