The
remake rights of the
movie had been acquired by Prashanth's
father Thiagarajan, and it must be noted that the father-son duo previously remade
sriram Raghavan's
johnny Gaddar(2007) as Johnny. Thiagarajan had earlier said it would be a cakewalk for Prashanth who plays piano daily and has passed grade 4 in Trinity
college of London.
andhadhun also starred
tabu and
radhika apte, and
ayushmann khurrana won a National award for his performance.
Andhadhun is a black
comedy crime
thriller that tells the story of a piano player, who is pretending to be visually-impaired, unwittingly becomes entangled in several issues as he witnesses the
murder of a previous in time or order film actor. The
movie, which was released in
october 2018, struck a chord with the
movie buffs, and the
movie ended as a huge blockbuster. It shattered several Box-Office records than the leading actors.