Thala Ajith's 'AK62' to start production next month in Mumbai

There is a lot of buzz surrounding Thala Ajith 's next movie with director Vignesh Shivan, mainly due to the rumors that Trisha will be acting alongside Ajith marking the fourth time she has worked with Ajith after Kreedam, Mankaatha, and Yennai Arindhaal.

Add in the fact the actor Arvind Swami has been cast as the main antagonist in the movie, and have Ajith fans hyped for the project.

The shooting for the project is scheduled to begin in the first week of February in Mumbai and is expected to wrap up in 35-40 days.

While the rest of the cast is yet to be announced, we do know that actor Santhanam will also be a part of the project.

Composer Anirudh will be handling the music for the project, marking the composer's fifth collaboration with director Vignesh Shivan.

The director's last project was the romantic comedy movie Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal, which starred Vijay Sethupathi, Nayanthara, and Samantha in the lead and was a success at the box office having grossed around 70 crores.

Meanwhile, Ajith's first movie of 2023, the heist-thriller movie Thunivu directed by H. Vinoth has a massive hit at the box office and has 125 crores, making it the second highest-grossing movie of the new year.

Thunivu was the third collaboration between Ajith and the director after 2019s Nerkonda Paarvai and 2022s Valimai.

The movie follows a group of mercenaries who are robbing a bank in Chennai and are led by Ajith. Thunivu marks the first on-screen pairing of Ajith and National award-winning Malayalam actress Manju Warrier, this will be her second Tamil movie after 2019s Asuran in which she co-starred with Dhanush.

The full cast of the movie includes Manju Warrier as Kanmani, Samuthirakani as Dayalan, Ajay as Ramachandran, GM Sundar as Muthazhagan, Veera as Radha, John Kokken as Krish, Bhagavathi Perumal as Rajesh, and Prem Kumar as Prem.

As for ' AK62 ', the movie is produced by Lyca Productions, with OTT rights bagged by streaming giant Netflix.

Thunivu is currently running in theaters.