Rangoon (2017 Tamil film)

Rangoon is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language action crime film written and directed by Rajkumar Periasamy in his directoral debut and produced by A. R. Murugadoss.

Venkat (Gautham Karthik) hails from the Burmese city of Rangoon, which has now been renamed Yangon by the regime.

Meanwhile, Venkat meets a club singer named Natasha (Sana Makbul) and falls in love with her.

Sasi (Daniel Annie Pope), he indulges in gold smuggling to clear Siya's debts with the profits earned.

In the same motive, he, along with his friends travels to Myanmar on a smuggling deal in an illegal route via a road crossing the borders, for Siya.

After four years, Venkat gets released from jail and starts his own small jewelry shop in the name of his father.

The project was first announced in August 2014, with AR Murugadoss revealing that he would produce Rangoon, directed by his associate director, Rajkumar Periasamy, who worked with him on Thuppakki (2012).

Initially, Anirudh Ravichander was rumoured to be the film's music composer as he was scoring Kaththi (2014) at that time.

Though Rangoon has a broader setting like Myanmar, Chennai city's northern parts' live locations, Indo-Myanmar borders the production was completed on a low budget.