Vijay's Puli shooting is taking place in Seshachalam forest near Tirupati and the unit is quite shocked to hear about the encounter that took place near the shooting spot on Tuesday.

Viewers are aware that 20 Red-Saunders were allegedly killed in a police encounter at Seshachalam forest near Tirupati. The Puli unit including Vijay, Shruti Haasan and others were shooting at a place that is 30 km away from the encounter spot.

"Vijay, Shruti and several others from the team were surprised to see scores of police check posts enroute Talakona. We had no idea that such a big encounter had happened in the area. Our shooting spot is very secluded and the entire unit shuddered after realizing that they were so close to the action," says an insider.

However, Puli shooting continued unaffectedly, he claimed.

"Puli" is a fantasy adventure movie directed by Chimbu Devan. The Tamil movie features Kannada superstar Sudeep as an antagonist. Shruti Haasan and Hansika Motwani will appear as female leads in the movie.

Legendary actress Sridevi will be seen in a pivotal role and will play role of a queen and as Hansika's mother. Sridevi's last Tamil movie was "Naan Adimai Illai" (1986) and her Tamil fans are expecting her to make a marvellous comeback with the Vijay starrer.

The film also has Prabhu, Nandita, Vijayakumar, Thambi Ramaiah, Naren, Soori, Joe Malloori, Ajay Rathnam, Ali, Srinivasan, Vidyullekha Raman and others are in the cast.

The film is produced by S Thameens and PT Selvakumar under the banner of SKT Movies.