Amaran: Director Rajkumar Periasamy Talks About Why He Roped In Sivakarthikeyan To Play The Lead Role FilmyMeet

Rajkumar Periasamy’s Amaran is all set to release soon. The movie is inspired by the life of late Major Mukund Varadarajan who was martyred in a counterterrorism operation in Jammu and Kashmir in 2014. The role of the late soldier will be played by Sivakarthikeyan. In a recent interview, the director revealed why he decided to cast Sivakarthikeyan for this role.

In a conversation with the media, while promoting Amaran in Malaysia, Rajkumar Periasamy talked about why he decided to rope in Sivakarthikeyan to play the lead role. The director revealed that he zeroed in on the actor because of how he has portrayed the common man in his movies so far. He mentioned that the late soldier was a common man who went on to do extraordinary things in his life. Periasamy added that he went ahead with Sivakarthikeyan as he is still connected to the audience despite his stardom.

Amaran is based on a book, India’s Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military by Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh. The book is based on the life of the late Major Mukund Varadarajan. While Sivakarthikeyan has been roped in to play the lead role, Sai Pallavi will be seen as the leading lady. She will be portraying the role of the late soldier’s wife – Indhu. The makers of the film recently released the first look of Indhu’s character from Amaran. The video showed their love story from her eyes.

Apart from Sivakarthikeyan and Sai Pallavi, Amaran will also star Bhuvan Arora, Rahul Bose, Lallu, Shreekumar, and Shyam Mohan in pivotal roles. The biographical film has been bankrolled by Kamal Haasan. It will be released in cinemas on October 31.

On the work front, Sivakarthikeyan was recently seen in Thalapathy Vijay’s The Greatest Of All Time in a special appearance role. The actor is also working on a film with AR Murugadoss where he will be playing the lead role. It has been tentatively titled SK23.