Director Venkat Prabhu had announced a while back that his upcoming film, Maanaadu, will roll into production soon with STR playing the lead. To be produced by Suresh Kamatchi’s V House Productions, the film has been a highly anticipated and exciting venture ever since it was announced last year along with the news that composer Yuvan Shankar Raja is scoring the music. Now, a video of Simbu has been released where he is seen holding the script and reading it while the background theme from his blockbuster, Manmadhan, is being played and has left the flamboyant star’s fans ecstatic.

Touted to be an action political thriller, Maanaadu is Venkat Prabhu’s ninth directorial and includes Kalyani Priyadarshan playing the female lead alongside veteran filmmaker Bharathiraja and Daniel Annie Pope in important supporting roles. The project also has a super talented crew among whom are Praveen K. L. taking care of editing, Rajeevan for art direction, Stunt Silva for stunts and costume design by Vasuki Bhaskar. Simbu's fans have been waiting for the film to kick off for sometime; especially after the star returned from a month long stay in London where he was working on getting his physique toned down for his role. STR's new look was first seen during the wedding of his younger brother, Kuralarasan, with the pictures of the actor going on to trend virally on social media in quick time.

Check out the new video of Simbu reading the Maanaadu script below: