‘Kanthasamy’ happens to be one of the ‘Big Tickets’ of this season produced by Kalaipuli Dhanu for an astounding cost of Rs.60 Crores. The film is directed by Susi Ganeshan who earlier made ‘5 Star’ and ‘Thiruttu Payale’.The film starring ‘Chiyaan’ Vikram and Shriya Charan in lead role. As per sources, this film would be of Indian version of "Robin Hood" type of movies. This movie is produced bilingual and in Telugu they titled as "Mallanna".

Director Susi planned to shoot the film in Kenya but due to local problems in Kenya the cast and crew went on to Mexico to suit major song sequences. The Mexican locations will be new to Tamil film fans. Indrajith, elder brother of Hero actor Prithviraj, playing the Villain role and it would be an added advantage to the film as Tamil fans seeing the same Villains for years. Devi Sri Prasad has tuned peppy numbers with Vikram himself crooning 4 songs.An exceptional magnum opus in the career of Vikram! Of course, he has already donned the most stunning roles in his previous films, but this one is unparalleled for he has crooned commendably for 4 tracks in this movie.


This film is already in the news for its costume specially designed from Bangkok for the lead pair.Recently, actor Vikram finished dubbing for both the versions in Tamil and Telugu at Trinity Studios.This is the first ever Superhero film made in South Indian Film Industry. Kalaipuli S Dhanu's Sri Surya Arts will release the film on Independence Day weekend over 900 screens in both the versions.