Official statement about Mani Ratnam's next arrives

While there were numerous speculations and guesses on ace director Mani Ratnam’s next, here comes the official statement from his Madras Talkies which would be bankrolling his next film.

The announcement states, “Madras Talkies' Mega Budget multi-starrer rendezvous as 'Production No.17'. It is a star-studded flick with Arvind Swami, Simbu, Vijay Sethupathi, Fahadh Fasil, Jyothika, Aiswarya Rajesh and many others playing the lead roles”.

While the storym screenplay, dialogues and direction will be taken over by Mani Ratnam, his regular AR Rahman is composing the music. Santosh Sivan will be the DoP while Sreekar Prasad will be the editor. The shoot for this mega budget multi-starrer movie would start in January 2018. The film is yet to be titled and reports say that the team in busy in the pre-production work.

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