If the report which is coming is true, then it is almost fixed who is going to direct the next Ilaya Thalapathy film. There has been a lot of names popped up as the ones who is getting ready to direct an Ilaya Thalapathy. But that was all rumors and reports suggests that it will be director Bharathan who is going to make the 60th film of Vijay next year. Bharathan was the director of Vijay film Azhagiya Tamil Magan which released some years before. But it did not do much well at box office at that time. Now reports saying that the script Bharathan showed Vijay was very much impressive and that is why he had given his permission to start works rejecting other offers from many notable film makers.
Bharathan had written the dialogues for the film named Gilli, which was one of the biggest success in Vijay’s career. It was really a surprise news for the film lovers and specially for the fans of Vijay. They all thought it might be another prominent director who is going to make Vijay 60. But Vijay decided to give a chance to Bharathan as he was really pleased with the screenplay of the film.
This film will be financed by Vijaya productions owned by Nagi reddy who had financed Thala Ajith starrer film named Veeram last year. Bharathan was the one who wrote the dialogues for Veeram as well. Madhi will crank camera for this upcoming Vijay 60 and KL Praveen will be the editor of the film. The music department head is not finalized yet and the discussions were going on about who will compose the music for this film. The Pooja of the film will take place next Sunday as per reports and shoot will start in next year March. The pre-production works will be in full swing from this coming Sunday.
Vijay now doing his 59th film with director Atlee and in this film he is playing a full -fledged police officer character for the first time in his career. It is not yet titled as well.
