Vijay’s Leo cast gets bigger: After Sanjay Dutt, Anurag Kashyap joins Lokesh Kanagaraj’s film

Lokesh Kanagraj's Tamil directorial Leo stars Vijay in the leading role along with a strong star line-up of stars.

New Delhi | Updated: July 4, 2023 12:56 PM IST

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Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has joined the cast of Leo. (Photo:Twitter/sri50/Instagram/lokesh.kanagaraj)

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Actor Vijay’s much-awaited film Leo is getting bigger with more prolific artists joining the cast. Besides Vijay leading the film, Leo also stars Trisha, Gautham Menon, director Mysskin and Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt. Now, as per latest reports filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has also joined the cast of the film and will start shooting for his portions soon.

Chennai based film critic Sreedhar Pillai took to Twitter to announce the news. He wrote on Twitter, “Now noted director #AnuragKashyap joins other directors like #Mysskin & #GauthamMenon in playing a role in #ThalapathyVijay’s #LokeshKanagaraj directed big budget action extravaganza multi-starrer #Leo!”

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While details of Anurag’s role is not known yet, he is said to have already started shooting for his part in Chennai. Interestingly, after Mysskin and Gautham Menon, Anurag is the third director to come on board for the film as an actor. The film also features Sanjay in a powerful character, which is believed to be a negative role. With the addition of Anurag in the film, the excitement amongst fans has increased. A large portion of the film has been shot in Kashmir and a part of the crew has gone back to finish some patch work.

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Anurag had earlier expressed his desire to work with Lokesh. In a conversation with IndiaGlitz, he said, “I want to do a death scene in Lokesh’s film. He gives glorious death to his actors. I want to die in one of his films. I just don’t need a role. I need to just die in a glorious way in his film”.

Recently, the film’s first track Naa Ready was released for the fans. The lyrical video showed some behind-the scenes visuals with Vijay, Mansoor Ali Khan and Lokesh seen on the song’s set. Behind-the-scenes also showed Sanjay on sets, teasing fans about the probability of the Bollywood actor being part of the song, which is a typical Tamil ‘Kuthu’ number.

Leo is speculated to be part of Lokesh Kanagaraj’s cinematic universe which includes Kamal Haasan’s Vikram and Karthi starrer Kaithi. The film, also starring Trisha, Arjun Sarja, Priya Anand, Mysskin, Gautham Vasudev Menon, is set to release in theatres on October 19.

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