Here's what Kamal Haasan said after watching the final cut of Vikram, directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj

Ulaganayagan Kamal Haasan, seems to be quite convinced and excited about his latest offering, Vikram. During the trailer and audio release of the film, Vishwaroopam editor Mahesh Narayanan revealed that Kamal Haasan was quite convinced with the final cut of the film, and had put his reaction in a simple word, 'adipoli', which translates to 'awesome'. He congratulated Lokesh at the event stating that such an appreciation was not easy to get, that too from Kamal Haasan.

Vikram is billed as an action thriller revolving around gangs dealing with drugs. The film stars Kamal Haasan along with Vijay Sethupathi and Fahadh Faasil. The rest of the star cast includes Antony Verghese, Narain, Kalidas Jayaram, Arjun Das, Gayathrie Shankar, Shanvi Srivastava,Shivani Narayanan, Chemban Vinod Jose, Sampath Ram and Hareesh Peradi. Suriya has made a special appearance in the film and the latest we hear is that Lokesh Kanagaraj, too, has faced the camera.In fact, the team of Vikram had also managed to keep the presence of Suriya in the film a top secret. It was only during the audio launch of the film that Lokesh Kanagaraj confirmed Suriya's presence in the film.

Cinematography is by Girish Gangadharan and editing is by Philomin Raj. Music for the film is by Anirudh Ravichander.Vikram marks Anirudh's second collaboration with Kamal Haasan after Indian 2.

In the meantime, the makers also revealed the title for the Hindi and Telugu version of the film as Vikram Hitlist. The film is all set to hit screens on June 3 and the digital rights of the film have been snapped by Disney + Hotstar and the satellite rights by Star Vijay. As part of the film's promotions, the team had designed posters for locomotive trains across India in collaboration with the Southern Railways. Vikram NFTs were launched at the Cannes Film Festival 2022.

Interestingly, Vikram is also the title of Kamal’s 1966 espionage thriller. However, there is no connection between the two films.