Indian 3 Post-Production Set To Resume, Say Reports

Indian 2 ended on a cliffhanger. Senapathy, cornered by the police after an officer was critically hurt, strikes a deal to save the man's life, escapes in an ambulance and promises he'll be back. That promise is finally moving toward becoming Indian 3, according to a report by Sun News Tamil that both Pinkvilla and the Times of India have since picked up.

The claim, per that report: a major chunk of Indian 3 was shot back-to-back with Indian 2, the standard playbook for a two-part shoot. What's left, reportedly, is limited patchwork, a scene here, a scene there, plus a considerable stack of computer graphics work still to be finished. No studio or Shankar's team has confirmed a shooting schedule or a post-production timeline. This is trade reporting, not an official statement, and it's worth treating it that way until Lyca Productions or Shankar himself says otherwise.

Indian 2 itself landed to what TOI calls a mixed reception. Kamal Haasan returned as Senapathy, the vigilante who first showed up in 1996's Indian and came back 28 years later to find Chitra Aravindhan, a Chennai media professional, running a satirical online channel with his friends. Chitra's campaign to bring Senapathy back turns on him once he discovers his own father is one of the corrupt men Senapathy's crusade exposes. That personal betrayal, and the manhunt that follows, is what sets up Indian 3.