Tamil director Arun Kumar aka Atlee ready to play Nayanthara’s next film with Shah Rukh Khan

supper star Shah Rukh Khan The Tamil director has joined hands with multi-award winner Arun Kumar, known professionally as Atlee, for the next untitled film. The news has been doing the rounds for quite some time now but it is now being reported that SRK, who was in Spain for the shoot of Siddharth Anand’s ‘Pathan’, has started work on the film in Pune. Shah Rukh is said to be playing the dual role of a father and a son. Incidentally, this will not be Atlee’s debut for Bollywood stars. His 2019 Tamil sports action film, ‘Bigil’, a Vijay-Nayanthara star vehicle, featured Jackie Shroff as one of the lead actors.

Atlee is famous for its 2017 action thriller, ‘Mersal’, which features music by AR Rahman and stars Vijay, SR Suryan, Samantha Akkineni and more. Kajal Aggrawal. The film’s cast also includes Nayanthara, known as the ‘Lady Superstar’ of South Indian cinema, and Sanya Malhotra, who played Babita Kumari in ‘Dangal’ and later ‘Shakuntala Devi’ and ‘Ludo’. He played memorable roles in

also put in Sunil GroverRecently appeared in the web series ‘Tandav’, but who first came to the public eye as Gutthi in ‘Comedy Nights by Kapil’.

Meanwhile, Shahrukh Khan has been away from the big screen for a long time. They were last seen together in Aanand L Rai’s 2018 film Zero Anushka Sharma And Katrina Kaif. Post the Covid lockdown, the actor has now returned to the shooting of his upcoming film Pathan. stars in the movie John abraham. Other details about the film are still a secret.

(with inputs from IANS)