associate director Andrea Jeremiah as psychiatrist RJ Vigneshkanth as a photographer Vaidhyanathan as Divya's father Radha Shekar as Divya's mother Vijay Varadharajan as producer Vignesh Vijayakumar as assistant director VJ Ramya as Sara, Divya's friend Episodes Production Balaji Mohan initially planned As I'm Suffering from Kadhal as a feature film, but ultimately decided it was better made as a series, saying, "as I explored the concept further with parallel storylines falling into place, it didn't make sense to fit it into a two-hour film". He added that the decision to explore into a series was mostly due to the advice of Dhanush and Soundarya Rajinikanth, before he began work on Maari 2. Balaji also stated that the series is a more mature and deeper version of Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi (2012), his feature film debut. Balaji opined that the moral compass of the characters in the series is different from feature films, stating, "The whole audience that watches a feature film won't watch this . The people watching this series are also people who watch films... but I'm not targeting this for the whole of Tamil Nadu or all age groups. This is for people who've seen all this happening around them, and they understand that this is what happens today." He also added about the direct digital release opining that the medium ensured a huge degree of freedom, and also due to non-availability of restrictions from censoring as compared to a feature film. The digital distribution of the series' rights were sold to Hotstar, which was owned and operated by Star India. Balaji stated that he needed a platform to have a universal approach to get a wider reach to the audiences across the world, and the decision to choose Hotstar, due to its growth in short span of time as a largest video streaming platform in the country, with the most comprehensive content library. Balaji produced the film under his Open Window banner and Trendloud, an original content studio tied up with the platform as his creative team ensured the creative freedom needed to create the show as he had envisioned. Soundtrack The team released a song teaser in Hotstar composed by Satish Raghunathan on 31 May 2017, followed by the music video and the single on 2 June 2017. The lyrics for the song was penned by Balaji Mohan and sung by Anand Aravindakshan, Balaji Mohan, Dhanya Balakrishna,