Vikram act Deputy Commissioner of Police in next flim Vedi

Raavanan is a forthcoming Tamil film written, produced and directed by Mani Ratnam.

The film stars Vikram, Aishwarya Rai and Prithviraj Sukumaran in
the lead roles, with a supporting cast comprising of Prabhu
Ganesan, Karthik Muthuraman, Priyamani and Munna.

The film is expected to be released on 18 June 2010, along with its dubbed Telugu version titled Villain.

The film is also simultaneously shot in Hindi as Raavan with a slightly different cast.

In 2008, Vikram was signed up to portray the male lead antagonist of Raavanan while Prithviraj Sukumaran was cast in the protagonist role.

Whilst in Hindi, its role-reversal for Vikram, as he plays the protagonist and Abhishek Bachchan plays the antagonist.

Aishwarya Rai will play the female lead in both versions of the film.

Shooting began in the southern part of India at the end of October 2008. During filming, Mani Ratnam became ill which delayed the filming for a few months in 2009.

However, the film began its last schedule in August 2009. The film finished filming and went into post production by October 2009.

V. Manikandan was hired as the film's cinematographer. However he was replaced in early 2009 by Santosh Sivan.This film has numerous action scenes and stunts performed by the actors.

The Kerala martial art form kalarippayattu is also featured in the film. Dancer Astad Deboo choreographed a passionate chase

scene and tandav dance between Vikram and Aishwarya Bachchan for the film.

Indian fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee designed Aishwarya Rai's costumes in the film.

Filming has taken place in numerous locations around India including the forests of Kerala, Ooty, Jhansi, Kolkata, Mahabaleshwar and in the Malshej Ghats in Maharashtra.

While filming in Kerala, the production temporarily ran afoul of forest officials for not following regulations; the issues were resolved by October 22.

The soundtrack for the film is composed by A. R. Rahman with lyrics penned by Vairamuthu. It features 6 songs and was released on 5 May by Sony Music.

Actor Vikram, who plays two different roles in Maniratnam’s forthcoming flick ‘Raavanan’ in two versions, is now going to appear in the role of Deputy Commissioner of Police in his next film ‘Vedi’ to be directed by Boopathy Pandian. Ileana plays the lady love of Vikram in the film.

The movie is produced by Mohan Natarajan and Devi Sri Prasad will be scoring the music. They say that the movie will be a mix of action, comedy and romance.

Insiders close to the director says that the director has taken immense care while writing the script so that there are no loopholes in it and surely it would be a mass masala to Chiyaan fans.