Soorarai Pottru (2020) on Netflix
Nedumaaran Rajangam, called Maara, leaves the Air Force with a plan to make flying cheap for ordinary people. Paresh Goswami, owner of Jaz Airlines, refuses to share the skies with him.
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- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb8.6/10132,978 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes67%
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Plot summary
Maara, the nickname friends use for Nedumaaran Rajangam, is a former Indian Air Force pilot with one ambition: a low-cost airline that ordinary travelers can afford. He admires Paresh Goswami, the owner of Jaz Airlines, who tells him that the poor have no place in the skies. Maara's father died while he was traveling home by road and rail because he could not afford a plane ticket, and the loss shapes his ambition. Sundari, called Bommi, is set on opening her own bakery and at first turns down the marriage their families propose. Maara asks Naidu, his former superior, for a loan for ex-servicemen and is refused.
Cast
- Krishnakumar Balasubramanianas Chaitanya 'Che' Rao
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Soorarai Pottru (2020)
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- To promote Soorarai Pottru, the makers launched a giant space balloon carrying a poster signed by more than 10,000 fans to 34,000 ft above sea level; the article calls it a first-of-a-kind promotional activity that went viral online.
- Sheik Maideen, a lookalike of former Indian president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam who was popularly known as "Udumalai Kalam", played the character inspired by Kalam in Soorarai Pottru, with his voice dubbed by Naveen Muralidhar.
- Paresh Rawal's antagonist Paresh Goswami is based on Naresh Goyal, the CEO of Jet Airways, and the short role of Vimal Balaiyya, played by Dan Dhanoa, was inspired by Indian businessman Vijay Mallya.
- The crew returned to Chennai and erected a building at a location near Chennai International Airport so that it would hide the runway from view during filming.
- Suriya lost almost 20 kg to gain the physique needed for scenes showing his character as a young man in Soorarai Pottru.
- A planned theatrical re-release of Soorarai Pottru, in which profits would be handed to theatre owners, was scrapped when the Tamil Nadu Theatre Owners Association refused to screen films originally released through streaming services.
- As of February 2021, Soorarai Pottru was the most-watched regional language film in the history of Amazon Prime Video in India.
