Director Ashwath Marimuthu promises to bring back vintage Silambarasan TR in AGS Productions’ STR 49 

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Dum + Manmadhan + Vallavan + Vtv
in Gen Z mode = NAMBA NEXT !!! ❤️‍🔥

— Silambarasan TR (@SilambarasanTR_) October 19, 2024

In the announcement poster, we indeed see the mid 2000s Silambarasan coming to the fore, including his famed hand gestures, and it promises to be a riot. In fact, Ashwath Marimuthu listed out the various tools he used to bring back the vintage STR. Titled “Announcement photo of STR: Things that define him”, the props included a star, heart/broken heart, the ‘Corrected Machi’ symbol, black rope around wrist, cycle chain, blade, metal rings, scarf around one hand, musical notation tattoos, green ring (tease of the film), and the white shirt and blue faded jeans he wore in the song “Manmadhane” from the movie, Manmadhan. 

Ashwath’s list to recreate vintage Silambarasan in StR 49

The first look poster includes all these props, and has made all the right noises on social media, as the hype for the film has already reached feverish proportions. While there have been no official confirmation about the cast and crew, it would be interesting to see if Ashwath ropes in his usual composer Leon James for the project, which just might be his long-awaited entry into the big league. 

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Apart from this film, Silambarasan is also part of Mani Ratnam’s Thug Life, which is headlined by Kamal Haasan. He was also supposed to star in Kamal Haasan’s home production, STR 48, directed by Desingh Periasamy, but there has been no update on that front.