Director Maniratnam, known for his unique romantic entertainers and socially relevant, hard-hitting scripts, had last directed the love story of a chauvinistic pilot and a doctor who's caught between her love and her self-respect, in Kaatru Veliyidai / Cheliya starring Karthi and Aditi Rao Hydari, which bombed at the box office miserably.
However, he's ready to begin his next, a hard-hitting Action thriller with a social message in Chekka Chivandha Vaanam / Nawab, a Multi-starrer starring Vijay Sethupathi, Simbu, Arvind Swamy, Arun Vijay, Aditi Rao Hydari, Prakashraj, Jyothika, Aishwarya Rajesh, Jayasudha, Thyagarajan.
The film begins shooting this month, and the team is planning to wrap the whole shooting of CVV by May in a continuous 55-day schedule and plans to release the movie in June. It has been speculated that the movie, which will be shot extensively in Mumbai, Dubai, and Chennai, will be set at the backdrop of a gangster family and a nuclear power project.
