Sriram Raghavan on making Hindi and Tamil versions of Katrina Kaif-Vijay Sethupathi’s Merry Christmas: ‘I’ll not do this again because…’

“I’m a Tamilian and I wanted to make a Tamil film. With this film (Merry Christmas), I got a chance to do that (make a Tamil movie), with Vijay Sethupathi, an actor from there. But I don’t think I’ll do this again because it requires a lot of hard work (doing the film in Hindi and Tamil simultaneously),” he said.

The Tamil trailer of Merry Christmas has visual differences, and the character actors in the two films are also different. The filmmaker clarified that the Tamil version is not just a dubbed version but they shot the movie all over again after completing the Hindi version.

He said, “For instance, we shot one scene, and after ten days, we have to shoot the same scene, with same camera, same lightening, so it’s not that much. But that adventure and discovery is not there. However, I enjoyed doing that (making Merry Chirstmas) as I wanted to do a Tamil movie.”

Merry Christmas is scheduled to release in cinemas on January 12.