Veteran star hero, Politician Late Vijayakanth shares deep.bond with Thalapathy Vijay. During early days of Vijay's career, Captain Vijayakanth recommended him for many films providing him offers. An interesting news has been doing rounds that Vijayakanth will be seen in Vijay's upcoming film, 'The Greatest Of All Time', GOAT.
Politician and wife of late actor-politician Vijayakanth, Premalatha has confirmed that her husband will be a part of Vijay's Greatest Of All Time (GOAT), directed by Venkat Prabhu. In her recent interview to a Tamil YouTube channel, Premalatha said Vijay and Venkat Prabhu met her on several occasions in Chennai while she was on a brief break after election campaigning.
She said the director sought her permission to portray Vijayakanth using AI in GOAT and confirmed that the two-time MLA will make his presence on the silver screen in the Vijay-starrer. GOAT team wanted to pay him perfect homage to Vijayakanth with a role suits him.
The first single, 'Whistle Podu' , of the movie was released on April 14. The song is penned by Madhan Karky and sung by Vijay. Written and directed by Venkat Prabhu, the cast of GOAT also includes Mohan, Jayaram, Sneha, Laila, Meenakshi Chaudhary, Vaibhav, Premgi Amaren, and Yugendran Vasudevan. The makers of the film recently announced that GOAT is all set to hit the theatres on September 5.