After scoring a super hit with 2.0, director Shankar has decided to make another sequel. This time, it was for his 1995 blockbuster Indian. Titled Indian 2, this project was launched earlier this year. While Kamal Haasan was retained as the lead actor, Kajal Aggarwal has been roped in as the lead actress.

After a few days of shoot, the team decided to keep it aside for a while. The first reason for the halt is Kamal, who got busy in his political works for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The second one is that Lyca Productions, which is producing the flick, was not ready to give the budget quoted by Shankar.

Left with no choice, Shankar approached popular production house Reliance Entertainment to save his project. Apparently, Reliance agreed to do that. We just have to see whether Reliance will entirely take over the project or co-produce the film with Lyca.

After 2.0, maverick director Shankar is currently busy with the works of his upcoming film Indian 2 which stars Kamal Haasan and Kajal Aggarwal in the lead roles. The shoot was started in a grand style last month. But the latest we hear is that all works of the film are halted currently.

According to the sources, Lyca productions, which is producing the films, has asked Shankar to give the exact budget estimate and stick to it. But Shankar has apparently said that he can’t estimate budget as such as the film can demand more future resulting in more budget.

But Lyca is not ready to proceed in such way as they got into deep losses following such a way for their last film, 2.0. The film, commercially, was a disaster in Tamil and got a loss around Rs. 25 crores in Telugu. Thus, the future of Indian 2 is under the stakes now.

Popular director Shankar has been working hard on the promotions of his new movie Robo 2 Point O. Soon after this, he would collaborate with Ulaganayagan Kamal Haasan for an exciting project titled Indian 2 which is the sequel of the film Indian that released in Telugu with the title Bharateeyudu. The movie is having great expectations as the combination of Kamal and Shankar delivered the big hit.

Set work for #Indian2 started..

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— Ramesh Bala (@rameshlaus) November 12, 2018

The latest buzz is that the makers wanted to begin the shooting for the film soon after the release of 2 Point O. As part of the preparation, the makers started erecting a special set for the shoot of the film. The pooja ceremony of the same happened in Chennai recently. The film unit already began the pre-production work and the details of the complete cast and crew will be out soon.

Kajal Aggarwal is confirmed to play the female lead in the film.