Mangatha was not made with ajith in venkat prabhu's mind

Ajith's 50th film Mankatha is hurtling towards the release. Recently the audio was released and it turns tobe a big hit.


Initially when the film was planned, Ajith was not even thought of, says Venkat ''Ajith was never on my agenda when I wrote the first draft of the script. I kept my usual gang of boys in mind while writing my characters. Initially I considered Vivek Oberoi for the central character, but that didn’t work out.''


''It was my good friend, actor Vaibhav, who suggested that the script needed a big hero to pull it off. Around the same time I got a call from Ajith sir, who congratulated me on my new movie and asked if I had finalised the lead protagonist. I said, ‘Not yet’.''


''He expressed his desire to perform a role similar to the character Heath Ledger had played in The Dark Knight. I was taken aback, since my lead hero’s role was akin to what he’d described.''


''When I told him that here also there was a negative role, his first reaction was, ‘What is it? If I like it, why don’t I do it?’ That’s how Thala came on board and now the project has gone to a mammoth scale,” was the big revelation Venkat Prabhu made at the press gathering of Mankatha that took place in the city.