Silambarasan's Kaala is shaping up fast. The young actor-director has grown long hair and has gone in for an image makeover for the movie.

Vedhika, who played the lead role opposite Lawrence Raghavendra in Muni, plays Silambarasan's lady love in Kaala.

The shooting for the movie is on at a rapid pace. A song sequence was shot in and around the Chennai city featuring Silambarasan and Vedhika.

Buzz is that Nila would shake her legs for an item number in the movie.

G V Prakash, nephew of A R Rahman, joins hands with Silambarasan for the first time.

Silambarasan plays the lead role with negative shades in the movie.

One of the big budgeted movies, plans are on to shoot the movie in various locales across the country.

Silambarasan is hopeful of getting Kaala released on Independence Day.