Kamal Haasan and Shankar’s Indian 2 to start rolling in Hyderabad

As we had already reported, ace filmmaker Shankar is reuniting with Kamal Haasan after two decades for the sequel of their 1996 classic film, Indian. The movie has been in the pre-production phase for a while now. As per latest reports, set works for the movie will begin soon at Ramoji Rao Film City in Hyderabad. Shoot is expected to commence in the film city very soon.

Director Shankar is currently busy finalizing the cast and crew of the film. He was recently in Taiwan for location scouting. Nayanthara is reportedly the top contender for the female lead and Anirudh might compose the music. Ace cinematographer Ravi Varman and art director T Muthuraj are already confirmed in the technical crew.

Unlike Shankar’s other recent films, Indian 2 will not have much VFX or CG works, so they are planning to release the movie by mid-2019 itself. The movie will have Kamal Haasan reprising the role of vigilante Senapathi. His stellar performance in a dual role in Indian, which was released back in 1996, won him his third National award. The movie was also India’s official submission for the Academy Award for best foreign language film that year.

Expectations are huge when Shankar and Kamal Haasan team up for the sequel of a cult-classic like Indian. Leading Telugu producer Dil Raju of Sri Venkateswara Creations was initially supposed to fund this project but later opted out citing heavy production cost. Lyca Productions have now taken up the movie.