Rajinikanth’s next film that is going to be directed by K.S.Ravikumar will have popular Telugu actor Jagapathi Babu in an interesting role. Jagapathi Babu’s career is going great guns in Telugu film industry with his recent movie, 'Legend', has changing the way his career has been progressing. He is being flooded with many roles and now he has bagged a key role in the next film of Superstar in Tamil.

Jagapathi Babu is very excited to be acting with the super star Rajinikanth. "All set to share the screen with the thalaiva, the emperor of Indian film industry, #Rajinikanth in one of my forthcoming projects. Excitement is an understatement", the actor posted in his social networking page.

Bollywood lass Sonakshi Sinha and Anushka will be pairing up with Rajinikanth in this project and the movie is expected to go on floors soon. It is well-known that Jagapathi Babu has bagged the key roles in Mahesh Babu - Koratala Siva film and Manchu Manoj's film in G.Nageswara Reddy's direction recently.

Earlier Jagapathi babu and Rajinikanth have acted together in Telugu film 'Kathanayakudu', which was released in 2008. The Tamil version of the same was ‘Kuselan’ in which Pasupathy reprised the role played by Jagapathi Babu.