Thalapathy Vijay's ardent fans an movie lovers in general are eagerly awaiting the release of his next movie 'Leo' directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj. The film with music by Anirudh and starring an ensemble cast that includes Trisha and Sanjay Dutt is hitting the screens worldwide on October 19th.

Now the hot news has come that Vijay's next movie 'Thalapathy 68' will go on floors almost three weeks before the release of 'Leo'. The film directed by Venkat Prabhu and produced by AGS Productions reportedly will have a formal pooja on October 1st and the shooting will begin from October 2nd.

'Thalapathy 68' is likely to have the fresh pairing of Vijay and Priyanka Mohan with Madhavan, Prashanth, Prabhu Deva, Sneha and Aamir Khan reportedly in talks for other important characters. The confirmations on this will be known in a couple of weeks time.

So far it is confirmed that Yuvan Shankar Raja will be scoring the music and that Vijay will be donning dual or triple roles that will be the major highlight apart from a unique storyline and screenplay. Vijay, already went to the US along with Venkat Prabhu and Archana Kalpathi for the VFX 3D scanning process for the mutliple roles. It is also said that most of the shooting will be done in Chennai and all the songs will be shot in foreign locations. Stay tune for the official updates that we will have for you the minute we have them.