That Atlee is directing Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan as the hero of his 5th movie has been an open secret of the movie industry for months now. There were even title speculations (Sanki) and last known, the team was supposedly in talks with a Bollywood producer, who already had rights to that title.

Latest on this project, which is also Atlee's Bollywood debut is that it will begin filming from March, 2020 and it is being suggested that it will be SRK's first film post his year long sabbatical from the movies [contrary to earlier speculations that SRK will begin his film with Stree writer duo first].