Arasan is the title of Tamil star Silambarasan TR’s upcoming challenge with ace filmmaker Vetri Maaran, the makers introduced on Tuesday (October 7). Produced by Kalaippuli S Thanu below his V Creations banner, the upcoming film is about on the earth of Vetri’s acclaimed 2018 film Vada Chennai.
Thanu shared the film’s title poster on his social media handles to announce the information.
Other particulars, just like the plot, stay unknown. While saying the film in June, director Vetri Maaran revealed that the film, then tentatively known as STR 49, is a parallel narrative set across the similar time as Vada Chennai, and that “characters and aspects from Vada Chennai will find their way into this story.”
A beforehand launched promo video of the film confirmed a sickle-wielding Simbu, in a striped shirt and saggy pants, strolling right into a desolate lane. The video, nevertheless, cuts earlier than his face is revealed. Interestingly, the title poster additionally deliberately hides the actor’s face, which actually provides to the thriller.
While forged particulars have but to be formally revealed, a leaked nonetheless from the set confirmed director Nelson alongside Simbu, prompting netizens to invest that the director is enjoying a cameo within the film. Further speculations added that actors Kavin and Manikandan are additionally a part of the film, and that actors Andrea Jeremiah, Samuthirakani and Kishore are reprising their roles from Vada Chennai.
Vada Chennai, broadly thought-about as among the best gangster dramas in Tamil, featured Dhanush as a younger man who’s pulled right into a world of crime, one the place you both do or die. Over the years, the film has attained cult standing amongst audiences. Interestingly, Vetri had additionally introduced a spin-off collection centred round Ameer Sultan’s character Rajan, titled Rajan Vagaiyara; nevertheless, there haven’t been any updates on the identical.