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Billa (2007) is a forthcoming high budget Tamil film directed by Vishnuvardhan. The film is produced by L.Suresh , son of Balaji. His father produced the film, Billa which this is a remake of the Rajinikanth starrer Billa which was a remake of the Hindi film, Don. Ajith Kumar, Nayanthara and Shriya Saran are the only confirmed cast as yet. Yuvan Shankar Raja is set to compose the music for this film and a couple of old numbers are going to be remixed. The film is set for release in late 2007 or early 2008. Shooting will start after Ajith Kumar's next projects, Aalwar and Kireedom are completed and when Vishnuvardhan's Sarvam has been completed .

Plot Synopsis

Template:Spoiler In 2007, the drug trade is booming. The Malaysian Intelligence and Anti-Narcotic Department are called upon for assistance by their Indian counterparts. There are rumours that a drug gang has recently moved their headquarters to Kuala Lumpur.

Billa (Ajith Kumar) is the leader of an underworld gang until the police commissioner tracks him down and kills him. Then police commissioner tracks down a lookalike of Billa who impersonates Billa to take down the rest of Billa's gang while the police commissioner promises him that he will give a proper education to the children that he is looking after. But in an unexpected turn of events the police commissioner dies.

The police commissioner is the only one who knows the truth about our impersonator who now finds himself in a life-threatening situation - hunted by both the cops and the real Billa's henchmen and to make matters worse, he then finds out that Interpol Officer is a crook and has taken the place of the real person. He is the one responsible for the police commissioner's murder. It's now a race to retrieve a the police commissioner's diary in which the police commissioner has documented his substitution of the real Billa.

Cast

Crew

• Director: Vishnuvardhan
• Screenplay: Vishnuvardhan
• Story: Salim Khan, Javed Akhtar
• Dialogue: Vishnuvardhan
• Script: Vishnuvardhan
• Producer: L.Suresh
• Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
• Choreography: Raju Sundaram
• Visual Effects: Red Chillies VFX
• Editor: A. Sreekar Prasad
• Director of Photography: Nirav Shah
• Line Producer Malaysia: Khabir Bhatia
• Production Manager Malaysia: Shasha Mohd Yusof
• Location Manager Malaysia: Shaiful Azwira Abdul Jabbar
• Talent Coordinator Malaysia: Norafizah Jaja

Music

The film has songs composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, two of which have been re-mixed from the original film, which had M. S. Viswanathan as the music composer:

• "My Name is Billa" - S. P. Balasubramaniam
• "Vethialaya Pottendy" - Malaysia Vasudevan

Trivia

• Don, the Bollywood blockbuster of the 1980s, was remade with contemporary idioms recently in Bollywood.

• The original Don was remade in Tamil in the 1980s as Billa.

• Billa is now being remade and reinvented in Tamil.

• Getting into the act will be Ajith Kumar. And directing it will be Vishnuvardhan, the modern Tamil director.

• L. Suresh Balaji of Ananda Pictures will produce this film. Nirav Shah will handle the camera. Yuvan Shankar Raja will score the music.

• Shahrukh Khan’s Don is a big hit. In fact, such remakes are now the norm in Bollywood.

• To make a Rajini movie as a remake takes guts and strength of character. And Ajith has shown that he has it in him.

• Ajith Kumar has also got the go-ahead from Rajini.

• The film will begin rolling in March 2007.

• Vishnuvardhan, sources claim, had been toying with this idea for long.

References

1. "Ajith to do Billa". Indiaglitz. Retrieved 28 December. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); External link in |work= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
2. "Back with a bang". Tamil Guardian. Retrieved 28 December. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); External link in |work= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
3. "Billa 2007- Shriya and Trisha vie for spots". Behindwoods. Retrieved 28 December. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); External link in |work= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)

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