Much to the shock of those in the film industry, Samantha has walked out of ace director Mani Ratnam’s prestigious project ‘Kadal’! Mani is currently on the look out for a new face to replace her.

The film has made several headlines as it brings back Mani Ratnam to what he is best at, an out and out romantic entertainer and marks the debut of Karthik’s son Gautham. Several scenes have already been shot and the shoot was taking place in locales near Kanyakumari until recently.

There are several rumors that are doing the rounds that the actress walked out of the project due to several other offers, a date clash between her and cinematographer Rajeev Menon and that the actress was recently suffering a skin allergy due to shoot in the water!

She currently has bilingual ‘Naan Ee’, trilingual ‘Neethanae En Ponvasantham’, a film with Shankar – Vikram and is likely to sign on ‘Biriyani’ with Karthi, all these apart from a number of Telugu films.

However it’s quite shocking that the actress walked out of such a big project! We’ll have to wait to see what she has to say about this.