Leo: Director Lokesh Kanagaraj adds another last-minute addition to the cast of the Vijay starrer

Malayalam actress Santhi Mayadevi is the latest addition to the still-growing cast of director Lokesh Kanagaraj's upcoming action-thriller Leo.

The actress shared a selfie with the director via social media after she joined the Chennai schedule of the movie.

Recently actor Jaffer Sadiq who played the role of Cutting Plier in Vikram has joined the cast of Leo, so it seems like the character will be making an appernce either in the climax of the movie or an in a post-credit scene.

According to a recent report Vijay's upcoming action entertainer Leo is expected to break the international records set by his first movie of 2023 Varisu.

The visual effects for the movie will be handled by Moving Picture Company, which has worked on Oscar-nominated Hollywood movies like Blade Runner 2049 and 1917.

Making Leo the third Indian movie the studio has worked on after the Telugu blockbuster RRR and the Bollywood horror-comedy Bhediya.

Leo is directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj and will be the third installment in the LCU following 2019's Kaithi which starred Karthi and 2022s Vikram which starred Kamal Haasan in the lead.

The movie is produced by S. S. Lalit Kumar and Jagadish Palanisamy under the banner Seven Screen Studio and reportedly has a budget of 300 crores.

There has been a lot of speculation about the plot of the movie and there is a rumor that the movie has a similar plot to the 2005 Hollywood action movie 'A History of Violence'.

In which a family man is forced to confront this violent past after he encounters someone from his old life as a gangster.

The main cast of the movie includes Vijay, Trisha, Arjun, Sanjay Dutt, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Mysskin, Mansoor Ali Khan, Priya Anand, Manobala, and Janany Kunaseelan.

Leo will hit theaters worldwide on 20 October 2023.