Director Sanjay Bharathi recently thanked Kamal Haasan's Vikram team. Here's why

Lokesh Kanagaraj's Vikram surely is the talk of the town. The theatres screening the Kamal Haasan-starrer are packed to the rafters and now we hear that the film has got one of the biggest openings for a Kamal Haasan film. Even as the team is flooded with wishes from all the quarters, director Sanjay Bharathi took to his social media page to thank the team for giving an opportunity to his father Santhana Bharathi to act in the film. He congratulated the whole team and said that there were no words to express his feelings.

The Dhanusu Raasi Neyargale shared on his social media page, "A big thank you sir @ikamalhaasan and brother @Dir_Lokesh for giving my dad an opportunity to act in #vikram No words to express this feeling and a huge congratulationsssss on the box office success Thank you @RKFI @turmericmediaTM And the whole team God bless #upuli 💯💯 (sic)."

Kamal Haasan and Santhana Bharathi have worked together in a number of films like Michael Madana Kama Rajan, Anbe Sivam and Mumbai Express to name a few. Santhana Bharathi had also directed Kamal Haasan in Mahanadhi, Kadamai Kanniyam Kattupadu and Guna. Interestingly, all three films were directed by Kamal Haasan's production house. Their friendship dates back to many years.

Vikram has Kamal Haasan playing the titular character Vikram. The film has Vijay Sethupathi and Fahadh Faasil sharing screen space with the Ulaganayagan and Suriya in a special appearance in the film. The rest of the star cast includes Narain, Arjun Das, Kalidas Jayaram, Gayathrie Shankar, Chemban Jose Vinod and Girish Gangadharan to name a few. Music for the film is by Anirudh Ravichander and the songs have become huge hits. In fact, the song Pathala Pathala has become one of the most viewed songs on YouTube in 24 hours. The lyrics for the song were penned by Kamal Haasan himself, who also sang the peppy number.