SAMEERA STILL THE FIRST CHOICE FOR AJITH

Though gautham menon opted out of ajith's project and director saran stepped in for the shivaji productions film titled Asal,the choice of sameera reddy to star opposite to Ajith's remains intact According to insiders,after Gautham's exit,Shivaji productions considered three directors,Vishnu who gave Ajith's recent super hit Billa,S.J suriya whose Valli with ajith was a run away hit and murugadas whose Dheena gave ajith the title THALA.since Vishnu was busy with saravam and suryah with his directorial venture puli in Telugu and murugadas was not ready with a subject for Ajith,the film was taken up by sharan who has also given hits with the star in the past.Apparently,it was saran who had registered the title Asal with the producers council for one of his upcoming films