Shylock (film) for "Shylock", a Tamil adaptation of Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice". He and his friend Serukalathur Sama directed the film under the name Sama-Ramu. Sama also played the title character. The lyricists were Yaanai Vaidyanatha Iyer, P. S. Sivaramalingam (who acted onscreen as the Duke) and Papanasam Rajagopala Iyer, brother of Papanasam Sivan. S. G. Kasi Iyer, the brother of Tamil theatre actor S. G. Kittappa, was the music director, besides playing Antonio onscreen. Portia was played by T. V. Janakam, and Bassanio by T. S. Santhanam. Shooting took place at Bharat Movietone in Kilpauk. The makers went to
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)