Comali director Pradeep Ranganathan's acting debut titled Love Today; makers thank Vijay and Super Good Films

It was announced a while ago that Pradeep Ranganathan, who made his directorial debut with Jayam Ravi-starrer Comali in 2019, is making his acting debut with a project to be bankrolled by AGS Entertainment. Yuvan Shankar Raja, who was brought on board earlier, had shared that the film is special for him.

Archana Kalpathi, creative director of the production house, thanked Vijay and veteran producer RB Choudary yesterday for granting permission for using the title of the yesteryear film for Pradeep's movie. After much speculation doing the rounds, the team officially announced today morning that the project has been titled Love Today.

Love Today was the title of Balasekaran's Vijay-starrer romantic drama which was released in 1997. Fans of Vijay lapped up the announcement on social media and started circulating pictures and video clips of the two-and-a-half decade film. The team also released first look posters of the film.

One of them has him checking messages from his girlfriend on the phone while the other has him planning something big after realizing an unpleasant truth. Apparently, Pradeep has said that he is dedicating the film to the girl who left him. He tweeted, "#LoveToday Thanks to wonderful #Ags for this movie. Dedicating this movie to the girl who left me (sic)."

It is expected that the movie's story will have moments that really happened in the filmmaker-actor's life. An update on Love Today's cast is likely to be made soon. Dinesh Purushothaman is handling cinematography for the movie which has editing by Pradeep E Raghav. Tapas Nayak is at the helm of sound designing.

Jayam Ravi, who unveiled the first look posters, wished success to the team of Love Today, including Pradeep and Archana. The movie is expected to hit the screens this year.