In Pictures: Ilayathalapathy Vijay gives his fans a 'Theri

In Pictures: Ilayathalapathy Vijay gives his fans a 'Theri

Ilayathalapathy Vijay is back from his New Year holiday in Dubai and is just wrapping up his film with director Atlee. The movie titled Theri has been in the news in the last few months. For Pongal, the filmmakers released some new stills from the film. Director Atlee has also revealed some interesting details about the movie. He says when he narrated the script to Vijay, the actor was so taken in that he said immediately said, 'yes, let's do it'. Vijay also felt that the movie would connect with the audience well.

The actor plays a cop in the film

Actor Vijay plays a cop named Vijaykumar in this movie. Director Atlee told a popular Tamil magazine that the actor plays a police officer who is emotional and down-to-earth.

Vijay in a song sequence

The actor is paired with Samantha and Amy Jackson in this movie. Director Atlee has stated that both the actresses will have equal footage in this film. Atlee stated that this would be similar to his previous film Raja Rani where both Nayanthara and Nazriya had equal footage and importance in the movie. However, not much has been revealed about their roles.

Vijay is a good dancer and from the stills of the songs released, it looks like there will be plenty for his fans. The song visuals look colourful, trendy and peppy too. Music director GV Prakash is sure to have come with some good numbers for this movie. GV, as he is called, was the music director of Vijay's Thalaivaa as well. In Theri, the actor has sung a song called 'Chellakutty'. He usually sings at least one song in his films.

Director Atlee on set with Vijay

According to director Atlee, this movie will provide 100% entertainment and is a family film. There will be action, comedy, romance and a social message as well. Vijay has put in tremendous effort for the film and there are some new action elements as well, like an underwater fight sequence.

The movie will wrap up shoot in January and is being planned for a Tamil New Year release i.e. April 2016.

           Why Vijay chose Bharathan for his 60th film

As it has been confirmed that Bharatan will be directing Ilayathalapathy Vijay's 60th, film a section of people started trolling the move as Vijay's previous association with Bharathan for 'Azhagiya Tamil Magan' resulted in a box office failure.

But many who are cynical and skeptical about Vijay's decision, do not know that the story of ATM was not written by Bharathan and it was not the one he intended to make a film with Vijay.

Sources in Kollywood who have been keeping a tab on Vijay's development over the years reveal an insider's story behind the entire episode, which has prompted Vijay to give another film for Bharathan who needs a crucial break in career. We present it to Indiaglitz readers with a precaution that this may be a rumor.

Bharathan narrated a story written by him when he got the first opportunity to direct Vijay. However, the actor insisted Bharathan to write the screenplay and dialogues for another story which had impressed him and make a film on that. Bharathan accepted Vijay's suggestion and made the film.

Bharathan delighted Vijay as a comfortable technician to work with. He completed the shooting of the film within the time frame promised by him.

More importantly, after the release of the film and its poor response at the box office, Bharatan never spoke anything bad about Vijay's decision to go with the story and never lamented to anyone that his debut would have been successful if he was allowed to direct the story he had in mind for Vijay.

This quality of not pointing fingers for an unfortunate result has highly impressed Vijay and that's why the star decided to work again with Bharathan who desperately needs a chance to prove his mettle as a director. 'Vijay 60' will have the story and script written by Bharathan.

it is worth noting that Bharathan has written the dialogues for Vijay's blockbuster 'Ghillie' and Ajith's super hit film 'Veeram' directed by Dharani and Siva respectively. Bharathan has also directed 'Athithi' the Tamil remake of a Malayalam film which was critically acclaimed.