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Pizza II: Villa

2013 Tamil film directed by Deepan Chakravarthy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ16253026
Source-derived summary

Pizza II: Villa is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language horror thriller film written and directed by debutant Deepan Chakravarthy. It is the second installment in the Pizza film series. The film stars Ashok Selvan and Sanchita Shetty in lead roles, while Nassar and Vegan Rajesh appear in other pivotal roles The music for the film was composed by Santhosh Narayanan, while cinematography was handled by Deepak Kumar Padhy and Leo John Paul has done the editing. Produced jointly by Thirukumaran Entertainment and Studio Green, Pizza II: Villa is a spiritual successor to Pizza (2012). The filming commenced on 17 April and was completed in May 2013. The film was released on 14 November 2013.

Plot

Jebin M. Jose, a debut English crime novelist, learns that his late father went bankrupt while owning an unlisted villa in Pondicherry. Hoping to settle the debts, he visits the property for valuation and invites his girlfriend Aarthi, an art student, after noticing his father’s paintings. Aarthi becomes fascinated by both the villa and a mysterious dual-faced painting.

Encouraged by Aarthi, Jebin decides not to sell the villa.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pizza II: Villa” as 2013 Tamil film directed by Deepan Chakravarthy. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Pizza, Villa and Tamil can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2013 Tamil film directed by Deepan Chakravarthy. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16253026. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from Pizza II: Villa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.