![]() The team began the shoot in April 2017 in Gerugambakkam in the outskirts of Chennai, with actors including Samuthirakani, Mime Gopi, Rajendran and Bala Saravanan joining the cast. Meenakshi, a debutant actress from Kerala, was signed on for the leading female role. As the film was set in Madurai, Muthiah wanted to cast someone from town - and Shanmuga Pandian fit the bill of a tall, young guy, who naturally has a Madurai slang. He stated that following the protest, he tweaked the script and removed all explanations about the sport, because most people had become familiar with and grown to understand the terms used in jallikattu. ![]() Muthiah revealed that he had written the script for the film in June 2016, based on jallikattu, much before the release of Hiphop Tamizha's popular video on jallikattu and also before the 2017 pro-jallikattu protests, and was glad that the events raised the profile of his script. ![]() However Vijayakanth's ill health meant that the project was postponed and Shanmuga Pandian moved on to work on Madura Veeran, which would mark the directorial debut of cinematographer and producer P.
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