Vijay announces his next film ‘Thalapathy 68’ with Venkat Prabhu

Chennai: One of the most popular actors of Tamil cinema, ‘Thalapathy’ Vijay has announced that his next film will be with acclaimed director Venkat Prabhu. The film has been tentatively titled ‘Thalapathy 68’ and is slated to release in 2024. Details of other cast and crew are not known at the moment.

In a social media post on Sunday, Vijay said that Kalpana S. Produced by Aghoram’s AGS Entertainment, the film will have all the elements of a film one would expect from a young Kollywood superstar. This is the second film produced by AGS Entertainment after ‘Bigil’.

Director Venkat Prabhu has a distinct style of filmmaking and a film with Vijay can be a fascinating experience for the audience. Incidentally, this will be Vijay’s 68th film, whose popularity is second only to South Indian megastar Rajinikanth. His last film “Varisu” became Vijay’s first film to enter the Rs 300 crore club, making it his biggest hit of all time.

The Venkat Prabhu film’s music is by Yuvan Shankar Raja, whose experiments are said to have opened the ‘era of remixes’ for Kollywood. This is the second ‘Thalapathy’ Vijay film where Yuvan Shankar Raja will be giving music after “Pudhiya Geetai” in 2003.

Vijay will be next seen in “Leo”, directed by Tamil director Lokesh Kanagaraj. The film was shot in Kashmir and stars Trisha and Sanjay Dutt in lead roles. The film is slated for release on October 19, 2023. ‘Thalapathy’ Vijay will also be seen in a cameo in Shah Rukh-Nayanthara-starrer ‘Jawaan’.

Interestingly, Venkat Prabhu has become one of the very few in the Tamil industry to have made films with the popularity of Vijay and his on-screen rival Ajith. Venkat Prabhu has made superhit films like ‘Mankatha’, ‘Chennai 28’ and ‘Manadu’. His latest film, the Tamil-Telugu bilingual “Custody”, co-starring Telugu star Naga Chaitanya, released earlier this month.