Director Pa. Ranjith is a vocal icon for women's rights and has been instrumental in bringing progressive feminist themes to mainstream Tamil cinema.

He furtherly stressed , "Caste is a terrible weapon and leaders like Dr B R Ambedkar, who came three generations before me, also fought for this,"

This picture of Kamal's team-up with the legends which leads to speculations that the veteran actor may do his next project with any of these biggies of Kollywood.

Bommai Nayagi has music by Sundaramurthy KS and satellite and digital rights have been bagged by the Zee network.

The story was reportedly told to Vikram by filmmaker Ranjith in 2014, but production on the film reportedly didn't begin until July 15 of this year.