Acclaimed director Bharathiraja's forthcoming Tamil venture Bommalattam hit the floors at Malaysia recently. The movie supposedly a Tamil remake of his Bollywood movie Cinema starring Nana Patekar features Arjun in the lead role. This is the first time Arjun is acting in Bharathiraja's movie. Malaysian Minister Datto Samuel took part in the movie's muhurrat.

Speaking on the occasion, Bharathiraja heaped praises on Nana Patekar for his acting skills and said spontaneity was his keyword.  Arjun, on his part, said,'It was a dream come true experience for him to act in Bharathiraja's film. He was one of the directors who amazed me and I wanted to be part of his film. At last, my dream is realized with Bommalattam.

Interestingly Bommalattam has dialogues by director Agathiyan and music by Himesh Reshammiya.