Actor Vishal had scored a success last year with the action packed cyber thriller Irumbuthirai, directed by debutant PS Mithran, and the movie had Vishal playing an army major Kathiravan, who has to fight a deadly cyber criminal White Devil aka Sathyamurthy played by Action King Arjun.

The movie, which had music by Yuvan Shankar Raja and also starred Samantha, Delhi Ganesh and Robo Shankar turned out to be one of the profitable ventures of the first half of the year, and it with the antagonist character White Devil played by Arjun still alive at the end of the movie, it was expected that there will be a sequel.

Now it has been revealed that Irumbuthirai 2 is in the making, and this sequel will be helmed by a debutant director named Anand, as PS Mithran is currently directing Hero with Siva Karthikeyan. Irumbuthirai 2 has already begun shooting and hero Vishal is expected to join the sets next month, as he is currently shooting for Sundar.C's untitled flick.