Exclusive: Sunil Locked for Karthi’s Japan

Currently, Kollywood star Karthi is in the success phase. Within two months, Karthi scored two back-to-back hits in the form of Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan-1 and the recently released Sardar helmed by PS Mithran in the span of two months.

Meanwhile, this morning Karthi’s new film had a formal launch ceremony. Being directed by Raju Murugan, the film’s pooja ceremony happened this morning in Chennai. Titled Japan, Urvashivo Rakshashivo fame Anu Emmanuel is roped in as the female lead in the movie. SR Prabhu is producing Japan movie under his Dream Warrior Pictures banner. GV Prakash Kumar is the music composer for Japan and Vijay Milton is cranking the camera.

Meanwhile, the latest we hear from our sources is that noted Tollywood actor Sunil is roped in as the antagonist in Japan. An official announcement regarding Sunil joining the team of Japan is likely to be out shortly. Japan marks the Tamil debut for Sunil. It is widely known that Sunil portrayed a negative shaded character in the 2020 direct-to-OTT release, Color Photo. On the other hand, Sunil is busy with a few big-budget Telugu films as a comedian.

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