After Alphonse Puthren announced his project, a Tamil film, there were speculations doing the rounds that he has approached Simbu to play the lead role. Recently Alphonse Puthren revealed some details of his new movie and one of his followers asked him if the movie will have Simbu in the lead role. Here's what the director replied - "No . Silamabarasan and i had discussions for another film. He is busy in AAA now...after that film and this film of mine we might sit again for a discussion..but we both are sure about one thing...that we need to entertain the audience...So not now may be later."

Alphonse's previous feature film Premam, which released in May 2015, ran for over 250 days in Chennai. Since then, the director has a massive fan following and so the director's next project will seemingly be highly anticipated as well.