Salted Dry Fish) is a 2015 Tamil-language comedy drama film directed by Radha Mohan, starring Karunakaran, Nandita, and Rachitha Mahalakshmi,[2] while Sathish Krishnan, Narayan Lucky, Chaams, and Elango Kumaravel play supporting roles.

Chandran (Karunakaran) is an aspiring filmmaker and is accompanied by his friends Ilango (Chaams) and Karthik (Narayan Lucky), who assist him in preparing the scripts and screenplays.

Jayaraman gets impressed by the script and decides to bankroll the project but on a condition that his only daughter Mahalakshmi (Nandita) should be cast as the heroine, for which Chandran and his friends agree.

Post some rehearsal, Chandran understands that Mahalakshmi could never emote or act well and worries for accepting to cast her as the heroine of his movie.

Manja advices Chandran that Mahalakshmi is a big miscast for his script and the movie would have been a box office bomb in case if they cast her.

Radha Mohan began the venture in December 2014, with Nandita Swetha chosen to star in the lead role alongside a bevy of supporting actors.

"[9] Times of India wrote "Thematically, Uppu Karuvadu feels like a Jigarthanda-meets-Kathai Thiraikathai Vasanam Iyakkam (KTVI).

But in place of the visual stylishness of Jigarthanda and the structural bravado of KTVI, the scenes here play out like a series of comedy sketches, giving it the feel of a stage drama that has been taped on camera".

The director’s quirky characterization and Pon Parthiepan’s tongue-in-cheek dialogues provide a wholesome entertainer, a complete laugh riot!".