Varalaru written for Rajni and Kamal

In a recent interview to a private television channel, director K S Ravikumar was heard discussing many interesting anecdotes in his film career spanning more than a decade. While he was conversing about his recent successful film Varalaru with Ajith, he had many fascinating trivia up his sleeve which he was only too willing to share with the audience.

The story of Varalaru was initially written keeping Kamal Hassan in mind and was narrated to him. But some how, Tenali took over Varalaru and was completed. Then Ravikumar moved on to super star Rajnikanth and recounted the story. Incidentally, talks about Jaggubai surfaced but unfortunately it has to be dropped as the story had too many shades of similarities with Badshah. Then Chandramukhi happened for Rajni and the rest as they say is history. But apparently Rajnikanth was so impressed about the storyline of Varalaru that he expressed his desire to do this subject at a later date.

Meanwhile Varalaru was completed with Ajith in the lead and the film registered an emphatic victory at the box office and proved a milestone in Ajith’s career too. After witnessing Varalaru, super star on a lighter vein has remarked that Ravikumar should have waited for him to do Varalaru.