Only yesterday, we came to you with the breaking news that director Ahmed of Vamanan, Endrendum Punnagai and Manithan fame is currently working on a script for his next Tamil film. The information was revealed to us by cinematographer R. Madhie who has worked with the director in his last two films and will be working on this new project as well (Checkout his full coversation here). Now, it has been revealed exclusively to MovieCrow that this said project is an official remake of Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar's 2015 release, Baby. And if sources are to be believed, then actor Jayam Ravi will be seen reprising Akshay's role from the movie in Tamil.
Originally written and directed by Neeraj Pandey, Baby is an action spy thriller that follows the story of secret agents who set out to find and eliminate terrorists planning an attack in India. As pointed out by Madhie, the movie plans to take off only by the end of 2018 while Ahmed works on the script, the cinematographer finishes Saaho and Jayam Ravi his other commitments. An official confirmation on the same is yet to be made by the people involved.