Shylock (film) Shylock (film) Shylock is a 1940 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Kinema Ramu and Serukalathur Sama (under the name Sama-Ramu) and produced by Bharat Pictures. It is based on William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice". The film stars Sama as the title character, T. V. Janakam as Portia, S. G. Kasi Iyer as Antonio, P. S. Sivaramalingam as the Duke and T. S. Santhanam as Bassanio. The film was a commercial failure, and no print of it has survived, making it a lost film. Kinema Ramu, a lawyer based in Kumbakonam and scholar on William Shakespeare, wrote the dialogue
S/O Satyamurthy at the end of November 2014, and Mamilla Shailaja Priya was cast in a supporting role. Supporting character actor M. S. Narayana died after most of his portions in the film was completed. Although Srinivas decided not to delete any of his scenes, he faced a dilemma: whether to use a double or make do with what they had. After evaluating many mimics, Srinivas and Arjun reportedly decided to use Siva Reddy to flesh out Narayana's role. Sampath Raj was cast in early February 2015. "S/O Satyamurthy" was considered an image makeover for Arjun. Although his character's name (Viraj Anand)