Superstar Rajnikanth who was seen earlier this year in Karthik Subbaraj directed Petta, had next worked on his 167th movie Darbar teaming with director AR Murugadoss for the first time, and the movie is produced by Lyca Productions which earlier produced 2.0 with the actor.

Darbar was shot mostly in Mumbai and the movie has Superstar playing a police officer after few decades. The movie also has Lady Superstar Nayanthara, Nivetha Thomas, Prateik Babbar, Suniel Shetty, Yogi Babu and many others and has music by Anirudh.

It was recently revealed that Nivetha Thomas might be seen as Rajnikanth's daughter in the movie, and now Nivetha Thomas had tweeted "And now for the world to know!There is and will only be ONE #AadityaArunachalam And he, is MY Appa. Watch! Out! #Darbar" thereby confirming her role.

And now for the world to know!

There is and will only be ONE #AadityaArunachalam

And he, is MY Appa.

Watch! Out!#Darbar ??

— Nivetha Thomas (@i_nivethathomas) October 18, 2019