Santosh Sivan brings new technology to Suriya-Lingusamy film

After having successfully introduced Arri Alexa’s digital technology to Indian film industry through Thuppakki, ace cinematographer Santosh Sivan is at it again. This time he will be introducing Red Dragon Digital. And this will be the first time the technology will be commercialized in the world. Santosh plans to use Red Dragon for Suriya-Lingusamy film, thus making it the first film to use this technology.

Santosh along with Suriya, Lingusamy and the engineers from Red participated in the test shoot that was conducted yesterday in Prasad Studios in Chennai. Explaining about adopting the latest technology, Santosh Sivan said, “I want the technological advancement to first happen in Chennai and this is one such sign. Although the visual medium remains the same, such advancements in camera results in enhancing the pictorial details."

Suriya said, “I am excited that we are the first one to use 'Red Dragon' Camera in the entire world and world famous filmmakers like Ridley Scott are going to use it (in the future)." The film produced by Lingusamy under Thirupathi Brothers will go for regular shoots from November 15.

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