"Thug Life" is an upcoming Tamil-language gangster action drama directed by Mani Ratnam and co-written with Kamal Haasan. The film features an ensemble cast, including Haasan, Silambarasan, and Trisha Krishnan, marking the reunion of Haasan and Ratnam since "Nayakan" (1987).

Officially announced in November 2022, with locations across Chennai, Pondicherry, and New Delhi. The film boasts a score by A. R. Rahman and cinematography by Ravi K. Chandran.

"Thug Life" is set for a worldwide theatrical release on June 5, 2025. Our studio is proud to be handling the visual effects for this exciting project.

VFX Team

Supervisors

• VFX Supervisor: Javad Matouri, Salar Jabarzadeh
• CG Supervisor: Salar Jabarzadeh
• VFX Producer: Javad Matouri, Seyed Reza Tayebi Jazayeri
• Production Manager: Amin Reza Nazari
• Compositing Supervisor: Mohammad Afshani Farid
• Character CG Supervisor: Milad Ghiasi
• Surfacing / Lighting Supervisor: Soheil Sadeghi
• Modeling Supervisor: Seyed Mohammad Hossein Arefzadeh
• Layout Supervisor: Reza Ghiyasi

Production Team

• Account: Mohammad Saghazadeh
• HR Manager: Mahdi Rezaei
• Team Members:
  • Masoud Ghazi
  • Amirhossein Rezaie
  • Ahmad Khanfari
  • Shobhit Mishra

Compositing Team

• Pouria Koushki
• Mohamad Reza Shafiei
• Adel Ashouri
• Mohammad Karimi
• Omid Shafagh
• Mahdi Alinezhad
• Sahar Moallem
• Sama Hatefi
• Mohammad Taha Sohrabi
• Maryam Deyhoul
• Hoseinali Ahmadzadeh
• Amir Mahdi Esmaeli
• Mostafa Taheri
• Sepehr Rasoulian
• Omid Emamgholi

Surfacing Team

• Hosein Mirfatah
• Mostafa Ghorbani
• Hamidreza Moazen
• Mersad Almasi
• Amirhosein Sanavi
• Sina Samani
• Navid Alirezaei
• Sepide Roshan

Lighting Team

• Hossein Pari
• Hosein Mirfatah
• Mostafa Ghorbani
• Hamid Moazen
• Human Amin
• Mersad Almasi
• Navid Alirezaei
• Hojat Shabani

Animation Team

• Seyyed Mohammad Mehdi Khezri
• Fatemeh Babazadeh
• Masoud Dana pour
• Farshid Karimzadeh
• Mohamad Hossein Falah
• Ashkan Saneie
• Mehdi Ghasempour

FX Team

• Navid Khezli
• Abbas Khaledi
• Iman Vafaei
• Saeid Soufi Anarki
• Hojat Shabani

Technical & Assemble Team

• Milad Hatam
• Ali Reza Maskouki

CFX Team

• Morteza Ghahremani
• Shohre Dabaghian
• Ghazal Az
• Siavash Arji

Rigging Team

• Mahdi Sadeghi Mahani
• Farid Mohammad Panah
• Ali Nodehi

Character Modeling Team

• Farzad Maleki
• Ali Sadeghi
• Hamed Kashgalani

Environment Modeling Team

• Reza Rezaei
• Farzad Maleki
• Ako Ghadermarzi
• Mostafa Ghorbani
• Mehdi Ghorbani
• Hojat Shabani
• Aida Sarabadani
• Mohammad Ehasn Nili

Digital Matte Painting Team

• Ehsan Dabbaghi
• Mostafa Matouri

Concept Team

• Mohammad Yousefi
• Ehsan Dabbaghi
• Sina Babaei

Layout Team

• Bardia Diba
• Sina Karafsi Dehkordi
• Farhad Shahidi Shandi
• Ali Eskandari

Postviz Team

• Hamid Haghani

Matchmove Team

• Mohsen Jeldi
• Hossein Behrad Sadr
• Hamed Ghasemi
• Amir PaAfshar
• Mohammad Amin Ghazanfari

Roto / Cleanup Team

• Majid Zargar
• Hamed Ghonuei
• Farimah Rasouli
• Fatemeh Ahmadi
• Ghafar Ebrahimi

IT & Render Wrangler

• IT Manager: Hossein Pakaein
• Team Members:
  • Keivan Hemati
  • Mohammad Hassan Mohammad Zadeh