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The 100-crore dream that vanished: Why Trisha still asks Kamal Haasan about their shelved 7th-century epic

The Indian Express·Entertainment Desk·28 days ago
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Trisha on her experience working with Kamal Haasan on Marmayogi. Some lessons stay with you not because they ended well, but because they began beautifully. For Trisha Krishnan , Marmayogi is exactly that kind of story. A film that never made it to theatres, never completed its shoot, and yet sits in her memory with more clarity than projects she has actually finished and moved on from. In an old conversation with Galatta Plus, Trisha recalled the Marmayogi days “crystal clear.” Even now, every time she crosses paths with Kamal Haasan after a gap, her first question to him is about Marmayogi. Not out of frustration that it did not happen. Out of something closer to fondness for a time she clearly does not want to forget. Marmayogi was announced as Kamal Haasan’s directorial project following the completion of Dasavathaaram in 2008. The film was conceived as a bilingual Hindi-Tamil period drama set in the 7th century, and by all accounts, it was being built on an enormous scale.…

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