Revolver Rita

Revolver Rita is an upcoming Tamil-language crime comedy film written and directed by JK. Chandru.^[1] It is produced by Sudhan Sundaram and Jagadish Palanisamy under Passion Studios and The Route. The film stars Keerthy Suresh in the lead role alongside Radhika Sarathkumar, Redin Kingsley, Mime Gopi, Sendrayan, Super Subbarayan and others in supporting roles.^[2] The film has music composed by Sean Roldan, editing handled by Praveen K. L. and cinematography handled by Dinesh B. Krishnan.

Revolver Rita
Teaser poster
Directed by	JK. Chandru
Written by	JK. Chandru
Produced by	Sudhan Sundaram Jagadish Palanisamy
Starring	Keerthy Suresh
Cinematography	Dinesh B. Krishnan
Edited by	Praveen K. L.
Music by	Sean Roldan
Production companies	Passion Studios The Route
Release date	27 August 2025 (2025-08-27)
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Revolver Rita is scheduled to release in theatres on 27 August 2025, coinciding with the occasion of Vinayagar Chaturthi.

Cast

• Keerthy Suresh as Rita
• Radhika Sarathkumar
• Redin Kingsley
• Sendrayan
• Super Subbarayan
• Ajay Ghosh
• John Vijay
• Kalyan Master
• Suresh Chakravarthy
• Kathiravan
• Sendrayan
• Augustin
• Blade Shankar
• Ramachandran
• Akshatha Ajith
• Kuhasini
• Gayatri Shan

Production

Development

On 14 January 2023, Samantha Ruth Prabhu^[3] revealed the first look for the film titled Revolver Rita^[4] named after the 1970 Tamil film by the same name starring Vijaya Lalitha and Jothilakshmi in the lead roles.^[5] The first look featuring Keerthy Suresh in a vintage look was released^[6] having directed by JK. Chandru of Naveena Saraswathi Sabatham (2013) fame, in his comeback project as a director, produced by Sudhan Sundaram under Passion Studios and Jagdish Palanisamy under The Route banners respectively.^[7] The film also stars Radhika Sarathkumar,^[8] Redin Kingsley,^[9] Mime Gopi, Sendrayan,Super Subbarayan and others in supporting roles.^[2]

The film has music composed by Sean Roldan.^[10] The technical crew consists of Dinesh Krishnan B as the cinematographer, Praveen K. L. as the editor, Dhilip Subbarayan as its stunt choerographer and Vinoth Rajkumar as the art director,^[11] while Aishwarya Suresh serves as the creative producer.^[12] On 17 October 2023, on the occasion of Keerthy's birthday, the makers released a title-teaser^[10] cum glimpse video featuring the lead actor to portray a middle-class girl with an unknown dark side.^[13]

Filming

Principal photography was planned to commence by early March–April 2023.^[14] The filming got wrapped on 1 May 2024.^[15]

Music

The soundtrack and background is composed by Sean Roldan in his second collaboration with Keerthy after Raghu Thatha (2024).^[10]

Release

Theatrical

Revolver Rita is scheduled to release in theatres on 27 August 2025, coinciding with the occasion of Vinayagar Chaturthi.^[16] Earlier it was reported to have a theatrical release in 2024.^[3]

Home media

On 16 January 2023, Netflix announced that they have acquired the digital streaming rights of Revolver Rita along with a list of 14 other films.^[17][18]