Santhanam pips Siva Karthikeyan

Comedy Super Star Santhanam and Siva Karthikeyan were within the race for Tamil remake of S S Rajamouli’s Telugu hit Maryada Ramanna, but finally it has come right down to Santhanam. The producers have roped in director Kannan to helm the film in Kollywood.Santhanam is ready to play the lead after a long time. He played the hero in Arai En 305il Kadavul.

Maryada Ramanna is set two warring families and the way the last heir of 1 of the families leads to the other’s house by accident. The film have been remade earlier in Kannada as Maryade Ramanna and in Bengali as Faande Poriya Boga Kaande Re. It was recently remade in Hindi as Son of Sardaar, starring Ajay Devgn and Sonakshi Sinha.

Santhanam could also be playing the lead together with Power Star Srnivasan in his maiden production ‘Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya’ and may be a part of the ‘Settai’, the remake of ‘Delhi Belly’.