Following the commencement Darbar's second schedule from May 29 at Mumbai, actor Sriman has joined the cast. Unable to contain the excitement that he'll be sharing the screen space with Rajinikanth for the first time, Sriman took it to twitter and announced, " After 19 years got a role again in Dir MURUGADASS SIR FILM,  and for the first time in my film career got opportunity to work with the LEGEND our one & only “THALAIVAR” SUPERSTAR, happy got registered in DOP Santhosh Jee’s lens, thx to LYCA & SPECIAL THX TO Dir MURUGADASS SIR"

As we all have learnt, director AR Murugadoss will be helming the film and Nayanthara is the female lead. Bankrolled by Lyca Productions, Darbar also features Nivetha Thomas, Yogi Babu, Bollywood actors Prateik Babbar and Jatin Sarna.

Post Thalabathi, Santhosh Shivan is crank the camera for a Rajinikanth film, while Sreekar Prasad will be handling the editing of Darbar. This will be Rajini's first movie as a cop, after Pandian which released in the year 1992.