Finally, an official announcement has been made by Gautham Menon’s Photon Kathas regarding ‘Thuppariyum Anandhan’. As rumored few days back the film will go on floors with Suriya playing the lead.

Suriya will don a detective’s cap after acting as a rough tough cop in ‘Singham 2’ with Hari. The actor has signed on the dotted lines for this project; meanwhile Gautham will wrap ‘Yohan Adhyayam Ondru’, a spy thriller with Vijay.

“When Gautham and I come together, people expect romance, great songs and action. Thuppariyum Anandhan will offer all this and much more in style”, says Suriya Sivakumar.

‘Thuppariyum Anandhan’ will be a period film in contemporary style and will be an action adventure. The film will go on floors in the beginning of 2013. It maybe mentioned Ajith was initially approached for this role few years back.

Suriya – Gautham have earlier worked together in ‘Khaaka Khaaka’ and ‘Varanam Aayiram’.