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Actor Vidyut Jammwal will feature in filmmaker N Lingusamy's Hindi remake of his Tamil film
Paiyaa.
Paiyaa will mark Lingusamy's debut as a director in Bollywood. He made the original 2010 film featuring Karthi Sivakumar and Tamannaah Bhatia.
Vidyut has previously worked with the director in
Anjaan along with Tamil actor Suriya. His spokesperson confirmed the news. (Also Read:
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"Lingusamy has previously worked with Vidyut in
Anjaan, his last Tamil film. They got along really well and developed a great equation. So it was only a matter of time before he decided to work with Vidyut again," the source said.
The makers are also in the process of casting a female lead."The script has not been locked in yet. But they are completely adapting the original script for Bollywood. They are incorporating a significant amount of action scenes given that it's Vidyut's forte," the source added.
Paiyaa narrates the journey of two strangers - a jobless carefree man, living in Bangalore, and a woman with whom he has fallen in love. He drives her to Mumbai on her request while a group of gangsters follow them, planning to kidnap the woman.
"His character is similar to the original. The nuances are being worked on now. He plays a young boy who's always on a job hunt," the source said.