Suriya wanted to play on 20-year age-gap with Mamitha Baiju: Director on Vishwanath and Sons

5 min readHyderabadJul 29, 2026 04:58 PM IST Ahead of the release of Vishwanath and Sons in August, director Venky Atluri has opened up about the film’s central age-gap romance between Suriya and Mamitha Baiju, revealing that it was the actor, not the director, who insisted on making the 20-year gap between the characters explicit on screen. In a recent interview, Venky Atluri said, “I explored the family man side of Suriya in a way audiences have rarely seen, His presence in the film will be like the the flashback plot of Ghajini”. He called Mamitha Baiju a natural who completed most of her scenes in a single take.According to Venky Atluri, the film follows Sanjay Vishwanath, a 42-year-old international pistol shooting champion played by Suriya, and Maddy, a free-spirited 22-year-old play