17 years of Chennai 600028: Here is where you can stream Venkat Prabhu’s sports comedy drama

It’s 17 years of Chennai 600028! The cricket-based sports drama, marked the directorial debut of filmmaker Venkat Prabhu, who is currently working with Vijay in GOAT- Greatest of All Time. Chennai 600028 released on April 27, 2007 and became a commercial blockbuster and gold standards of sorts for sports drama. If you haven’t watched the film yet or would like to revisit, worry you not, the film can be watched from the comfort of your homes right now.

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Where to watch Chennai 600028

Chennai 600028 is available for streaming on SunNXT and OTTplay Premium. The film featured a young cast, including Jai, Shiva, Premji, Aravind Akash, Nithin Sathya and newcomers Ajay Raj, Vijay Vasanth, Prasanna, Inigo Prabakaran, Karthik and Arun in the lead along with Vijayalakshmi Feroz and Kristine Zedek, and others. Most of the actors went on to become regular ensemble cast in all Venkat Prabhu films.

Chennai 600028 is a comedy sports drama that revolves around two rivalry cricketing teams who take part in local tournaments. With romance, friendship, sportsmanship and humour, Chennai 600028 went on to became one of the landmark sports-drama in Tamil cinema. The film became one of the firsts to portray street cricket in films. Backed by SPB Charan, and JK Saravana, the film had music scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja.

More about Chennai 600028

The film was remade in Bengali as Le Chakka, in Kannada as Bangalore 560023 and in Sinhalese as Super Six. Subsequently, Venkat Prabhu made a sequel titled Chennai 600028 II, with several cast members, including Jai, Shiva, Premji, Aravind Akash, and Nithin Sathya, returning. Vaibhav, Mahat and others were new additions.

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Venkat Prabhu retained the film’s name for the sequel as well. The title refers to the pincode for Mandaveli area in Chennai, the place where the story is set against. The second part is available for streaming on SonyLIV in Hindi and Prime Video in Tamil.

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