Finally, shooting for Kamal Haasan’s next movie has started at Ramoji Rao Film City, Hyderabad.

However, the title of the film has changed to ‘Unnaipol Oruvan’ from ‘Thalaivan Irukkiraan’. The film will be bilingual in Tamil and Telugu.

Unnaipol Oruvan is a remake of Neeraj Pandey’s directed critically acclaimed Hindi small budget film ‘A Wednesday’.

Chakri Toleti is directing the movie. Raajkamal International and U TV Motion Pictures will produce the film jointly.

The movie has Kamal Haasan and Mohanlal in lead roles.

Kamal Haasan will play the role of a frustrated citizen, done by Naseerudin Shah in the original, while Malayalam star Mohanlal will be seen in the role of a cop, which was portrayed to perfection by Anupam Kher.

However, Venkatesh will play Mohanlal’s role in the Telugu version, named ‘Ee Nadu’, which will be release in Kerela concurrently.

Shruthi Haasan will be debuting as the music director in this movie.

The film does not have a female lead but the Hindi version had the role of a television journalist, played by Deepal Shaw.

A trailer of Unnai Pol Oruvan, running a minute is being shown in Tamil channels.