KALAMKAVAL ACTOR JOINS ARASAN

JIBIN Gopinath, who is best known for films like Dies Irae and the Mammootty-starrer Kalamkaval, is the latest addition to join the cast of Vetri Maaran’s Arasan.

- VIVEK SANTHOSH

The upcoming gangster drama, headlined by Silambarasan TR and featuring Vijay Sethupathi, is set within the filmmaker’s Vada Chennai universe and is currently being shot in Chennai.

The opportunity, Jibin says, arrived quite unexpectedly. “I was in Trivandrum when Arasan’s makeup artist Ranjith Am-bady called about a Tamil film, but didn’t reveal any details. Almost immediately after, an associate director reached out, and when I asked who the director was, he said Vetri Maaran sir. I was genuinely stunned, and it felt so surreal. Landing a Vetri sir film is the kind of opportunity you don’t even dare to dream about,” he says. Within a week, everything moved quickly, and he found himself on set, still trying to take it all in.