News about veteran director Mani Ratnam producing Vaanam Kottatum under his banner Madras Talkies with his former associate Dhana roped in to wield the megaphone surfaced quite a while ago. Vikram Prabhu is on board to play the lead role in it and the film will have Madonna Sebastian and Aishwarya Rajesh as the female leads.

While the former would be paired opposite the hero, the latter will be seen playing his sister. According to latest reports, Shanthanu Bhagyaraj has joined the sets of this film and will be one of the leads in this multi starrer.

Radikaa and Sarath Kumar have been signed up to play supporting roles in this flick. Singer Sid Sriram will be making his debut as music composer with Vaanam Kottatum. This film is scheduled to hit the marquee next year and the release date is expected to be announced later.

Meanwhile, Shanthanu is expecting the release of two films - Raavana Koottam and Kasada Thapara, which are in different stages of production.

Kasada Thapara is directed by Chimbu Devan and bankrolled by Venkat Prabhu's Black Ticket Company banner and Ravindran's Trident Arts. An interesting feature about this film is that six editors and six cinematographers have worked in this film.

Ace editor A Sreekar Prasad revealed on his social media page that Antony, Kasi Viswanathan, Praveen KL, Rooban, Vivek Harshan, and Raja Mohammed were responsible for the film’s editing. And veteran cinematographer PC Sreeram revealed the six cameramen associated with KasadaThabara.

PC Sreeram revealed the names of the six cinematographers who worked on Kasada Thabara to be MS Prabhu, Vijay Milton, RD Rajasekhar, SR Kathir, Balasubramaniem and Sakthi Saravanan.

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