The makers behind GDN the upcoming biopic about pioneering Indian inventor G.D. Naidu have finally let out the trailer giving viewers a quick peek of R. Madhavan in the lead role. The movie is slated to hit theatres on July 17, so yeah it is coming soon.

The trailer brings Madhavan in as G.D. Naidu widely seen as one of India’s most influential inventors and industrialists.

It kind of shows him in a noticeably different avatar where he kind of steps into the life of the visionary famed for his work around engineering ,and innovation.

Over the years, R. Madhavan has shaped a career that spans across several film worlds working in Tamil, Hindi and other language films. He’s known for playing a wide range of characters and the actor has managed to keep things steady mixing mainstream commercial entertainers with projects that are more performance driven.

With GDN, Madhavan sort of steps into yet another biographical skin portraying a real life person whose work actually left a long shadow across India’s technological landscape.

The trailer gives a glimpse into the hurdles accomplishments and the more private personal journey of G.D. Naidu while also placing everything firmly in the film’s period backdrop.

GDN is slated for a theatrical release on July 17.