we had reported a couple of months ago that popular actor charanraj is directing a film which will be headlined by his second son dev charanraj now the latest on the project is that the actorfilmmaker has announced its title kuppan and it has a personal connect for himcharanraj who has wowed the audience with his performances in films like dharma dorai pandiyan gentleman veera and basha says kuppan is the name of my fisherman friend who kind of inspired me to make this filmhe elaborates i stay in palavakkam and i take my pets for a walk every day to the beach ive been doing it for almost 35 years sitting with my pets on the shore and staring at the waves kuppan stays in the hamlet nearby and wed end up meeting almost every day one day he casually asked me why i havent done a film based on the sea that was the spark for this storycharanraj continues i worked on the outline about six months ago its about a fisherman falling in love with a girl from another community after finalising the title poster i showed it to my friend kuppan and he was really happy in fact he has also played a small part in the filmask him if it was a conscious decision to launch his son with his film and he says dev completed his pilot training and just when he was about to appear for his job interviews covid19 struck a few months ago after restrictions were lifted i asked him to complete an acting course he has done plays while growing up and so he decided to give this a shot as well i saw some of his videos from the acting school and felt he had it in him to do justice to this character he completed his threemonth course just when i had finished the script i think its just destinyinterestingly charanraj is also playing an important character in the film im playing devs uncle he says adding we are heading to tada for a short schedule we have almost completed the film