Noted Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff, who successfully cast magic spells in Bollywood playing versatile roles, is venturing to do a film in Tamil now.

The handsome actor will play the lead role in a movie titled 'Aranya Kandam', to be produced by Capital Film Works. Kumara Raja, who penned the script for 'Oram Po' and worked as associate to 'Rajeev Menon' and 'Pushkar – Ghayathri', is directing the film.

The movie has Sampath Raj and Ravikrishna playing prominent roles. Impressed with the storyline, Jackie readily agreed to do the film.

At a time when Tamil actresses and technicians are going to Bollywood, Kollywood is getting ready to welcome a prominent actor from Mumbai to play a lead role in a Kollywood film.