Fahad in place of Ajith

The young sensation of Malayalam Film Industry, Fahad Fazil, will play a lead role in a Tamil Movie, instead of Ajith Kumar(Thala). The Movie will be directed by Thyagarajan Kumararaja. Critically acclaimed gangster film Aaranya Kaandam, which earned the Indira Gandhi  Award for Best First Film of a Director at the 59th National Film Awards, was Thyagarajan's debut Film.

Thyagarajan had been working on the script of this film for a long time and planned to place Ajith Kumar for the lead role in this project. But as per the reports, now Fahad will be playing the lead role replacing Ajith Kumar. This will be Fahad's debut Tamil Film.