Second Show (theatrically as IInd Show, (Sinhala: සෙකන්ඩ් ෂෝ) is a 2022 Indian-Sri Lankan co-produced bilingual horror thriller film directed by A.T. Gnanam in his directorial debut. It was co-produced by Siva Brothers' Mahadevan Ganesh and Saravanan with Dark Room Creations' Kaushalya Wickramasinghe.[1] The film stars Ajmal Ameer, Pallavi Subhash and Hemal Ranasinghe in lead roles with Vidya Pradeep, Akshata Sonawane and Pooja Mondal in supporting roles.[2][3][4][5][6]
The film's pre-release campaign began in May 2022[7][8] and it was released on 8 July 2022.[9] The film's co-producer Kaushalya Wickramasinghe stated that the Tamil version of the film will be screened in 50 theaters across the island from 29 July 2022 and it will be shown as a distribution of the National Film Corporation.[10]
This is the debut film of the main film director A.T. Gnanam and was filmed in 2019 in the locations of London and Birmingham, England.[11] A.T. Gnanam is an Indian filmmaker and a screenwriter working in Tamil cinema. He has worked in many movies tele-films and worked as associate director and co-director of many movies. He also worked in the story discussion department of the Bollywood film, Chennai Express, under the story author and director, K Subash.
Second Show was filmed simultaneously in both Tamil and Sinhala, with the Tamil dialogues written by S. Mohan and the Sinhala dialogues written by film director Thisara Imbulana.[12] Bhargavi Kalidas co-directed the film, with Thangaraj S. Sathyamoorthi helping as an assistant director. Vivek Fernando directed the film in Sri Lanka.[13] As an Indo-Lankan co-production, the film not only shares both Indian and Sri Lankan film technicians, but it also stars artists from both countries: Sri Lankan actor Hemal Ranasinghe, Marathi actress Pallavi Subhash and KollywoodFilmfare Award-winning actor Ajmal Ameer are a notable few in the movie [14] Other notable characters played are by Kollywood actress Vidya Pradeep, Tollywood actress Akshatha Sonawane and Gujarati model Pooja Mondal.[15]
The digital colour correction of the film is done by colourist Karthik Chandrasekar, with Vinaya Devv handling the outfits as the costume designer and Kall Premkumar as the art director.