Kalaignar to have seven debutants

Director Shakthi G will wield the megaphone for a biopic based on the life of Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. The film, aptly titled Kalaignar, will start rolling from the first week of November. Shakthi said that he thoroughly researched the life of the CM for about two years before deciding to film it. Ilayaraja will score the music for this film and has taken

even the minute detail into consideration for the background score. Shakthi added that Illayaraja had elaborate discussions with him in this regard.

As the movie is based on the CM’s life since his birth to the present, the director has roped in seven male leads for the different phases of his life. All the actors in the film are new faces.