Actor Kamal Haasan and filmmaker S Shankar announced that Indian 2 will be released in two parts, titled Indian 2 and Indian 3. Indian 2 will hit theaters on July 12, and Indian 3 will follow a few months later in 2025.
At the trailer launch in Mumbai, Kamal revealed that both films were shot simultaneously. He explained, “That’s the choice of the director. I’ll talk for myself. When I made Vishwaroop, we read the script, it was 350 pages long. I was told to edit it and that it’d turn into a fantastic film. On day one in Vishwaroop, I was shooting for Vishwaroop part 2. I had made the decision, and told my crew that this film is going to be in two parts. I told them that we had embarked on a journey to make two films and that they’ll be paid as such. I was shooting sporadically, back and forth between two films. And that’s the kind of decision that Shankar made.”
Kamal noted that while many filmmakers struggle to find backing for one film, Shankar managed to get Lyca Productions to support both parts. He said, “I’m very sure we would have given him hell and said, no, let’s make one film that was there in his mind. And above all, like I was ready to do that. There are many competent directors who are waiting for the right producer to make one film. He got the opportunity to make two. Why not use it? That’s what he must have thought. That’s what I think.”
The filmmaker explained that he initially planned only Indian 2, but Indian 3 emerged during filming. He said, “I would like to explain. Because the part one only revolves around one state. That part one itself is 3 hours 20 minutes film. Now the story spreads all over the country, to all the states. So naturally the story has become big. Actually, our initial idea was to do only one part.”
He explained that once filming started and he saw the scenes in the editing room, they looked very good. Compressing everything into one film would have lost the essence of each scene. “(However), after we started filming and when I sat in the editing room, all the scenes from my point of view came out very well. If I compress the whole thing (to make one film) the soul of each and every scene, the feel of every scene would have been lost. All the scenes were looking good and it was not boring. That’s when I realised that I was able to see there are two parts in that story. And each part has its own strength and whole form and engaging scenes and a start, a body and a climax. So it evolved automatically in two parts,” Shankar said.
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