Kamal Haasan has opted out of ‘19th step’, in which he was supposed to play a martial arts guru to Asin. It looks like the offer has fallen on a man widely considered the most experimental actor after Kamal and he is non other than our Ciyaan Vikram.

Yes! Vikram, on completing work for ‘Raavana’, will take on this small however a powerful role in the movie, which is being directed by Bharatbala. AR Rahman scores the music of the film, which also starts the Japanese superstar Tadanobu Asano. Walt Disney produces the
film, which is being written by MT Vasudevan Nair.

Bharatbala is said to be reworking on the script for this film of which the shooting will begin soon. Kamal Haasan reportedly opted out of the project as he wanted his role to have a few changes. Well, Ulaganayagan is for ever and a day a unique thinker!.

Vikram had heard the script from M T Vasudevan Nair a few years back, and was initially very keen to do the role of the ‘Asan’ or guru, who teaches Asin, a princess, the art of Kalaripayattu. The star was offered a price that was almost twice what he gets for doing a Tamil film. The film would have been his big ticket to international cinema as Walt Disney were the co-producers.

As per our sources,Vikram is walking a tightrope over his earlier commitments. Mani Ratnam’s Raavan has been delayed, and it looks like a good chunk of the film is being re-shot after Santosh Sivan replaced Manikandan as the cameraman. Vikram has to immediately start work on producer Mohan Natarajan’s film with KS Ravikumar as the director, a project he had signed more than two years back.He also has another long-pending commitment with director Selva Raghavan and producer Ramesh to do a film. Till he completes these films, it looks like Hollywood has to wait!