We all know that Suriya, who is currently working on Maatraan with KV Anand, will be moving on to Singam 2, directed by Hari, after the completion of his current movie.

Hari is one of the best commercial mass masala filmmakers in Kollywood. His biggest plus is that he makes a big hero film on the given budget, completes the shoot in the allotted days and releases on time.

The latest is that the director is planning to have the pooja launch on July 14 and continue with the rest of the shoot by the end of this month.

The mass masala director is now all set to start his Suriya sequel Singam 2, before "Aadi Masam" starts. Hari conducted an audition for character artists to be selected for the film. In Hari's film character artists always play an important role and prop up the protagonist's heroism.

Nearly 1000 people turned up at AVM for the audition and nearly 20 were shortlisted for the film. Singam 2 has Suriya , Anushka and Hansika in the lead and has music by Devi Sri Prasad.
Singam 2 will be a sequel and the mass entertainer will start its shoot as soon as Suriya is through with KV Anand's Maatran.

Suriya will be paired up with both Anushka and Hansika in the movie. Vivek, Vijayakumar, Radha Ravi, Nasser, Rahman and Bollywood actor Mukesh Rishi. One major addition to the cast will be comedy actor Santhanam. Devi Sri Prasad, who scored music for Singam will be scoring the music for Singam 2 as well. Priyan handles the camera, while editing will be taken care of by V.T. Vijayan. Art is by Kadhir, and lyricists Na. Muthukumar, Viveka and Madhan Karki will be penning the songs. Singam 2 is to be produced by Lakshmanan of Prince Pictures.