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Kangana Ranaut to play J Jayalalithaa onscreen

| @indiablooms | Mar 23, 2019, at 11:59 am

Mumbai, Mar 23 (IBNS): Actress Kangana Ranaut will essay the role of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister late J Jayalalithaa in the latter's upcoming biopic.

The biopic has been written by KV Vijayendra Prasad and directed by AL Vijay.

The film will be released in two languages- Tamil and Hindi- titled as Thalaivi and Jaya.

Film critic Taran Adarsh tweeted, "Kangana Ranaut to play Jayalalithaa... Biopic will be made in two languages. Titled #Thalaivi in Tamil and #Jaya in Hindi... Directed by AL Vijay... Written by KV Vijayendra Prasad [#Baahubali and #Manikarnika]... Produced by Vishnu Vardhan Induri and Shaailesh R Singh."

Jayalalithaa, who served five terms as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, died in 2016 at the age of 68.

Before joining politics, she was a top actress in the Tamil film industry.

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