Chiyaan Vikram’s 61st film has been titled Thangalaan and it would be released by Pa Ranjith. A short video to announce the title shows Vikram as a village leader who seemingly goes head to head with the British. He is wearing a loin cloth for most part of the teaser and holding a tall cane in his hand. Short glimpses of Malavika and Parvathy are also seen. Vikram was last seen as Adithya Karikalan, the crown prince and the commander of Northern troops in Sundara Chola’s reign, in Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan. Based on author Kalki Krishnamurthy’s 1955 Tamil novel of the same name, the film tells the story of the early days of Arulmozhivarman, (played by Jayam Ravi) one of the most powerful kings in the south who went on to become the great Chola emperor Rajaraja Chola I in the 10th century.