Films featuring animals have always drawn attention, and have gone on to be hits in Tamil cinema. After goats, dogs, snakes, horses, elephants, roosters and cats have featured in films in the past, here comes a movie titled Jetlee, which has a white piglet in the titular role. Touted to be a laugh riot, the movie stars Kannan Ponnaya and Jehan Saai as the male leads — the former being a long-time associate of Gautham Menon. Parvathy Nair of Utthama Villain fame and Arundhati Nair of Saithan play the female leads.
Apart from playing one of the heroes, it is interesting that Jehan Saai has also penned the story and wielded the megaphone for the film. Speaking about Jetlee, Jehan who has worked under director Jagganath, says, “Lot of people believe in various superstitions. One such belief is that a moving vehicle hitting a pig is a bad omen, and they immediately sell their vehicle. I want to negate this misconception, not in a hard-hitting way, but in a hilarious manner.”
On choosing the right white piglet he says, “Since the story revolves around the piglet, we scouted around many places and finally found one cute little a near Foreshore Estate in the city. We are planning to use the animal in vital scenes, and the rest of the time we will use the one created through VFX. We did thorough preproduction work before commencing the project,” he concludes.
