After being announced last year, director Venkat Prabhu's exciting new political entertainer Maanaadu which was to have Simbu playing the lead role, never took off. The movie had various developments but the team never got to shoot a single scene in the movie for many months.

After Simbu's travel to London and return, it was expected that the shoot will begin but it never happened, and after such constant delays, producer Suresh Kamatchi made the breaking announcement that Maanadu will not be made with Simbu but with another actor and announcement will be out soon.

Following this, Venkat Prabhu has tweeted expressing that it was unfortunate and as everything was time bound and since the producer had emotional and financial pressure, he had to respect the producer and make the movie without him. He tweeted "It’s very unfortunate that I couldn’t work with my brother #str in #maanaadu Everything is time bounded. Considering the amount of emotional and financial pressure that the producer is going through, I have to respect the decision taken by the producer. Thnks for all the love! "

It’s very unfortunate that I couldn’t work with my brother #str in #maanaadu Everything is time bounded. Considering the amount of emotional and financial pressure that the producer is going through, I have to respect the decision taken by the producer. Thnks for all the love! ????

— venkat prabhu (@vp_offl) August 8, 2019