The director feels slapstick comedies have longer shelf life and get a wider audience. We had to make changes due to certain reasons, but when we began DD 2, we were determined to deliver a comedy that engages the audience right from the first frame.” The director adds, “I had written a different screenplay for the first half, and what was on screen wasn’t the version we had originally conceived. ![]() Santhanam himself mentioned in a recent press meet that the last forty minutes of DD was well received by the audience than its first half, when asked if they had made any changes in DD 2 based on their learnings from the first. “The audience liked our work in Dhilluku Dhuddu and we wanted to explore the comedy elements that we left untouched in the first part,” he says. The success of the first part, he says, gave them the push to come up with the sequel. And now two years later, the director is back with the sequel, Dhilluku Dhuddu 2 (DD 2), with the same team. ![]() It also gave us a director in Rambhala (who originally conceptualised and directed the series), who made his feature film debut with Dhilluku Dhuddu (2016), starring Santhanam in the lead. The show not only introduced the spoof genre to the Tamil audience but also proved to be a big break for actors like Santhanam, Swaminathan, Manohar and Yogi Babu. ![]() ![]() Lollu Sabha was revolutionary television, and went on to redefine even Tamil cinema humour in many ways.
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