Muruga Preview: It's a fresh team for the new film 'Muruga'. While debutants Mahesh and Shruti Sharma play the lead, Samiksha has a crucial role in the film. It is directed by R D Nesan, who has apprenticed under directors like Vincent Selva, Bhagyaraj and Udayshanker. Producing it is Kondan, who steps in from the world of advertising to make his first feature film under the same company name of Cocktail Dream Films.

The story begins in a village in Rameswaram and shifts to Chennai in the second half. It's about a youth who falls in love with the same girl twice. Once as an adolescent while in school, and the next time when they later meet in the city and fail to recognise each other, says the director.

Mahesh plays a youth who comes to the city in search of a livelihood and gets a job in a courier office. Shruti is the daughter of a wealthy family who comes to the city to join a medical college.

The two had loved while in school and had been separated by her egoistic father, meet again in the city and fall in love. What happens next forms the climax.

The climax of the film was shot in a ship-breaking yard in Gujarat owned by Shruti's father in the story. It is the first time that such a location has been used in a Tamil film, says the director. After a shooting schedule of 13 days at Rameswaram and Ramanathapuram, the unit shifted to Chennai for a 30-day shoot. Two songs have been picturised at Pollachi and locations in Kerala.

Kartikraja composes the tunes while cinematography is by Padmesh. The supporting cast has Vadivelu, Vincent Ashokan, Riyaz Khan, Mahadevan, Sudha, Chithra and Shenoy.