Fresh from the super success of Nanban, Director Shankar is very busy with the pre-production work on his next film 'ஐ ' with Vikram. The ace director however took some time to update his fans about the title of the film, the Tamil letter 'ஐ ' stands for beauty, King, guru, astonishment, vulnerability and tenderness etc.
Produced by V. Ravichandran of Aascar films, Shankar's 'ஐ ' was recently announced to be a romantic thriller, contrary to what was earlier reported to be based on politics, corruption and the electoral system in India.
The filming crew that has P.C Sreeram joining Shankar for the first time as the DOP boasts of other technicians like Mary Vogt of the 'Men in Black' series and Rising Sun Pictures (RSP), Australia working on the costumes and VFX for the film respectively. Academy Award Winning composer A.R Rahman who collaborates with Shankar for 'ஐ ' after Enthiran (2010) has already completed a song rendered by Vijay Prakash that has lyrics by Kabilan.
As reported earlier, Shankar has been keen to rope in a Bollywood actor opposite Vikram and is trying to convince Deepika Padukone to accept the other lead role in the film. If everything goes well, Deepika will soon be part of 'ஐ' that has Vikram, Amy Jackson, Santhanam, Suresh Gopi and Sivaji Ganesan's elder son Ramkumar Ganesan in the cast.
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