Kamal Haasan is all set for his upcoming film Vikram. The superstar is making a comeback on the silver screen after four years. When he was askig about the break, the Nayakan actor said that he was doing something important for the people of Tamil Nadu.
Talking to IANS about the four-year break, Kamal agreed that it has been long but it was for an important cause.
“I was doing something very important for people of my state. I was in politics. I am still in politics. I took permission to do this film. My party people are complaining. They are happy that they are getting to see me in a film but they are happy to see more of me in politics.”
It was in February 2018, Kamal formally launched his political party, Makkal Needhi Maiam, a regional party in the state of Tamil Nadu and union territory of Puducherry. The 67-year-old auteur was last seen on screen in Vishwaroopam II in the same year.
Vikram, backed by Kamal Haasan’s production house Raaj Kamal Films International, is scheduled for a June 3 release. Besides the superstar, the Lokesh Kanagaraj film has Vijay Sethupathy and Malayalam actor Fahad Faasil playing the lead characters with music scored by Avinash Ravichander.