Soorarai Pottru, directed by Sudha Kongara, marked Suriya’s first entry onto the OTT space via Amazon Prime Video. The movie even competed at the Oscars 2021 with 366 other films and was well received amongst the audience.
Suriya is ready with his second OTT venture Navarasa, a Tamil anthology web series, to premiere on Netflix. Although an official confirmation is yet to come by, reports are rife that Navarasa will hit the popular video streaming platform on August 6, 2021. Proceeds from the project will go towards helping workers of the industry, as stated earlier.
Suriya’s look from the anthology, long locks et al, had become the talk of the town. The web series has been directed by Arvind Swami, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Halitha Shameen, Ravindran R Prasad, Karthick Naren, Karthik Subbaraj, Bejoy Nambiar, Ponram and KV Anand. The anthology will have nine episodes that will introduce the audience to the nine navarasas (emotions) - compassion, disgust, anger, fear, love, peace, wonder, courage and laughter. Suriya is part of Gautham's episode. The duo had earlier collaborated for Vaaranam Aayiram and Kaakha Kaakha and left the audiences wanting for more.
Actors Revathi, Siddharth, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Pavel Navageethan, Sree Raam, Ammu Abhirami, Vijay Sethupathi, Prakash Raj, Arvind Swami, Prasanna, Bobby Simha and Nithya Menen are also a part of the cast. The project is backed by Mani Ratnam and Jayendra Panchapakesan.