Lokesh Kanagaraj is the most happening filmmaker of Kollywood right now. Having directed just two films so far, he impressed both audience and critics with the brilliance of his work. Being released with “Bigil”, one of the highly anticipated film of the year, “Kaithi” is running successfully across the theatres in Tamilnadu and screens has been increased due to the positive word of mouth.

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In his directorial feature debut, Lokesh made a thriller and titled it as “Maanagaram”, which performed well at the box office. He wrote the script and directed by describing the story’s structure as “hyperlinked” subplots. It has Sundeep Kishan, Sri, Regina Cassandra, Madhusudhan Rao, and Charle as the main cast.

His second film Kaithi revolves around a story of a released prisoner who spent 10 years of Jail sentence. On his way to meet his daughter for the first time, the protagonist was forced to help a senior police officer from deadly drug lords. In the midway of making Kaithi, Lokesh got the opportunity of directing Vijay, one of the most bankable star in Tamil film industry.

The film which is tentatively titled as Thalapathy 64, has Anirudh Ravichander as music composer and the film includes actor Vijay Sethupathi as the antagonist. Shanthanu, Antony Vargheese, Malavika Mohanan are some of the other actors who are the part of this film. As the fans of Tamil cinema are not relieved from the awe of the director’s growth, the next update about his directorial venture shook the Internet.

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The filmmaker is an ardent fan of actor/director Kamal Haasan which he said in many of his interviews. He even said that Kamal Haasan’s Virumaandi is the inspiration for his Kaithi. To our surprise, a recent update informed us that he is going to direct his idol Kamal Haasan as his next and the reports suggests that he signed it with Kamal’s own production house Raj Kamal Internationals.

Now according to experienced filmmaker, producer and actor, Chithra Lakshmanan, Lokesh Kanagaraj has ment Superstar Rajinikanth personally. Chithra in his youtube channel said that Rajinikanth called Lokesh Kanagaraj after watching “Kaithi”. When Rajinikanth asked Lokesh Kanagaraj about his next project, Lokesh reportedly said that he is going to do film with Kamal Haasan.

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Source : Touring Talkies

“A big debate has took place during the meeting of Kamal Haasan and Lokesh Kanagaraj. Kamal asked if Lokesh could direct any of the story he had written to which Lokesh replied by saying that he has no problem in doing it at all.” said Chithra in the video.

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However the director has requested Kamal Haasan to let him write a story for him. “If it didn’t work out we will work further accordingly” said Lokesh to Kamal Haasan according to Chithra Lakshmanan.