Ajith's Billa 2 to take-off on June 20

Ajith Kumar's prestigious Billa prequel is finally ready to take-off. If reports are to be believed, the movie will hit the floors on June 20.

Billa 2, under the direction of Chakri Toleti, will start its shooting in Hyderabad. The director has rewritten the script after Vishuvardhan, who directed the first instalment of the film and has opted out of the project. The story is about David's journey from an ordinary man to a don.

Delhi-based model Huma Qureshi will pair up Ajith Kumar in Billa 2. Bruna Abdullah is playing the second lead role in the film and Prabhu, Rahman, Krishnakumar are also in the cast. Suresh Balaje and George Pius are jointly producing the film.

Among the other technical cast, Yuvan Shankar Raja has been roped in to score the music and Hemant Chaturvedi is the director of photography.

MANKATHA AJITH DIALOGUE RELEASED:

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Vedi vachu Odaikka naan onnum MALA illa da.

Tamil naatoda THALA da....


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Mankatha in July

Ajith's eagerly awaited Mankatha, directed by Venkat Prabhu and produced by Dhayanidhi Alagiri's Cloud Nine, will complete its shoot by May 31.

After that, Venkat plans to do some graphics and post production work which will take a month. As of now the producers are looking at a July second week release.

Mankatha is Ajith's 50th film and the star cast includes Arjun, Trisha, Mahat, Vaibhav Reddy, Lakshmi Rai, Andrea Jeremiah, Premji Amaren and Anjali. It has music by Yuvan Shankar Raja.

The film is said to revolve around a Mafia gang gambling during the cricket season. Ajith plays the kingpin behind the gambling, though there are rumours that he is a police officer in decoy. Arjun plays a CBI officer, while Trisha is a gangster's daughter.

AR Murugadoss to direct Ajith Kumar!

Ace director AR Murugadoss will reportedly direct ultimate star Ajith Kumar in his next film. If reports are to be believed, the former has impressed the latter with a story for which the actor has given his consent to act in the film.

Rumours has it that AR Murugadoss has approached Ajith Kumar and has narrated the story in brief. The actor without any hesitation has given the green signal and has asked to come up with the complete script. 

Currently, AR Murugadoss is fully occupied with Surya and Shruti Hassan starrer 7 Aum Arivu. He is planning to release the movie in July. Whereas, Ajith Kumar is completely busy with Mangaatha. It is expected to hit the screens in June. Soon after this project, he will kick-start his much-publicized Billa 2. 

Murugadoss-Ajith project is expected to commence in early 2012. However, it may be recalled that they have worked before in Dheena, which went on to become a superhit movie of 2001.